VENTRILO INFORMATION

Download Ventrilo Client for your appropriate system.

Order or Buy a headset w/ microphone. (optional for listening, required for talking as a standing mic provides too much interferance. ) No, you are not required to talk, but someday you may want to! You can also listen through your computer speakers – until you have one, and then just use the microphone to speak. (I have the headset around my neck- to hold the microphone there. Make sure to get one for the computer, and not for a regular house phone (they should have a double jack (2 plugs - 1 for mic, 1 for headset). They should range from $15+ and up.

INSTALLATION GUIDE

Open Ventrilo, for new users - Click on the top arrow and it will take you to the SETUP USER screen
CLick NEW and add your screen name and then click OK
Next on the Connection screen, you will need to click the ARROW button to the right of SERVER to add YQLIF:
Click the NEW button and name it YQLIF Or Attica then click OK, next enter the following information as seen below

Click connect and you're on!

To Adjust your sound input

Click "Setup"
Use Push To Talk Hotkey" is checked and setup your hotkey. Press the key on the keyboard you would like to activate you're speech
For those who have trouble hearing others you might change your INBOUND amplifier to see if that helps :

Vent Normalization

Vent Normalization makes everyones voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ear's out or have difficulty hearing people. 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

*Note - Mac's dont' have this option as of yet = (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 *%*%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 shouldbe 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.

 

Troubleshooting

Unable to connect? Double check your address, port number, and the capitalization on your username, and spelling of the password. If you are not an administrator, make sure your name is put into the "Nickname" field- and not the User name field. Also verify that any firewalls you have allow traffic over port listed above. Remember to check network and desktop firewalls.

I can hear other people but they can't hear me! Check your windows microphone settings and select “boost”