Vent Normalization
Ardea — Tue, 02/03/2009 - 18:53
If you are on Vent... You should do this!
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
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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.
Added this into the Handbook.
Aidin — Thu, 03/12/2009 - 14:48Added this into the Handbook.
Edited to remove my nerd
Ardea — Wed, 02/04/2009 - 11:41Edited to remove my nerd rage. Maybe I came across harsher than I meant to...
Oh, I don't know. Sounded
Fjork — Thu, 02/05/2009 - 09:06Oh, I don't know. Sounded about right to me...... ^_^
I was only saying if you wanted to make a book-page about it you should yank the nerd-rage (since the book pages are for those 'exploring' the new stuffz, and thus less responsible for being n00bish)
Just set up my vent with your
Dragon — Wed, 02/04/2009 - 08:56Just set up my vent with your specs so I'll test it at home later and fiddle with it
Thanks. I knew most of that,
Fjork — Wed, 02/04/2009 - 07:46Thanks. I knew most of that, but.....
Still useful information. Book page maybe? (After a rewrite of course.)
talk about
starstalker — Tue, 02/03/2009 - 23:33Wow, talk about bitching (sorry, couldn't think of a nicer way to put it). =P Did you really just tag it under everything?
=p Yea, it's rare but I do it
Ardea — Wed, 02/04/2009 - 07:02=p Yea, it's rare but I do it too.
Fixed... I was sure what to tag it as so better safe than sorry.
/signed Anyone who has some
Dufe — Tue, 02/03/2009 - 19:04/signed
Anyone who has some self-indulgent or self-righteous reason for not doing this really needs to get over themselves and start saving their ears some trouble.
Read me!
Ardea — Tue, 02/03/2009 - 18:53Read me!