Vent, to me, is as annoying as it is useful. I would like to solicit comments as to what your common settings are. You see, I can hear everyone fine, I just cannot talk. Maybe that's a good thing. At any rate, since I know you are all on bended knee awaiting to hear the eloquent (grammatically) yet retarded (phonetically) voice of yours truly, please tell me some of your basic Vent (and WoW voice) settings. I know I'm probably missing something simple, but, such is life. Seriously, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

As always, looking forward to tonight...

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--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Your perception is not the reality, trust me, anyone who tells you anything otherwise is trying to sell you something." --Me.

This settle many of my issues with vent, although I still can't hear Coff...

http://sentinelsofshadow.com/viewthread.php?threadid=731

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I too would love to read that thread, but what am I looking for? The link sends me back to the main forum listing.

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For "Normalization" :

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

What the settings do wrote:
Code:
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.

Killa,

If you can't speak, first make sure that your microphone is working and that it is indeed an issue with Vent.

Close Vent and then:
go to start menu
click all programs
then accessories
then entertainment
then sound recorder

press the recorder button and record and play it back


If that works fine, then you need to check Vent. There's a checkbox on the bottom of the main window for mute. Oh, and if it "kinda works", make sure you set your Inbound & Outbound to no higher then 1.

I'll try that, thx Nic.

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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Your perception is not the reality, trust me, anyone who tells you anything otherwise is trying to sell you something." --Me.

TY!

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And for the love of god, if you talk a lot, get some headphones or turn your speakers WAY down. reverb from multiple people sucks ass

/agree

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agreed very much so very much so very much so very much so yah it's kinda like that