Once you have installed the Blabbelon software and you’re registered, you can start to set yourself up. For Mac users, the easiest way is by going to the Preferences panel by either using the keyboard shortcut Command+Comma [
,] or by going up to the application menu and navigating to Blabbelon > Preferences.
The various options under preferences
You will see a new panel open for setting preferences, and at the top, a dropdown menu to assign specific hotkeys for several important functions. These are as follows:
Push to Talk: this is they key you will press to activate your microphone to talk. Unlike the web browser version of Blabbelon, the Desktop App let’s you choose virtually any key you like, with same rare exceptions (the F1 key on some computers defaults to system Help no matter what you do). At long last fans, you can use the tilde key!
Push to Talk (Admin): If you plan to set up ranks in your blabs, this is a great feature to take advantage of. Pressing the admin-level push-to-talk means that only people of higher rank within a blab will be able to hear you. This is ideal for ‘Officer Chat’ in certain multiplayer games.
Quick-mute current user: At any time, you can mute a user who is annoying you. If you set a hotkey for this, you can do so while they are talking, in an instant. This is ideal if you are using the transparent overlay view.
Switch to Transparent Interface: Blabbelon let’s you switch to an overlay view, where the app with ‘hover’ as a tiny transparent palette over any other software you are running. When others talk, their names will appear. Setting a hotkey here will let you toggle between views very quickly.
The middle portion of the preferences pane is greyed-out and labeled Echo Cancellation. This feature is currently not active and relates to two-way audio.
The bottom part of the preferences pane pertains to the transparent overlay view. You can change the font and the amount of transparency to your liking.
