Ventrilo > Normalization

Here are my normalization notes for Ventrilo.

• Mumble does this automatically.

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Props to Thrux-Darkspear for his forum post a long while back. The post is gone after Blizzard made forum changes some time ago.

In Summary ∞

• Launch Ventrilo
• Go to Setup
• Enable Direct Sound (top-right)
• Click the SFX button
• On the right-hand side, 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

• Click OK three times to return to the main Ventrilo screen.

Other settings to consider ∞

• [_] Use Push To Talk Hotkey (PTT Mode)
• [_] Play Key Clicks
• Silence Time: [1.0 seconds]

• Sensitivity: 10

I also turn all the audio notifications off. They’re lame.

With Pictures ∞

• 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

6) Click OK three times to return to the main Ventrilo screen.

An explanation of the settings ∞

Props to Healshot from the atlusonline.com forums. The source was either moved or removed.

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 anything 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 whats 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 occaisionaly 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.