sonicviz

Well, I have to say after all the downgrades and bugs we have endured ever since the SL marketing push started it’s good to play with something new that WORKS!

I was playing with the voice First Look client, and though I had previously dismissed the idea of using it for music due to the encoding restrictions etc Why SL voice is inappropriate for music performance

a) was it possible
b) What did it sound like
c) would people be interested
d) what were some of the limitations and constraints for performing with it.

Why not give it a shot, nothing to lose!

So I set myself up, tp’d to a new empty sim I knew was voice enabled and plugged in.
Interesting! Lost all my stereo width, and the sound was a bit squeezed with the voice codec, but as I usually play dirty blues it sounded quite damn funky - a bit like busking in the tube with a low grade dirty amp! [which I have previously done a lot of in rl at various times]

Also the sound was very different in my monitoring headphones from my usual setup, so it took a little adjusting to play with this.

So after a quick fiddle I hit my blues group and tp a few people in with voice clients and awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay we go.
SL Voice Busking 1

SL Voice Busking 2

I jammed a couple of quick numbers out and we played with some of the settings to see where the issues are but the general consensus was … YES!

A few tips learnt from this early test:
. only the musician should be in lockdown talk mode, eveyone else in push to talk
. individuals should use the list of people button next to the voice controls to turn down everyone else so they can just hear them and turn the musician up - that is if you want to hear them I guess!
. audience is hearing positional sound now, so may need to adjust their physical and/or camera position to hear properly
. musician should turn down all other sounds in preferences, set voice to a comfortable level
. musician should set your input signal level to just below the red visuals when you are speaking/playing [ie: clipping/crackle point]

We have another string to our musical grid bow;-)
Thanks Linden Lab!

Ty to Towanda Middle and Angelika Jacobus for the tips while I tested!
Thanks to Rayo for one of the shots above!

Cu in the bitstream soon for some grid busking in addition to my regular High Quality streaming gigs!

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