[hpsdr] varying teamspeak audio levels

[Dr. Jim Rothwell]

Hi,

Since the teamspeak program is recorded, it can easily be processed 
offline afterwards
to even out the widely ranging audio levels. There is a free program 
available that works
in a radically different manner than the "normalize" function or audio 
compressors you
may be familiar with. 

It's called Levelator and is a free download: 
http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator.
Save your audio program as a WAV file, then drag and drop it on the 
Levelator icon. The resulting
file will be saved in the same directory as the original with "output" 
appended to its name.

Among other techie things, we do audio post production for film and tv 
and have found this
program quite useful.

73's
Jim Rothwell
www.RainbowSound.us


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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:07:41 -0500
>From: AA8K73 GMail <aa8k73 at gmail.com>
>To: HPSDR <hpsdr at openhpsdr.org>
>Subject: [hpsdr] Teamspeak3 recording levels
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>This is a response to an off-list message that
>I thought several might be interested in.
>
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>Yes, the audio levels on TeamSpeak3 were
>initially varied.  This was especially annoying
>when someone accidentally "puffed" on their
>microphone and the Automatic Voice Gain Control
>feature of TeamSpeak3 turned them way down and
>had a slow recovery time.
>
>We tried having the Automatic Voice Gain Control
>turned off, but the wide range of audio was even
>more annoying, so we now recommend enabling the
>AVGC option on Settings, Option, Capture.  Most
>have enabled it, so there are only a couple that
>are still extremely loud and quiet.  Make sure
>that TeamSpeak Capture Echo Reduction and Echo
>Cancellation are disabled, as we use Push-To-Talk.
>
>The long AVGC recovery is still irritating.
>So far, I have only found the agc_level and
>agc_max_gain parameters.
>
>
>The "dings" in the audio occur when someone has
>sent a text chat message to the group.  I have
>been recording with the Sound Pack Volume 25 dB
>down from the voice level.  I now set them
>35 dB down from voice.  Let me know if the
>notifications still interfere with our voices
>and I will disable them entirely.
>
>
>Thanks for listening,
>
>Mike - AA8K
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