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June 25, 2007 by Foton at 6:13 am • Filed Under Etc. 
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I found some actual, confirmed, useful information on the World of Warcraft forums: Ventrilo Normalization.

Thrux of the Darkspear realm wrote:

Vent Normalization makes every bodies voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won’t blow your ear’s out or have difficulty hearing people.
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Here’s how:

- Go to Setup

- Enable Direct Sound

- Select the SFX Button

- Select Compressor and click Add.

- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings

- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)

- Attack = 0.01

- Release = Around 500

- Threshold = Around -30

- Ratio = 100

- Pre delay = 4.0

I tried this last week and can report that for me, with my guild’s Ventrilo, it worked like a charm. We have this one Canadian guildmember who is prone to deepthroating his microphone so that we’ll have to rip off our headsets and shout “GODDAMMIT” in real life — plus, we have a couple of low-talkers who, for all we know, are trying to cyber us on Vent.

After making the above adjustments to my Vent setup, both extremes were comfortably audible. And no, it wasn’t cyber.



Comments

9 Responses to “More Head”

  1. Heterosexual Gnome Mage on June 25th, 2007 9:56 am

    thinks you should check your email.

  2. Gheist on June 25th, 2007 1:12 pm

    Oh, I have been looking for something like this for freaking ages, with some tards on vent they can’t seem to grasp that shouting hurts others ears.

    Cheers for ze pickup on that one :)

  3. Michael on June 25th, 2007 11:42 pm

    Compression? Noice.

    Can we get a stereo expander, pitch correction, shelving EQ, and possibly a convolution reverb too? :)

  4. Heather on June 26th, 2007 1:48 am

    Woot! Mailing this page to my husband; he’ll be quite pleased. Thanks for posting.

  5. Mena on June 26th, 2007 3:10 am

    Tried this in a raid and it works great. But, sometimes we play music in the background, guess it would make that normalized too huh?

  6. nordee on June 26th, 2007 5:24 am

    @Mena

    Turn the threshold down until it doesn’t hear the music.

  7. celerie on June 26th, 2007 8:21 am

    i shared this with my guild and they have not yet stopped thanking me. so, thanks. =)

  8. Laura on June 26th, 2007 2:08 pm

    Thanks Foton! So awesome..shared with guild, gave you credit. :)

  9. Rick on June 27th, 2007 9:06 am

    Seinfeld reference with the “low talker”? Very funny episode :)

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