[arm-allstar] Audio levels of announcements

[Jeff Savasta]

Thanks for the great explanation Doug. I have been working on this for like
a month now and it was driving me crazy. You explained it well. I am glad I
am not nuts.
I actually thought it might have been the file in rpt.conf called amplitude
ans idamplitude? I tried playing with that to no avail? Its under the morse
settings where I see it. I am now assuming that’s for morse only?

Thanks for the great tips.I will do what you say. I wonder where the other
sound files would be such as "The time is" and "Connection to" etc? Maybe I
can adjust each one?

Doug, while I got you where can I find info out about sox and also all the
setting and what they do in rpt.conf, simpleusb and radiousb that really
explains it well for this newcomer?

 I am starting to dig this Linux stuff and its been a learning curve but
has been worth every bit of it. The Pi is the neatest thing since the
proverbial sliced bread. You have done a great job with it and the hard
work is much appreciated!


Thanks so much, Jeff :)

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
>  There is no direct setting for the levels of telemetry (voice, ID, etc.)
> in Allstar. Most people find that setting the RX and TX levels properly
> results in a reasonable voice level. I say reasonable because some would
> like it to be lower. As an example if you had the TX level turned up to
> compensate for a low RX level it would make the telemetry sound louder. So
> make sure you have them set correctly.
>
> One way to change the level is to process all of the audio files to lower
> their level. I believe someone has written a script to do that??? It would
> basically run all the files voice through sox and reduce the volume. If it
> is just your local ID you want to adjust then it would be much easier. Just
> run the node-id.ul file in /etc/asterisk/local through sox to reduce the
> volume.
>
> Changing the level of each file is a rather crude way to do it and a much
> better way would be to have a parameter to do this. This is yet another
> feature that should be included in a future release. Like the echolink
> level we should have a general telemetry level. It is on our list!
>
>
>
> *73 DougWA3DSPhttp://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:25:55 -0500
> From: jeff.savasta at gmail.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: [arm-allstar] Audio levels of announcements
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> If this has already been addressed I apologize but being new to the group
> I was unsure of how to search through old posts as I am new to the group.
>
> Here is my problem, I am trying to set up my audio levels on my
> allstar/Echolink Pi node. I am aware of how to adjust the levels in Allstar
> and Echolink but can not seem to adjust the voice level of the
> announcements such as the connecting callsign,my callsign and the time. It
> seems to be extremely loud. I am going crazy on where to find the info on
> the volume adjustment file.
>
> I went into the RPT.conf file and looked there but am finding it very
> difficult to find real good documentation on these menu items so its
> difficult to get info on each file.
>
> Where am I going wrong here and did I miss something?
>
> The radio is a Kenwood with the DMK interface which is operating in Vox
> mode.
>
> All help is greatly appreciated,
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Jeff KB4JKL
>
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