Dubyank Posted Apr 11, 2011, 2:19 am	The 'Compressor' feature in ventrillo allows you to normalize everyone's voice level. This means that the earbreakers (such myself) will not drown out those people that are more quiet and you will never need to touch that pesky individual 'volume' adjustment ever again Happy One caveat before using it: it WILL increase the amount of CPU usage of Ventrillo as Ventrillo will have to adjust everyone's volume together. This should not be an issue for most people but if your computer struggles with LOTRO at lower settings this might not be for you. (Hat tip: Guntred) How to use it: 1) Click Setup 2) Click 'Enable Direct Sound" (if it is not already on) 3) Click SFX (Found in the upper right-hand corner) 4) Select 'Compressor' then click 'Add' 5) Select 'Compressor' again click 'Properties' 6) I use the following settings: Code: -Gain = 30 This determines how loud everyone will be. Anything higher than about 40 and people's voices will start to sound distorted -Attack = 0.01 This is how much time delay there is before the compressor kicks in. Leave this at the lowest setting. -Release = 500 Supposedly it determines how fast the compressor stops changing things. I have noticed no difference. -Threshold = -50 The point where the compressor will start adjusting volume. 0 is only the loudest people will get adjusted and -60 is everyone. -Ratio = 100 Sound below the threshold will get compressed according to this ratio. If you want some variation set this very low. If you want none, set it here. -Predelay = 4.0 Time in milliseconds that the compressor will look ahead to see what needs to be processed. Once you are done with the above, make sure that you remove any individual volume settings as individual settings override any global settings (such as the compressor) (this is a combination of information found around the web and in the ventrillo webhelp) . _________________ Sharks have a week dedicated to me. If I were to mail a letter without postage it would still get there
*Tango* Posted Apr 11, 2011, 3:15 am	Good post, I've been directing people to an article telling them to do the same thing. This should be stickied somewhere, but probably not here.
Marrkos Posted Apr 11, 2011, 5:00 am	Hope this is OK
*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Apr 11, 2011, 9:44 am	I have never got Vent to work with the client open. Maybe there ids some option i am missing. able to hear everybody / unable to talk when client open.
*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Apr 11, 2011, 10:51 am	Well .. stupid windows 7 .. run as admin ... grrrrr .... Now you can all hear my views, rantings and musings ... though i suspect vent will quickly empty
Dubyank Posted Apr 11, 2011, 4:29 pm	If you ever need any help trouble shooting with vent pm me. I have had a lot of issues with Mics, operating systems and just about any problem you can think of. My first thought about hearing but not being able to talk would be is you have the right Mic setup in the setup tab. Then it could but you gains being to low. Vent runs in the background and shouldn't have problems running behind dark wind.
Alec Burke Posted Apr 11, 2011, 5:06 pm	I initially had what sounds like the same problem as Grograt in windows Vista. If Ventrillo is not set to run in administrator mode, you need to make it the active window each time you want to talk - which of course largely defeated its use. When run as admin, you can use push to talk just fine while vent remains in the background.