9/12/07

OH GOD STOP YELLING! A guide to normalizing vent

People talking too quiet pissing you off? Deafened from some jerk on the other end with mic levels jacked up to 11 screaming in your ear? I was too!

Here's how you can fix it!

1. Crack open vent. Click on the "Setup" button.
2. Under the "Voice" tab, check off the checkbox under "Output Device" that says "Use DirectSound"
3. Once it's checked, push the little "SFX" button beside it
4. Under the "Sound Effects" radio button, add the "Compressor" option to your list of sound effects in use. It should move it over to the "current" side.
5. Select "compressor" from the list, and then push the "properties" button and a new box pops up.

Use the following settings:
Gain: 15 (this is basically your volume, mines 15, but i know people that have it at -15, play with it)
Attack: 0.01 (all the way left)
Release: 498
Threshold: -30
Ratio: 100
Pre-delay: 4

Save all your settings as you exit back to the main menu.

You can play around with the gain to adjust your volume levels, but now everyone should be the same for you.

3 comments:

Leejin said...

Sorry guys. I didn't know I was the jerk with the loud mic. My bad Melime. I've already normalized my Vent. Happy Hunting, and I'll see you guys soon.

Leejin said...

That above post was me, Leejin..sorry again.

Melime said...

Oh I wasn't referring to you! Like I said, my vent is normalized, so I didn't realize you were louder than anyone else :)