Feature Suggestion: Individual User Volume Control

[elrodvoss]

Im somewhat new to Vent and I was thinking that a nice feature to add into it would be Independent User Volume Control for each person.

Example:
If you are online with 5 people, but each person has a different "loudness", you could right click on there name and a seperate amplifier for each user. So you could make the louder people quiet and the quiet people louder.

Of course some people are using the cheap $10 microphones, while others are using there wireless/bluetooth ear pieces. This way you dont have to turn up the speakers to hear 1 person, then get blown away when someone else jumps on with a loud setup.

Any opinions?

[Prog-Rocker]

it's already built in. rt-clik on user name > misc > special effects > volume

or

you can adjust the whole server or individual channel the same way but use the compressor setting as follows:

Normalizing Volume per Server

- Right-click on ServerName
- Select Miscellaneous / Special Effects
- Select Compressor and click Add
- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings
- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be (see below)
- 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 BAD.

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.

[elrodvoss]

Cool..didnt know it would be under that. I was just looking for "volume", didnt think it would be buried.

Thanks alot.