peace28
07-07-2008, 05:20 PM
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
What the settings do:
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.
Like Vent's text to speech feature but want more voices?
Download and install the Microsoft Speech SDK and re-start vent.
Download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&DisplayLang=en
be sure to choose "SpeechSDK51. Better voices than the default "Microsoft Sam"
Find out your sweet spot for voice activation:
In Setup under the voices tab you'll see a test / monitor area. This allows you to test your mic hear what you sound like and fine tune your voice activation levels.
If you "Monitor" yourself you'll see in the box to the right of it number values streaming by. As you speak into the mic you'll see that number jump up. You'll want to set your voice activation level around that number you're seeing in the "monitor" section when you speak. It can vary from person to person / mic / soundcard / levels / etc.
Silence time: I'd recommend a silence time of either 1.0 seconds or 1.5 seconds. Longer than that it keeps your mic open probably for too much longer after you finish speaking.
Overlay feature:
Vent also has a built in "overlay" which can show you v etc. It does work in most games (inc. CoD4 & UT3) and other apps so you can keep an eye on vent events if you're in game if you really want to. Check it out in Setup on the "Overlay" tab. IMO it's kind of ugly and takes up too much space but hey someone may really love it. Play with it and decide on your own.
G15 Keyboard:
Also note that Vent has built-in support for the G15 lcd screen -- no need to download a separate buggy app. It's on the global tab make sure g15 support is enabled if you have that keyboard.
Each soft button displays something different as well.
1) Main status page. What channel who's xmitting last event (disappears in 15 seconds connection status Recording Ping --XMIT--. Also shows sound and mic mute states.
2) List users in your channel. If more then 8 it cycles thru banks of 8 every 2 seconds.
3) Last 4 semi-important events.
4) Last 4 "chat" window messages.
I went through all 8 pages just to make sure this wasen't posted yet. Hope it helps the PC players out :D
sticky this if you find it helpful so it doesn't get lost.
____________________
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
What the settings do:
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.
Like Vent's text to speech feature but want more voices?
Download and install the Microsoft Speech SDK and re-start vent.
Download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&DisplayLang=en
be sure to choose "SpeechSDK51. Better voices than the default "Microsoft Sam"
Find out your sweet spot for voice activation:
In Setup under the voices tab you'll see a test / monitor area. This allows you to test your mic hear what you sound like and fine tune your voice activation levels.
If you "Monitor" yourself you'll see in the box to the right of it number values streaming by. As you speak into the mic you'll see that number jump up. You'll want to set your voice activation level around that number you're seeing in the "monitor" section when you speak. It can vary from person to person / mic / soundcard / levels / etc.
Silence time: I'd recommend a silence time of either 1.0 seconds or 1.5 seconds. Longer than that it keeps your mic open probably for too much longer after you finish speaking.
Overlay feature:
Vent also has a built in "overlay" which can show you v etc. It does work in most games (inc. CoD4 & UT3) and other apps so you can keep an eye on vent events if you're in game if you really want to. Check it out in Setup on the "Overlay" tab. IMO it's kind of ugly and takes up too much space but hey someone may really love it. Play with it and decide on your own.
G15 Keyboard:
Also note that Vent has built-in support for the G15 lcd screen -- no need to download a separate buggy app. It's on the global tab make sure g15 support is enabled if you have that keyboard.
Each soft button displays something different as well.
1) Main status page. What channel who's xmitting last event (disappears in 15 seconds connection status Recording Ping --XMIT--. Also shows sound and mic mute states.
2) List users in your channel. If more then 8 it cycles thru banks of 8 every 2 seconds.
3) Last 4 semi-important events.
4) Last 4 "chat" window messages.
I went through all 8 pages just to make sure this wasen't posted yet. Hope it helps the PC players out :D
sticky this if you find it helpful so it doesn't get lost.