lets set a uniform microphone gain level!

[stille_nacht]

unfortunately, everyone has different gear :/, soemthing that should have been obvious to me but wasnt...


this is a better idea

Just give us the ability to raise and lower the incoming voice volume of each person in the party.

i dont care if their sound quality degrades so long as i can make out their voice.

[Bobthesponge]

Great idea. Just as soon as you send everyone the same microphone and the same system to hook it up to and guarantee the connection quality we can do this.

[Rydin_Dirtay]

Well, everyone's mic is different, everyone's sound card is different, speakers different, so I don't see how it's workable to have a set level.

[Gkar]

Well, everyone's mic is different, everyone's sound card is different, speakers different, so I don't see how it's workable to have a set level.

Yup. Plus it seems the way the chat software works is flawed. More than once I've been in a group where someone claimed to be able to hear everyone but X well and yet everyone else heard X well.

What we need are individual volume sliders for each person in group

[Bolo_Grubb]

Just give us the ability to raise and lower the incoming voice volume of each person in the party.

[Beld]

Yup. Plus it seems the way the chat software works is flawed. More than once I've been in a group where someone claimed to be able to hear everyone but X well and yet everyone else heard X well.

What we need are individual volume sliders for each person in group

^^^

This, not hearing someone is not as bad as the one who sounds like a 150 db rock concert when they talk.

At least if I can't hear someone, I can still maintain my hearing....whereas the other way, I usually feel like I have cotton in my ears for about 2 min after I get my headset off, or get the volume cranked way down.

[Taters214]

Just give us the ability to raise and lower the incoming voice volume of each person in the party.

This. /signed

Not only could we raise the volume on people we can hear, but we could lower the volume on people we don't want to hear (but don't want to squelch, just in case they decide to type something). For instance, the person who doesn't use push-to-talk and constantly has ambient sounds coming through his mic; also on that list is the player who proceeds to jabber on ceaselessly about non-quest related topics that you'd rather just not have to listen to. :-)

[Kominalito]

inbedded software audio limiter. solved.

[articwarrior]

Yup. Plus it seems the way the chat software works is flawed. More than once I've been in a group where someone claimed to be able to hear everyone but X well and yet everyone else heard X well.

What we need are individual volume sliders for each person in group

yep, been wanting this for a long time, I wonder why we haven't gotten them yet... It's awful when you have to turn your sound/music settings to 1% just to hear the group leader who is rather quiet but everyone else can hear fine. personally, I set my mic to 50% and it works just fine... well, except the fact that my mic isn't comparable with ddo.

[Bodic]

ok with a my $15 mic people could hear me just as good as with my $40 one.

Step1: test your Mic settings outside of game.
Step2: Test mic settings in Game alone.
Step 3: Test with friend in Game that can normally hear you (insure you remove ALL feeed back of your voice to your speakers)
Step4: repeat step3 with someone that could barely hear you before.

It is my findings that I can either come across really soft to someone, or I blow out their eardrums. Fro the most part I am good to go with 85-90% of the populace. I do have in game set higher than in Vent I know that much.

[Bodic]

inbedded software audio limiter. solved.

a limter will not solve the issue when in some cases an amp is required

[Narmolanya]

Just give us the ability to raise and lower the incoming voice volume of each person in the party.

This is what needs to happen and it's long overdue.

As far as uniform it dosnt work like that as other have said. On one of my computers I have it down to 15 or I distort and blow everyones ears out while on my other I have it all the way up.

[Kominalito]

a limter will not solve the issue when in some cases an amp is required

a limiter makes quiet sounds very loud and loud sounds leveled when set properly. its the fundamental tool in mastering. its what is used to ramp percieved volume in music engineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

[djensow]

Limiters doesn't raise the volume of low amplitude sounds, it does however compress the peaks so you can raise the overall amplitude without amplifying the peaks.

There was another good suggestion around here somewhere suggesting to use some kind of built-in normalization, not sure how doable it is in real time though but i like the idea.

[Disavowed]

Try Friday night drunken raid runs and see how that works out. Especially when the Beergirl is totally trashed. Freaking eardrums break as she yells Krumrah into the mic.