Ventrilo Tips
From Game Theory
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Getting Ventrilo
Ventrilo is availible from ventrilo.com.
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Configuring Ventrilo
<Game Theory> server information can be found at [1] (private forum).
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Disabling Microphone Passthrough (Windows)
If when your mic is live, you transmit sound coming from your computer (for example, WoW combat noises), this is relatively easy to fix.
- Double-click the volume (speaker) icon in your system tray.
- Click on Options > Properties
- Click Recording (under "Adjust Volume For"), make sure that all the various device boxes under it are checked, and hit okay.
- Check the "Select" box under "Microphone", assuring that nothing else is checked.
- Congratulations, you no longer annoy your guildmates with "I need more rage" in the background of your demands for healing.
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Normalizing Ventrilo Output (Windows only)
Some people are quiet. Some people are loud. Some people change from day to day and minute to minute. This fixes that.
- Open up the Setup menu.
- Make sure the Use DirectSound box is checked.
- Click to SFX button.
- Making sure that the Type selection is on Sound Effects, highlight Compressor in the right column, and click the <- Add button.
- Open up Properties for the Compressor, and adjust the settings.
- Gain determines how loud people are. Play with this to get things sounding right to you (the 5-15 range seems to suit most people best)
- Shift Attack all the way down to 0.01.
- Move Release down to around 500 (don't feel like you need to be exact).
- Threshold should be around -30.
- Ratio should be maxed out at 100.
- Pre-delay should be at the maximum 4.0.
- Hit OK until you get rid of all the menus and enjoy your ventrilo all over again.
