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necros
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States85 Posts
January 21 2010 01:35 GMT
#1
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.
____________________


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


Q u o t e:
Edit:

What the settings do - Copied and pasted from page 8

Gain
How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY *%*%ty.

Attack
How fast volume change will happen. example: setting this to 500 means that any-
thing coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. for vent this should
be set as low as possible.

Release
how fast the compressor stops changing things. not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold
This sets the point where we actually start changing what�s coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occaisional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio
How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department.
If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4)... the higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay
Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal.
sc2 yay!
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
January 21 2010 01:36 GMT
#2
I just started using vent and this could help a ton so I will try it out. Thanks!
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11567 Posts
January 21 2010 01:39 GMT
#3
Oh wow I have been looking for something like this. It's so annoying having everything on different levels T_T
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Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
January 21 2010 01:40 GMT
#4
Random thread..but very useful! I just started using vent a little while ago so this will hep quite a bit!
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Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
January 21 2010 01:43 GMT
#5
I just tested it out and it's working very nicely. I turned my gain down to 9 but I'm sure that depends on other factors and varies by computer.
necros
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States85 Posts
January 21 2010 03:21 GMT
#6
On January 21 2010 10:40 Megalisk wrote:
Random thread..but very useful! I just started using vent a little while ago so this will hep quite a bit!


Not random. I needed a thread to show my friends that was on public forums, and tl is very public and easy to use
sc2 yay!
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
January 22 2010 04:03 GMT
#7
In any case, thanks a lot for posting. I'm showing this thread to my clan members from SCC now.
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 22 2010 04:09 GMT
#8
Very nice, I didn't know about this...Thanks!
Deleted User 50491
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
721 Posts
January 22 2010 05:26 GMT
#9
awesome bookmarked
Fishball
Profile Joined December 2005
Canada4788 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-22 05:38:56
January 22 2010 05:38 GMT
#10
I remember seeing this originally from the WoW forums many years ago. Very helpful indeed, since there are so many kids that like to yell...
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RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
June 10 2010 05:42 GMT
#11
This bump seems appropriate, I have been on TL vent a lot and the users seemed to have jumped up quite a bit. I think this is great for anyone to set up it makes it so you don't have to special effect people as often, and everyone sounds roughly similar in sound.

Great OP.
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GinX
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom13 Posts
September 17 2010 08:18 GMT
#12
informative information even for those of us who have used vent before but never realised what certain things do
richard
Snicharn
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden1 Post
November 09 2010 19:15 GMT
#13
On January 21 2010 10:35 necros 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.


Thank you so much kind sir! You have saved my ears from my very very loud friends.

Aku Soku Zan
necros
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States85 Posts
August 05 2014 07:27 GMT
#14
met some people tonight that could definitely use a good look at this thread.
sc2 yay!
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