Reaper Equalizer Obs Studio For Better Voice Quality
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today we take our first dive into streaming audio enhancements with the Reaper Equalizer for Obs Studio. You are welcome to use any EQ VST that you have and enjoy as the techniques used here will still apply to others as well. Let me know if you have any questions!
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00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Plugin Download
01:00 - Starting in OBS
01:25 - Frequency Breakdown
03:00 - Adding EQ_1 To Mic
03:30 - Reaper UI Breakdown
06:55 - Core Vocal Enhancement
07:35 - The Box!
09:25 - Nasal/Honk
10:44 - Sibilance
12:00 - Sparkle Baby
12:30 - EQ Differences
13:25 - The Roll-Offs
13:49 - Low & High Pass
15:31 - Have Fun & Experiment :D
16:00 - Outro
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First??? Do people still comment this anymore?
I mean why not lol I'm here for it! :D congrats on being first haha
yes but it tends to be seen as annoying
@@PlentyAZach Where would RealEQ be placed in the chain?
This is THE best tutorial for anything mic related I've ever seen. Thank you so much!
That was a really cool guide and really detailed explainations!
Was really helpful to understand the frequency and their impact on the sound. Thanks!
I'm glad this helped you out Manas! Audio is a very subjective matter so that's why I tried to break it down rather than deal in absolutes like it has to been done in a certain manner. Have fun playing around and make sure you take some screen shots of settings you like before you change them in the quest for vocal perfection haha
THANK YOU SO MUCH! you literally lead me from point a to point b. You actually explained the different type of HZ and sounds you are dealing with. i took notes and tuned my Shure 7smb. After a year, I finally have an idea of this sort of stuff. thank you so much again!
You are very welcome Bud! I always try to be as clear and easy to follow as I can be and I'm glad that was something that helped you out so much! :D Best of luck to you and have fun creating! :D
I've spent so much time trying to understand this. Thank you SO much for explaining it all in detail!
You are very welcome, Sunshine! :D I'm glad this video was helpful for you!
One of the best tutorials I have ever seen online. Thank you so much for the comprehensive information made easy to understand.
You're welcome Aboveup! I appreciate the compliment and I'm glad this video was helpful for you! :D
Excellent and comprehensive guide, can't believe it only has a few thousand views. This is the good stuff!
I appreciate the compliment! and we'll get there eventually haha I still got a lot of work to do but I'll keep trying my best to make good stuff for you all :)
Dude... Top quality tutorial here. This EQ and your how to, was perfect! We're just starting to stream our clothing print on demand business, so I have to walk around our shop and run our printers. But my Bluetooth headset sounded so thin and tiny on our TH-cam streams, I was embarrassed and trying to find a better headset. But I did EXACTLY what you had for each band setting, and it made a tiny but noticeable difference. So I kept bumping all the db settings up by 3 each time and around +12 db for 1 band and -9db for 2 band and so forth, the mic sounded SO MUCH BETTER!!! I'm very happy and everyone with OBS should watch this tutorial of yours to make their mic sound much much better.
I appreciate the compliment and success story here Bud! :D it's always good to hear that my content was able to help others :) and yea Bluetooth mics can be super hard to get just right as they usually make some compromises in order to send the audio via Bluetooth. but with a bit of trial and error you can always make it work! the best mic we can ever have is the one we already own! :D
Oh man, best guide ever. Can't wait to watch more of your work!
I appreciate the compliment Weezy! I'm always trying to make easy to follow info for y'all! :D
Brilliant video! I do some radio presenting and I have always really wanted to try get the quality I get in the studio at home! I think this video has been really helpful for me to achieve this!
Thank you very much! Yours was the only tutorial that really explained what each frequency means and made me understand it in a way I can use! You're a legend !!!
Thank you bud! Audio is such a subjective subject so I'm glad you were able to find this useful! Hopfully I'll have a 2022 update out in the near future to break this down again and with the knowledge that I've gained over the last year or so :D
Thank you for this. I've been struggling with my audio for a while. I'm going through your videos at the moment and learning what I was doing wrong! Keep it up!
I appreciate it bud! I'm glad you found some useful info in this video! :D
thank you brotha. helped my audio quality significantly & the eq chart was a nice touch as well. keep it up.
Thank you very much Deemay, I'm glad this was helpful for you! :)
Just followed this guide and did some test recordings and it sounds so much better I think because of it, thank you so much
Glad to hear that this was helpful for you Bud! :D
This was really awesome man. I genuinely enjoy your tutorials. :D
Thank you so much Kudo! I really appreciate you're kind words and appreciate you stopping over here from Tiktok as well! :D
Every time I have to set my OBS audio filters I find myself back at this video, one of the most succinct and easy to follow guides for getting my EQ settings just right.
This was SO helpful!!!! I've found so many videos and they all say something different. This breaks it down so you know why you're choosing what you're choosing! Can't thank you enough!! Really feel like I've learned! 😂🎉
You are very welcome Ms Paris! :D I'm glad this was a useful break down of what each knobs does when twisting it so to speak! Audio is very subjective so don't be afraid to have some fun with it and see where it takes you! Good luck!
Thanks for this great teaching session! The best lesson about EQ I've found in the internet. Helped me a lot to understand how to find my own frequecies. Greetings from Brasil!
Greetings Daniel! I'm glad this video was helpful to you and I appreciate the compliment! happy creating and good luck bud! :D
All of your contents are really high quality. It really helps any OBS-user out there, including me.
I'm glad to hear that Crypto! It makes me very happy to hear that this is helping you out! :D
Finally! Adequate and well-explained guide!
Amazing video
Thanks!!
Very useful video about EQ. I have seen a lot before about voice but this video is the best. Keep going and thanks!
I really appreciate your kind words bud! thank you very much and happy New Year to you! :D
Nice Tutorial! Helped me out alot to improve my mic-quality. I watched several videos. This one did it for me though. Great work :)
I'm happy to hear that this helped you out Bud! :) Audio can be a finicky beast to deal with so just take your time and have fun experimenting :D
Your way to underated these tutorials is just amazing!
I really appreciate the compliment and I'm glad that I was able to help you understand Audio a little bit more! :D
Thanks for this, I now have a good starting point for EQing my vocals. Will play around it more. 🍻
Best video I've watched on the topic! Thanks so much!
thank you Josh, I really appreciate the kind words! :D
Definitely going to be trying these settings out! Thanks for the tips!
No problem!! glad it was helpful for you!
Amazing video! I just changed from a Blue Yeti mic to an Audio Technica AT2040 and your video helped make my new mic sound loads better! Thank you so much!
Clear and effective. Thank you!
Thank you, I have been working on my EQ for months. Now, I don't know if this was the final video yet, but it has helped, so I subscribe also because that you, like, are still struggling to reach the 1k milestone. Now my EQ should have made my very nasal voice sound a bit better. I will test in the next live streams and video recordings and we will see if finally I have reached a decent result. Thanks and have a nice day!
Thanks Bud I really appreciate it! and EQ is still one of those things that to this day I still mess around with as I hear new things and experiment to find the best set up haha. I appreciate you help as well to get towards that 1K goal! have a great day bud! :)
thanks! keep the good work up
I appreciate it bud thank you very much and happy New Year! :D
Cant believe this video doesnt have more attention, its incredibly well made. Super informative and the different examples help a lot
I appreciate the kind words! I have a lot of work to do to make sure I appease the YT algorithm as well so we'll get there one day :) Till then I'm happy to have helped those that I have been able to.
Great tutorial. Thank you!
this is easily one of the easiest guide to follow but also one of the only guide that actually explains in detail why each frequency needs to be adjustor or not and what parts of youre own voice it helps with either impacting it in a positive or negative way GREAT VIDEO!!
I'm glad to hear that this was helpful to you bud! :D I know when starting to learn about audio it was very confusing to me for a while till I just played with all the bands for a while. Happy creating and best of luck to you bud!
@@PlentyAZach Yea its not that i have a very deep, very naisally voice so to me i can never trell or find the sweet spot and i have a half decent condensor mic, andfor some reason i just could get the sound right but then i watch this and got it somewhere in a better place i think its just my voice lol but the video really helped me understand alot more tho
What an absolute legend! Give that man a sub! Exactly what I needed! Thank you soo much!
You are very welcome Bud! I'm glad this was helpful for you! :D
thank you so much, very cool guide and detailed explanation. now my voice are getting better
heck yea bud! I'm glad this video was able to help you out! :D happy creating! :D
This is so good, ty so much. Your sound btw sounds amazing. I see some videos about eq and they sound really rubbish, yours are very good.
Thank you very much Bud! Audio is super subjective so what sounds great to you and I may sound like butts to others. Even reading through the comment section on just this video I can see a hand full of different responses to my vocal processing haha I'm glad you enjoyed the video and found some use from it bud! :D
Wow thx so much for making this video!
Super video! Thank you
You are the best. this make sounds my podmic much better, thank you!
I appreciate it Witive! I'm glad you were able to tweak your podmic to get the most out of it! Happy creating! :D
Learned so much, thank you. I didn't know about the high pass low pass thing
You are welcome Cyberhex! I'm glad this was helpful to you! and yea the high and low pass filters can be helpful in certain uses but now at this point I just put it onto everything I use to cut out like the SUB frequencies in my voice as I don't need to be booming into people's subs or having AC hiss on the high end haha
Great video dude! thank-you
thanx body , you just got the answer for one of my projects. thumbs up
Glad I could help! Take care Bud!
thank you. really helpful and professional~
Thank you Bud I'm glad this was helpful for you! :D
Thanks. Very helpful!
i like your video. By far the best explanation of ReaEQ :)
I really appreciate that! Audio can be really subjective so I'm glad it all made sense! :)
You've been really helpful. Thank you, Subbed! :)
I appreciate the kind words and the sub! have a great day and I'm glad this was helpful for you!
Very interesting. Thanks!
You are very welcome! :D
your video helped me SO much. thank you
I'm glad it helped you Bud! :D Have a great day!
This is so damn good, thank you!
You're welcome!! :D
very good guide and very helpful thank you!
You're welcome bud I'm glad this was helpful to you! :D
very helpful apperciate it!
Really good video, I learned a couple of things from it,but God... you are talking about a de-esser and this video really really neeeds one!
It's funny to me as to my ears I don't hear a lot of harsh sibilance but I know my headphones have a fairly flat response curve in that zone. Audio engineering is such a subjective act at times as I only have so many headphones I can check for different sounds on. But in the future I'll try to watch that zone a more carefully to make sure there is no harshness there 👍
Thank you so much for this tutor, it means alot man.... keepitup!
I appreciate it Alphabirth! Have a great day bud and good luck on your audio! :D
Thank you, just thank you. thats a great video
Your welcome Bud! I’m glad this was helpful to you 😃👍🏻
great video my MAN
Thank you very much! I’m glad you liked it 😃
super helpful!
I appreciate the compliment Acer! :D Thank you and have a great week Bud!
Thank you so much!
Great tutorial. Checking your others tutorials out. Question what mic are you using?😂
appreciate it G
best video explaining, thanks alot
You are very welcome Omar! glad this was helpful to you!
It's a little bit hard to swallow at first but you did a great job explaining it! I haven't tried it yet but I think I get it, I might have to back and replay the video but kudos to this. Thanks a lot :)
Helped a ton thanks. Was super box city sounds until your help 🖤
I'm glad this was able to help you buddy! :D happy creating!
I know this video is pretty old at this point, but considering that I was completely unknowledgable on anything to do with audio tech before this, it was a pretty great one and everything I had already recorded now just simply sounds better thanks to it.
Thankfully, Audio processing and the overall picture doesn't really change. unless it's like a decade old most videos are still relevant :) but I'm glad you found this video helpful aside from it's using an older obs version at the moment!
You are so underrated. Thank you for this great tip. One quick question though, will my keyboard typing test still be heard around 70hz?
I appreciate the compliment! :D as for your keyboard, the sounds of your keyboard could still come through. You would have to do a test of your audio to see if you can still hear it and how it compares to your voice. If you are hearing too much, you could also add a very narrow cut right at that 70hz range to help drop more of that noise off.
@@PlentyAZach This helped a lot! Thank you very much man! Love your audio tips and so are the streaming tips using OBS. Binged watch a couple of them actually XD
I just binged every obs vid and now I’m here. Hello 👁👄👁
Mr. Shock! :D happy to have you here at the present Bud haha I hope you found the videos useful! :D
2 years later and this video is super helpful. Understanding each of the ranges is what no one was explaining and what really helped fine tune my settings.
Excelente aporte, muy didáctico, gracias!
Me alegro de que hayas disfrutado el vídeo. ¡Qué tengas un lindo día!
Thank you sir
Lifesaver
Great video man you need more subs! Speaking of which just did
I really appreciate the compliment! :) I still have a lot of hard work to put in first haha :P
Thannnnnk youuuu!!
Thank you❤️
You’re welcome 😊
Nice video, which webcam and microphone you are using?
Much love to you. The video is dope. Can you do a voice over recording tutorial on Ocen Audio. I feel like it's such a great competitor to audacity that no one talks about much in the industry. Thanks in advance
I've not heard of Ocen Audio but I'll take a look at it for sure! especially to get our of the Adobe bubble haha
bro you are insane - you did it like a pro. thanks
one Q : why we add the second EQ and lowered the post 20k meanwhile the first EQ we increased it with high pass
Dr. Psychosis, first I'm glad you liked the video and I appreciate the vote of confidence! :)
Secondly, to answer your question: The first EQ that I use alter my vocal frequencies without altering the core of the audio signal coming in. this way before I do any high pass (HP) or low pass (LP) filters, I can make sure I like how my voice sounds. Once I've done all of that I like to then send that signal into a roll off EQ filter that applies those HP and LP filters. On the first EQ, I start to bring up my high end Hz around 5000-10000Hz as there is still a lot of vocal sound from 10kHz-20kHz. But, I want to roll off starting around 18kHz with a LP to bring down any super high pitch ringing that my mic can pick up and transmit to the content that I can't hear. The main area I want to bring out and brighten is the 5000Hz-18kHz range. everything above that for voices is just noise really. So applying this boost before I roll off ensures that I'm brighten the area I want without ALSO brightening that super high pitched hiss and squeals.
Also, I use a second EQ as I find it easier to manage from a book keeping perspective. you could also just add 2 more bands to the first EQ and apply a LP and HP filter right there. Just 2 different ways to achieve the same effect is all.
Hope this helps bud and feel free to ask if you need any more clarification :)
Thanks that helped my stream alot. i do have some question about getting rid of more echo. kind of in a spot where i cant get foam at the moment.
You could try doing a very selective EQ subtraction. Basically take a very narrow band and boost it by like 12 to 15db and listen for frequency ranges that amplify that echo. Once found switch from that boost to a -4db or so cut to try and pull some of that sound out of your stream mix! I hope this helps bud!
Still a super easy and amazing guide to follow! As a complete noob though I have to ask, I'll still need to set up a noise suppression filter/noise gate and limiter to get rid of background noise like my keyboard and other noises right? I know you said that the second EQ was supposed to remove those but I'm still having background noise appear. What would you recommend?
Hey Horsaz! So think of EQing as a way to color in a coloring book picture. the overall content of your audio is there, all you are doing is shaping it by adding and removing some colors. the rolloffs are more for very low hum and high pitch noise, keyboard clicks are unfortunate not going to be completely removed. so some things that can help are:
- Adding a noise suppression filter as the first choice, I have a video detailing different noise suppression methods, but TL;DR any of them will work, just depends on what you like best, they them out and see what you like :)
- after I get to the EQ is generally where I'd put a noise gate/expander. I use reagate from the makers of the software in this video. I use attack 1ms, hold 500ms, release 600ms, gate of -40db. adjust these to what you might like but that will eliminate a lot of the quiet sounds.
- You could also try using a quieter keyboard, I use oil king black switches that don't have any click other than the bottom out of the key. if you are using really clicky keys, they will always be heard. that's not a bad thing either just depends on what you are going for :) but any none clicky key would work at reducing this sound.
Hope this helps bud! :)
perfect tutorial thank you. i love the epos vox tutorial on this subject but i think it moves a little fast
Simple the best!
Guess I'll add this to my equaliser apo plugins
Heck yes! I use equalizerAPO and reaper plugins to great effect! a wonderful set of software tools bud!
Thank you for the overview! For the example you are showing at 8:30 it implies that you actually hear what is currently recorded. But I don't. I mean I could move it a tiny bit, record it and listen to it (or something like that) but that would actually be much more effort than to just listen to it live. Am I assuming correct that you listen to it life? And if yes, how would you enable that? Don't see any option in the EQ or OBS to do that. I mean its possible in windows I guess but then It would probably bypass the EQ.
Ah, found it. You need to set a device as "Monitoring device" in the main options menu, and then in the menu where you define tracks, delays and whatnot, you can tell to output to that device.
Just in case anyone else is wondering. ^^
Now I'll get through your tutorial step by step :D
that was exactly what I was going to recommend for you haha I'm glad that you found it though! :D happy creating bud and best of luck! :D
Excellent Explanation. You should be a Professional Teacher. May be you are. Thank you a lot.
I've always had a passion for teaching but alas I am an engineer haha maybe in the future I can get into teaching but till then I'll keep having fun doing youtube videos haha :D
While this video had been very Helpful and I am thankful for it since it is halping me understand a bit more. I was curious. if you ever either before, or after explored doing this with various kinds of Mics in the last two years?
This EQ stuff is DEEP magic. I tried playing around on my own based on that chart, and it either sounded bad or didn't have an effect. Then, when I copied exactly what you had, it worked slightly better than without it. For sure, I'm not tuning for my own voice, yet, but \_O_/ it's still too hard to grok.
Great video, thanks for the complete guide :)
I have still some issue's regarding my voice and setting it up properly, could you please help me with that?
Left you a DM on discord :)
This was a wonderful and well explained video. Sadly, it also showed me that streaming isnt something I should be doing. Not a single setting sounds good with my voice.
Great video
I have a doubt, because I'm starting, about audio equalization.
Can I use Reaper Equalizer directly on windows or Voicemeeter Banana for example?
So my ts and other programs come out with a better voice
Look into a program called Equalizer APO. this lets you use VSTs on a system wide base. I haven't used it a lot myself but I know it's very strong!
I wish there was a free automatic eq plugin that automatically listens to your voice and makes the best config for you like we have ai technology wouldn't be surprised if this is already out there.
I would love that so much! It can be hard for sure though to trial and error your way through EQing and all the fun of audio processing haha. hopefully some day that'll be made, especially with all the AI stuff out there it's only a matter of time.
Judging by Nvidia SDK it’s won’t come anytime soon imo their rnnoise is a joke in compare to OBS one!
As far as I'm aware, I know fl studio has an ai plugin which does that, but only for prerecorded audio. But I'm pretty sure you could just look at what it did and copy it over to your live filters. But it does cost money.
Thanks a lot, could you please share the settings that you use, not just the 1band
my main problem with my mic is the Sibilance , I was waiting to hear about the talk for the deesser but think you might of forgot to add it in this video or if there is a link to it i would love to see how to use a deesser but great video over all man good job
Crazy, you are correct, I forgot to take that part out when I was going through the video! That mistake was fully on me there, I don't have a video yet but I'm currently making an updated 2023 video for every type of filter I would recommend for content creators but it'll take me a bit to shot and edit all of that. In the mean time I'd recommend trying this:
Set up a multiband compressor, turn off all bands except for the 3rd band ( or really any of the ones in the middle). Make sure there is no auto-gain make up enabled. From there, make the remaining band's top frequency around 9500Hz, put the band in front of that one to like 7500Hz (so band 3 enabled, 9500Hz, band 2 disabled, 7500Hz) This will make the 3rd enabled band cover the frequency range of 7500Hz - 9500Hz which is generally where the Sibilance is. From there, set a ratio to 3:1 or 4:1 (personal preference) and set the threshold to around -20dB to start. set the threshold to a more negative number if you want more compression on your Sibilance (be careful as too much will give you an artificial lisp as it'll cut way to much of the S sound).
Hopefully , that makes sense, and I'm using the Reaper mutiband compressor to do this. if you already installed the filters from this video you'll have it, it's called "REAXComp" in the Vst folder :)
@@PlentyAZach thank you ill try this out
Thanks so much! What's the reason to make the roll-offs a separate EQ? Could you do it all in one EQ and just add 2 more bands for the roll-offs?
Hey Jenks, you absolutly could do the rolloffs in the same EQ as the rest of them. It was more to just show that you can have seperate EQs and they would all still work together. It also made it a bit easier to visualize it I thought when showing it off here. But you can do either with very little to no effect on the sound :D Hope that helps!
@@PlentyAZach perfect, thank you!
Hello! This is honestly a fantastic tutorial, although I find it hard to follow it, because I do not see the waveforms of my own voice and therefore I do not know what precisely to adjust. What can I do?
Hi. Are these settings good for podcast on a condensor mic like the Rode NT2a?
I have high pass filter on mic. So, could i simply add the number 6 band for the 16k hertz frequency without adding a second equalizer? Or can i use the noise suppression for the 17k hertz instead a second EQ?
:)
these settings could work for podcasting on a condenser mic as that's actually the way I use my condensor mic. You'll have to tune the settings for your voice but it'd be a solid starting point in my eyes.
as for the HPF, you could add another band and just apply the HPF to the same EQ if you wanted to. I separated mine into two for book keeping really haha it's really up to you no harm in it either way really.
Do you ever build OBS from source? I just submitted an 8-band EQ to the project before Xmas. It's waiting for approval but the code is there. This has me questioning the somewhat arbitrary fixed frequency bands I chose for the implementation.
I haven't built it from source myself but I feel that could be an interesting project for me to get a better understanding of it's workings. I don't have the best knowledge base when it comes to coding at that level. I generally prefer parametric EQs as it lets you select any frequency and alter it almost infinitely, but this is also it's down side. It's not easy to start with if you know nothing about audio processing. I think 8 and 16 band EQs are an awesome starting place for first time audio processes to jump right it and just adjust a few sliders to get a sound they like. then later they can dive deeper if they want to :)
Totally Underrated??????
I appreciate that but i gotta pay my dues and still got a lot of hard work to go!
Please, expand this to a series of videos 🙏🏻
How to use compressor? (What do people look for when they move that slider up and down😅)
How to cut lows (or highs) or what is that called? 😅
How to remove noice?
And basically how to edit voice step-by-step.
Yeah, there are plenty of videos of that type, but your way of breaking things down and explaining is the best. I almost never write comment, but will be waiting for you and your new videos to finally figure out that bloody voice editing 🥲😄
I've added all of your feedback to my list of videos to start looking over and I'll start doing a break down of each type of tool you can use and how to use it :D I really appreciate your well thought out and helpful comment! I'll be working on trying to get some of these started this week :D Have a great day bud!
@@PlentyAZach wow thanks for answering me 😍 It is a good sign to finally start filming, because soon voice editing will be explained 🤗
when i attempt to create a second eq for the roll offs there is no information being picked up by the mic, any ideas?
I already use Reaper as a DAW, do I need to install all the reaplugs again? In OBS I can see some plugins but not the ones from reaper
Yo thanks for this video I stream but don’t use a headset so a lot of background noise so I use the noise gate but it can cut out some of my voice can I turn down my noise gate and use some eq to cut out the noise great video u should have more subs I subscribe
using EQ to cut out the background noise probably isn't the way you want to go as it will heavily cut into the quality of your voice. If you have an RTX Nvidia GPU I'd use RTX voice to help cut your background noise, or if not, another type of noise suppression plugin. This would give you the best quality voice without any extra money or the use of a headset.
Ok cool thanks for getting back to me
use expander instead of gate, it can lower the sounds under the threshold instead of completely cut them out.