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Installing Mumble

Aug 29, 20244 min read

Remember

Currently the mod only supports Windows. MacOS and Linux support is untested and unsupported!

Video Tutorial

This video covers everything, but the relevant page’s timestamp has been linked below. 👍

Downloading Mumble

  1. Start by downloading Mumble from the Mumble Official Website.
  2. Read and Accept the Terms and Conditions.
  3. Click YES to the Administrator Prompt.
  4. Click Finish.
  5. Open Mumble. There should be an icon on your desktop.

First Time Setup

Do not skip this

When Mumble is launched for the first time, it has an audio configuration wizard that will automatically open.

Each section will walk you through how to setup each page properly.

Device Selection

  1. If needed, select your input device, but you should be able to leave this as Default Device.
  2. Select your output device.
    • If you have speakers and headphones, make sure to select your headphones.
    • If you have WaveLink, Virtual Audio Cable, or VoiceMeeter make sure to select the proper route like Voice Chat.
  3. Make sure the box beside Enable Position Audio is checked.
  4. For System under Input Device and Output Device, you should be able to leave as WASAPI.
  5. Click next to continue.

Device Tuning

This will see how performant your soundcard is. An audio example will play and you want to see how far the slider can go down before it induces static or popping. Lower is better.

Any motherboard created within the last few years should be able to handle 10ms just fine.

Volume Tuning

This part would be best to just read the installer’s directions directly. It requires you to open the Sound Panel in Windows which you can find by:

  1. Open Start. (Press Windows button)
  2. Type sounds, and click the option called Change System Sounds.
  3. This should open a tiny control window, if it opens Windows Settings, you clicked the wrong one.
  4. Click the Recording tab at the top, and find your Microphone on the list.
  5. You can find the active Microphone by talking into it. The bar should start turning green.
  6. Double click your Microphone, and click on the Levels tab.
  7. Follow the instructions on the Mumble Installer.

Keep in mind,

Changing any of the values in the Sounds Panel from their original state will require you to adapt your volume adjustments in other applications like Discord.

Voice Activity Detection

This step is very important, otherwise you would wake up sleepers on accident while using TalkState.

  1. Generally you’d want to use open mic.
    • This can be achieved by selecting Raw amplitude from input.
  2. Position your microphone as you would while playing the game.
  3. Speak a sentence out loud repeatedly.
    • A good one is A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
  4. While talking, move the slider back and forth.
  5. When actively talking, your voice should enter the green bar, and sometimes dip into the yellow bar.
  6. When not talking, your input should be in the red bar. This includes things like breathing, fan noise, and keyboard clicks.

Play with the settings a bit and find where it fits. Don’t worry if your keyboard is a bit too loud, we will move to Noise Suppression later.

Quality Settings

Here you can leave it as balanced. If you are a streamer and care about audio quality, you can pick high. You can even change this later to go as high as 192kb/s.

Although if you, the server, or any of your friends have either;

  • Bandwidth limits
  • Bad/Slow Internet

you should stay away from high and only use balanced or even low.

Positional Audio

  1. Click Use Headphones.
  2. You should be able to hear the audio sample rotating around you clockwise.
    • Click Next > if true.
    • If it’s not rotating around you, try any of these to fix it.

Certificate Management

Here we will simply select Automatic certificate creation.

When you join a server, Mumble will register and self-sign a certificate for you to encrypt your packets.

If you want to use the public server browser, you will need to click Yes here. This sends your IP to each server on the browser. Although, regardless of this option your IP will be sent to the server you ultimately decide on connecting to anyway.

This isn’t required if you have a Private Server, are self-hosting, or if you’re joining the official server.

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