[TUTORIAL] How to micspam like a not noob.

[Midnight[Dawn]]

Hello everyone.
I'm bored, just going to put that out of the way cause it's the reason of writing this.

So to start off with this tutorial we're going to list all the little tools you will need to pull this off.
You will need:

• Virtual Audio Cable[software.muzychenko.net] ( Alt: VB Audio cable ,which is free)
  
• WINAMP[www.winamp.com]
  
• GoldWave[www.goldwave.com]

It's a pretty short list and the procedure is relatively simple,so lets start of by explaining each individual tool.

Virtual Audio Cable

This tool is pretty much necessary (unless you plan to take a real audio cable and plug your speaker output to your mic input and mute your game).
Since micspamming using a physical microphone is pretty much a giant no and is frowned upon for being really amateurish, we will be utilizing this tool to create virtual cables.
So how does this work?
After you've installed Virtual Audio Cable (I hope I don't need to tell you how), you should have "Line 1" appear in your recording devices list,located in Control Panel - Sounds.
Right click it and check "Set As Default Communication Device".

That's it for this tool.

WINAMP

Reason why we want WINAMP is to be able to play music directly to Line 1.
Once you've installed it, go into preferences located in the Options tab at the very top.
Locate "Plug-ins" and in the list find "Nullsoft WaveOut Ouput" and double click it.
In the new windows find the devices list and select Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable).
Press OK.

Almost there

You are almost ready to play your music to all the "eager" fans on TF2 which you don't have.
There's one 2nd last step before you're almost done setting up your enviornment.
Go to your steam settings and in Voice tab verify that your Recording Device is Line 1.
If it's not press "Detect Audio Device".If it still doesn't change to Line 1, press Change Device and right click the Line 1 and set it as both default communication and default device.

This should do it,now onto our last step before we enter in-game.

GoldWave

So you got your dank music,memes, turtlesex (those who play surf know that guy) and what not.
But if you were to go in game and blast it all ,you'd find that it sounds terrible.
Voice communication protocols, as the name implies, are designed to transmit voice at a certain bitrate and in a certain frequency range.They don't like when you ask them to stream music, so they do a half of a job.

We must edit our songs to make them sound atleast half as good.
Bear in mind that not all songs will work (e.g. songs with a lot of going on in them,tons of sounds ,etc. Experiment a bit with this to find what works).

Open up GoldWave and open your songs you want to edit.You will have to edit them one at a time (You can sort of avoid this by using HL-DJ's tool to batch process every single song, but you lose a bit of control as some songs may need to have their volume adjusted more or less).
Once you've opened your song, go to Effects - Filters - Bandpass/Stop.
In the new windows in the "From" box input 100 and and in "To" input 5512.Press OK.
Go back to Effects tab and at the bottom click "Resample".
In the new windows input 11025 and press OK.
Again, go back to Effects tab, go to Volume and click Match Volume.
For Average box it can vary.Quiet songs generaly may not need this step.For most songs I apply -18 to -20 and for louder ones -22 up to -24.
In Clipping Control select "Reduce average level to avoid clipping".
Keep in mind that the music may sound louder in game than it does in GoldWave.
It all depends on various settings you have.

Ok,we're almost done. Go to File - Save As.
Now for the file type select Wave(.Wav). Click the Attributes button and find PCM Signed 16 bit, mono. Click it and press OK.
Save your edited music and add it to your WINAMP library.

In-Game

Assuming TF2,but this can work on other source games.
To test if everything went well open up a map by typing "map cp_dustbowl" in the console.
Once loaded type these 2 commands in.
voice_loopback 1
+voicerecord

voice_loopback sends everything you say into the microphone back to you so you can hear it like everyone else hears it on the server.
+voicerecord will keep the voice chat on so you don't have to hold voice button,atleast until you accidentally press it,then you have to type it in again.

Now,go to WINAMP, reduce to volume to about 15% and play any song and return back to game.
If all went right you should hear some good music playing, hopefully.
If not, double check the steps involving voice settings in steam and settings in recording devices and additionally try restarting your PC.

That concludes this tutorial.Happy spamming~

P.S. you cannot use your microphone to speak while doing this :3
P.P.S there's probably plenty of errors,I'll fix them later. See this as a little guide and use google if something is unclear.

[Stahlfrau]

Well, you just made me hate you. Congratulations.

[Midnight[Dawn]]

Originally posted by Snorkofob C:

Well, you just made me hate you. Congratulations.

Sorry about that.

[Burim]

Originally posted by Snorkofob C:

Well, you just made me hate you. Congratulations.

Beat me to it. Damn.

[Mitsubishi Materials]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4StOKFw7M

The Xbox is you, Cel.

[Stahlfrau]

Originally posted by HMarcusC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4StOKFw7M

The Xbox is you, Cel.

Daym.

[crowman]

Can't you just use stereo mix instead of virtual audio cable?

And here's a toggle bind for voice chat for convenience's sake
alias "vtoggle" "von"
alias "von" "+voicerecord; alias vtoggle voff"
alias "voff" "-voicerecord; alias vtoggle von"
bind "del" "vtoggle"

The "del" in >bind "del" "vtoggle"< can be any button you want.

[Marcel]

Originally posted by Hcrowman:

Can't you just use stereo mix instead of virtual audio cable?

And here's a toggle bind for voice chat for convenience's sake
alias "vtoggle" "von"
alias "von" "+voicerecord; alias vtoggle voff"
alias "voff" "-voicerecord; alias vtoggle von"
bind "del" "vtoggle"

The "del" in >bind "del" "vtoggle"< can be any button you want.

That only works if you have Realtek sound drives, unless I'm mistaken.

[Midnight[Dawn]]

Why all the hate? If someone really wanted to micspam, they'd do it with or without this tutorial.
The point is to make the micspam less annoying and more bearable.

[Stahlfrau]

Originally posted by Cel | MidnightDawn:

Why all the hate? If someone really wanted to micspam, they'd do it with or without this tutorial.
The point is to make the micspam less annoying and more bearable.

Let's compare it to making a guide on how to shoot someone the way they feel less pain. I know, the example is extreme, but really. It doesn't matter if they feel more or less pain, they're still shot. Plus most micspammers are here to make our gameplay living hell, so they would do the opposite, you know.

[Midnight[Dawn]]

Originally posted by Snorkofob C:

Originally posted by Cel | MidnightDawn:

Why all the hate? If someone really wanted to micspam, they'd do it with or without this tutorial.
The point is to make the micspam less annoying and more bearable.

Let's compare it to making a guide on how to shoot someone the way they feel less pain. I know, the example is extreme, but really. It doesn't matter if they feel more or less pain, they're still shot. Plus most micspammers are here to make our gameplay living hell, so they would do the opposite, you know.

I'd argue that this goes away from the point. You can mute the micspammer.
I personally like when someone plays good music because it can be fun.
The problem arises when someone doesn't know how to do it properly.
They may want to bring fun to people but they are not aware they're doing it the wrong way.

Here's one example.
Imagine 2 people.1 person knows how to play a synthesizer and is really good at it.
Second person doesn't know but would like to do it no matter what.
They both go out ,for example into the city square and start playing for the amusement of others.
Naturally a crowd would gather around the 1st person to listen to the good performance... the 2nd person however wouldn't have that luck.

Also there's this 3rd guy who intentionally plays badly but he's there regardless of the 1st 2 guys or anything else really.

Now I know micspamming music isn't the most glamorous thing but some people enjoy it.
However, noone will enjoy it if you don't know how to do it.

(Also, your argument has several flaws. First off a person who intentionally wants to make hell for others would do it without me writing this guide.Either way you get that micspammer who's annoying. A person who would like to do it for the fun of others would have benefit from this guide. Without a guide like this he wouldn't be much different from the one who wants to make hell,apart from actually playing music that's good(hopefully,if he has a good taste).
Second ... honestly think about it. Do you really want to be shot in a way that it hurts more? In the case of micspamming,it is inevitable, it is going to happen sooner or later, so we might as well make it hurt less).

[Midnight[Dawn]]

Originally posted by HMarcusC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4StOKFw7M

The Xbox is you, Cel.

He didn't do a good job destroying me then. He made himself look worse tbh :\

[Burim]

Originally posted by Cel | MidnightDawn:

Why all the hate? If someone really wanted to micspam, they'd do it with or without this tutorial.
The point is to make the micspam less annoying and more bearable.

I'm sorry, but what? You're curious as to why you're getting hate by making a guide on how to improve micspamming, an action that pretty much everyone hates.

[Marcel]

I agree with Olxvxr. Sure, better quality micspam is "nice", I guess. What you don't see is the side-effect: This will motivate more people to micspam therefore causing more players micspamming on the servers and more work for the staff.

Also, not everyone knows about the /sm command. Some people don't even know how to mute players through the game's menu.

[Burim]

Originally posted by ♥Little Yuuki♥:

I agree with Olxvxr. Sure, better quality micspam is "nice", I guess. What you don't see is the side-effect: This will motivate more people to micspam therefore causing more players micspam on the servers and more work for the staff.

Also, not everyone knows about the /sm command. Some people don't even know how to mute players through the game's menu.

^^^^

[Stahlfrau]

Originally posted by Cel | MidnightDawn:

Originally posted by Snorkofob C:

Let's compare it to making a guide on how to shoot someone the way they feel less pain. I know, the example is extreme, but really. It doesn't matter if they feel more or less pain, they're still shot. Plus most micspammers are here to make our gameplay living hell, so they would do the opposite, you know.

I'd argue that this goes away from the point. You can mute the micspammer.
I personally like when someone plays good music because it can be fun.
The problem arises when someone doesn't know how to do it properly.
They may want to bring fun to people but they are not aware they're doing it the wrong way.

Here's one example.
Imagine 2 people.1 person knows how to play a synthesizer and is really good at it.
Second person doesn't know but would like to do it no matter what.
They both go out ,for example into the city square and start playing for the amusement of others.
Naturally a crowd would gather around the 1st person to listen to the good performance... the 2nd person however wouldn't have that luck.

Also there's this 3rd guy who intentionally plays badly but he's there regardless of the 1st 2 guys or anything else really.

Now I know micspamming music isn't the most glamorous thing but some people enjoy it.
However, noone will enjoy it if you don't know how to do it.

(Also, your argument has several flaws. First off a person who intentionally wants to make hell for others would do it without me writing this guide.Either way you get that micspammer who's annoying. A person who would like to do it for the fun of others would have benefit from this guide. Without a guide like this he wouldn't be much different from the one who wants to make hell,apart from actually playing music that's good(hopefully,if he has a good taste).
Second ... honestly think about it. Do you really want to be shot in a way that it hurts more? In the case of micspamming,it is inevitable, it is going to happen sooner or later, so we might as well make it hurt less).

2lazy to shorten the quote, so deal with it.

First of all: I am so butthurt because I, of all people, can't mute you. You know the drill. Not that I'm complaining about it.
Second: "good music" is a subjective thing. I can micspam something like The Mainframe Song from Borderlands TPS's DLC. I bet most of the server will hate me for this, but hey, it's "good music", so they totally have a bad taste.
Third: I doubt that in our capitalist society someone will play music out in the open without taking donations. That means that it's naturally about who's better. Because of that the second guy can either be an asshole and try to waste first guy's efforts by playing his stuff louder trying to disrupt the good stuff, or leave, cuz he's not getting any money either way. With micspamming it's kinda different. They're mostly the third guys. If someone actually micspams with good intentions, they'll most likely learn their stuff from professional guides on the software they're using.
Fourth: did I ever say that those third guys need a guide that they can completely disregard to micspam bad stuff? If it seemed that way, that was not what I meant.
Fifth: why don't you make a guide on micspamming music in TF2 guides? I know 3-4 players who like to micspam music on Surf, and they're all damn professionals. They probably don't need this guide. But someone will definitely learn something from it if you post it where people can actually find it.
Sixth: do you mean that making a guide on how to shoot people the way they feel less pain is a good idea? Like really. People shoot people with intentions to either kill them or make them feel a lot of pain. Usually both. Same here, making a guide that good micspammers can use won't stop any bad micspammers. You definitely do not making it "hurt less".