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uploaded sounds are very faint
SuezanneC Baskerville
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05-06-2007 22:53
There are settings for Distance Factor and Rolloff Factor in the Preferences / Audio & Video tab.

If you slide the Rolloff Factor all the way to the left, you will hear pretty much every sound in the entire sim.

From: someone
Distance Factor:
Moving this slider to the right decreases the distance at which you hear sound effects (e.g., you'll no longer hear sounds that are further away).

Rolloff Factor:
Moving this slider to the right causes sounds to decrease in volume more rapidly as they move away from you. Moving it to the left causes sounds to remain louder as they move away from you.


http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=335

Slide both of those all the way to the left and I suspect you will find you have plenty of sound. ;)

Also, you can set your wind, footsteps, and UI volumes down low, which will make the wav files people upload louder in comparison - then adjust the sound effects slider to get the right balance between all the SL wind, footsteps, and UI sounds and the other sounds from your computer.

Audio and Video stream volumes are independent of the other SL sounds mentioned above.

Maybe that will help.
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Nina Stepford
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05-07-2007 05:52
you have motivated me to tweak audio pref now.
Rusty Satyr
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05-07-2007 12:29
Thanks for the tips SuezanneC!

(I just wish that would work for everyone in my parcels... not just me)
Fletcher Rodgers
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Join date: 15 Oct 2006
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05-08-2007 04:53
All of that advice is very helpful and thankyou. But I am making gestures. To all those posters who assumed people uploading sounds are using scripts could you please reconsider the problem from a gesture point of view.

The sounds I upload are quiter than other sounds, my effects volume is at max, other gestures/sounds are louder than mine. My uploaded WAV's are PCM format, 16-bit/44.1 kHz/mono, I have expirimented with different sample rates at upload time, I have max'ed the volume (compressed/normalised etc) in my wav editor, nothing I do makes my uploaded sounds louder.

Thanks for any help.
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