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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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Edit:

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.

Copy+Pasted from http://www.prawnage.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=21342

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If you do it you hear everyone else as 1 set volume regardless of how low or high their mics actually are.

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reported for a sticky

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Heh, I was gonna say "who the hell reported this?" :P

BALLS OF STEEL

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BALLS OF STEEL

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Indeed, Sir. Indeed.

Thanks for posting this. It is working really well for me.

I'm always having to adjust people on vent when someone is super loud or inaudible. Looks like I'm through having to do that.

I think this is the most useful information I've ever seen on these forums other than Blue posts. NICE!

It shall aid in avoiding embarassing moments such as this:

http://bebo.com/watch/4272675261

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I think this is the most useful information I've ever seen on these forums other than Blue posts. NICE!

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More useful than 98% of the blue posts too, IMO.

Great info man, i had no idea you could apply an overall effect like that. Ive been just adjusting peoples volumes individually all this time.

spiffy

Just put it in. I'll have to check to see what its like tomorrow though.

Thanks, I'm always worried about someone making my ears bleed whenever I'm in vent.

Which option adjusts the volume up and down?

Dear OP,

Thank you for posting this, if it works I'll love you forever. However, could you explain what the different adjustments do? Thanks for your time.

If this works I will love you forever. I've had to restrain myself from throwing my speakers out a window on many an occassion when one idiot on vent had his mic 10x louder than everyone else.

thanks for the info - its a refreshing change to see something useful posted in these forums.

I'll be trying this out tonight and passing onto the guild if it works.

thanks again.