# Overview Amplifier gives you control over how players sound in Simple Voice Chat. Drop someone's pitch to a growl, put cathedral reverb on a priest, let an announcer be heard across the whole server, or mute a troublemaker before anyone else has to hear them. It's free, and it works alongside Simple Voice Chat rather than replacing it. ## Try it Make someone sound like they're in a cave: ``` /amplifier pitch 0.7 Steve /amplifier reverb 0.8 0.9 Steve ``` Put them back to normal: ``` /amplifier reset Steve ``` ## What you can do **Change how someone sounds.** Pitch and volume, adjusted live while they're talking. **Add reverb.** Anything from a slight room to a huge echoing hall. Useful for dungeons, cathedrals, or making a boss sound enormous. **Let someone be heard everywhere.** Broadcasting ignores distance entirely, so an announcer or an event host reaches the whole server. **Change how far voices carry.** Server-wide, or for one person. Handy for giving a shouting NPC more reach, or making a stealth area whisper-quiet. **Moderate it.** Mute one player, deafen one player, or switch voice chat off for everybody. A muted player's audio is dropped before it goes anywhere, so nobody hears them at all. **Talk across dimensions.** Players in a group can hear each other even in different worlds. **Run it across several servers.** With Redis, voice state stays in sync across your network. **Remember settings.** Voice settings survive restarts, saved to a file or a real database if you'd rather. ## What you need | | | |---|---| | Simple Voice Chat | required, on the server, and players need the client mod | | Server | Paper 1.20 or newer | | Java | 17 or newer | Everything else Amplifier uses is bundled inside it. ## Where settings get saved Three options, set with `storage.type`: | Type | When to use it | |---|---| | `LOCAL` | The default. Plain files on the server. Fine for a single server | | `MYSQL` | You already run MySQL, or you want several servers sharing settings | | `MONGODB` | Same, if Mongo is what you run | See [[Amplifier/Server Owners/Configuration]] for connection details. ## Permissions | Permission | What it does | |---|---| | `lodestone.amplifier.bypass` | Lets someone talk even when voice chat is switched off for everyone else | Command permissions are listed in [[Amplifier/Server Owners/Commands]].