Thank you for the brief, detailed and extremely helpful tutorial. I recently switched to recording with OBS instead, and my sound quality instantly suffered. This gets it back on par with what I was recording with before (ScreenFlow for Mac). Since I want the flexibility to move to Linux or Windows again in future, I wanted to move into tools that are cross-platform rather than only available on one. Have an excellent day! :)
DUDE MY SOUND QUALITY HAS ALOT OF ISSUES AND ALOT OF BACKGROUND NOISES AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY TUTOIRAL I SAW OR JUST THE TUTORIAL IS SO LONG BUT THIS TUTOIRAL IS DIFFRENT BECUASE ITS NOT LONG AND I THINK ITS GONNA HELP ME ALOT IAM GONNA SUBSCRIBE JUST FOR THAT I LOVE YOU MAN
Great video, and thank you for being clear, to the point and brief. Once I made those changes I noticed that my Auto Mixer didn't pick background noise any more. However, when I tried to record something to test the new settings. I don't know what happened but my voice started to cutting in and out.
Voice cutting in and out is most likely a problem caused by mixing. Compressors and limiters will do that (they're meant to in music production.) Play around with the settings more; do note that what order you add these plug ins in, is important. Noise gate, then compressor, then limiter is very different to limiter, then compressor, then noise gate. Try those out, I feel the uploader in this vid has a pretty good order. All that's left is for you to check out your settings, and see how it works with your mic and desktop audio.
thank you SOSOSOSO much this was absolutely amazing, i'm a new youtuber so this helps a bunch. i'd watch a video that explains things longer, you've earned yourself a new subscriber!!
Thank you for the very helpful tutorial. Really appreciated when you said "..I'm trying to keep this video extremely short coz I know your time is limited."
That's not what phase cancellation means. Phase cancellation happens when you record something with multiple microphones, and since the sound arrives at each microphone at a slightly different time, the captured waveforms might not line up perfectly and might cancel each other out (You can see it in the picture that one waveform has a positive (+1) amplitude, while the other one has a negative (-1) one (-1+(+1)= 0) resulting in a phasey or hollow sound with decreased low-frequency content. It has nothing to do with distortion, white noise or instruments masking each other. This issue can be fixed either by inverting the polarity on one of the tracks (which flips one of the waveforms upside down) or by ensuring that all of the microphones have the same distance from the sound source (this way the sound will arrive at each microphone at roughly the same time). If you record your voice with a single microphone, there's not gonna be any phase cancellation. Inverting the polarity isn't gonna make any difference.
Thanks man. quick solution after a few hours of frustration. I was using the output from my skype. Didnt occur to me to get a new input from the actual mic. fixed it all!
Thanks a lot Man for the simplified guide Been having a low audio issue on my stream and hence been unable to do much Cleared up many settings even before I started playing with it
this was really helpful for me so thank you so much I can really tell a difference and the don't be fooled by the title saying lessthan 5 mins and its more than 5 mins dw it was just an explenationof something and you don't have to watch but thank you very much and this is helping all of us make videos
I think you can leave out the phase invert effect since I doesn't make any sense in most cases. The moment you invert the phase you will get phasing issues with other signals. Most noise based sounds won't benefit from this option. Maybe some tune based sounds (like music) can benefit but like I said it will most likely create some issues somewhere else in the frequenzy spectrum.
Thank you, this was useful, my sound on my blue yeti was always a bit off, like everyone else that has one sounded better 😅.... I added the invert polarity and changed my noise gate settings to match yours and it is better, I think.
Same lol, I wanted to have a crappy sounding microphone for fun and clicked this video thinking it would explain it, instead I got the complete opposite 💀
Hmmm you might want to clarify that this is about the microphone sound quality in your title. I came here looking for how to fix the quality of the OTHER sounds that OBS records. For example, when I am recording my gameplay and then listen to the clip afterwards, the recorded game sounds/music sound much lower quality than what I originally heard.
Do you know why the sound quality on my headphones gets really bad whenever I open the program? I thought this video would be what I'm looking for but whenever I'm recording a game, my own sound quality just drops like an f-bomb, and it also affects my recording.
All audio sources for me have a lot of reverb with no indication where it's coming from. Windows voice recorder picks up my mic just fine, but my game and mic audio in obs is as if I'm in an echo chamber. What should I be looking at?
make sure you dont have two microphone inputs. I had the same problem bc I had my mic as its own input with filters and a seperate one that was already there without filters, causing the buzz and background noise
VoidRealms- thank you for the excellent summary. I am wondering if you have any ideas what might be causing my situation: I record film clips with OBS, so I generally don't have any audio processing enabled on OBS itself (since it is recording processed audio, as opposed to my voice). My issue is that when I import the clips into my video editor, they sound louder and harsher, without any effects or changes being applied to them or the audio track in the editor. I can always turn down the volume, but I would rather understand what is causing the discrepancy in the first place. If you have any ideas, please let me know, and thanks again!
If you're cutting some if your speech you lower the threshold. We had to lower ours quite low until my partner's voice want getting cut, but just high enough to cancel our the background noise.
I'm using OBS Studio to digitize VHS and mini DV tapes. Any ideas what the best audio setting for this is? All my audio has this loud/muffled sound like everyone was talking too close to the mic (but I know the original tapes don't sound like that)
You people never just list the fucking instructions, so we have to listen to your voices and little comments throughout. I could read it like 3 seconds, but I have to wait through all this explanation. Modern internet is stupid.
I am so confused, I have NO filters at all in anything that I looked at. I tried to put my Razer Kraken Tournament Edition to my microphone, it records my audio but its muffled, please send help!
did you just open the filters and do nothing or try to add them? if you didnt try to add them then hit the plus and add the filters. otherwise i cant help
That enabling noise suppression was such a mic drop. Awesome video
Thank you for the brief, detailed and extremely helpful tutorial. I recently switched to recording with OBS instead, and my sound quality instantly suffered. This gets it back on par with what I was recording with before (ScreenFlow for Mac). Since I want the flexibility to move to Linux or Windows again in future, I wanted to move into tools that are cross-platform rather than only available on one.
Have an excellent day! :)
DUDE MY SOUND QUALITY HAS ALOT OF ISSUES AND ALOT OF BACKGROUND NOISES AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY TUTOIRAL I SAW OR JUST THE TUTORIAL IS SO LONG BUT THIS TUTOIRAL IS DIFFRENT BECUASE ITS NOT LONG AND I THINK ITS GONNA HELP ME ALOT IAM GONNA SUBSCRIBE JUST FOR THAT I LOVE YOU MAN
Thank you for this! Just did my first stream today and as a musician I noticed my sound was crap! This is gonna help me adjust massively! ❤
Great video, and thank you for being clear, to the point and brief. Once I made those changes I noticed that my Auto Mixer didn't pick background noise any more. However, when I tried to record something to test the new settings. I don't know what happened but my voice started to cutting in and out.
Voice cutting in and out is most likely a problem caused by mixing. Compressors and limiters will do that (they're meant to in music production.) Play around with the settings more; do note that what order you add these plug ins in, is important. Noise gate, then compressor, then limiter is very different to limiter, then compressor, then noise gate. Try those out, I feel the uploader in this vid has a pretty good order. All that's left is for you to check out your settings, and see how it works with your mic and desktop audio.
@@strfkr197 Thanks for getting back to me on this, I will try your suggestions.
This helped me so much for live streaming! Explained a lot better than other tutorials
thank you SOSOSOSO much this was absolutely amazing, i'm a new youtuber so this helps a bunch. i'd watch a video that explains things longer, you've earned yourself a new subscriber!!
Thank you for the very helpful tutorial. Really appreciated when you said "..I'm trying to keep this video extremely short coz I know your time is limited."
godamn those filters make a hell of a difference, really appreciate the help!
Thank you. I'm setting up OBS Studio for the first time today and your video was super helpful.
really thanks for explaining what certain thingies do so you can actually set it up depending on your requirements
Thanks a lot. Being new to TH-cam and OBS I found my youtube videos had voice quality issues. This video has been most helpful!!
That's not what phase cancellation means. Phase cancellation happens when you record something with multiple microphones, and since the sound arrives at each microphone at a slightly different time, the captured waveforms might not line up perfectly and might cancel each other out (You can see it in the picture that one waveform has a positive (+1) amplitude, while the other one has a negative (-1) one (-1+(+1)= 0) resulting in a phasey or hollow sound with decreased low-frequency content. It has nothing to do with distortion, white noise or instruments masking each other. This issue can be fixed either by inverting the polarity on one of the tracks (which flips one of the waveforms upside down) or by ensuring that all of the microphones have the same distance from the sound source (this way the sound will arrive at each microphone at roughly the same time).
If you record your voice with a single microphone, there's not gonna be any phase cancellation. Inverting the polarity isn't gonna make any difference.
Ugh, thanks so much dude! That tinny sound quality was driving me crazy
Finally, I can finally hear myself in my recordings
Most helpful video on this so far, huge difference in quality. Thank you
Thanks man. quick solution after a few hours of frustration. I was using the output from my skype. Didnt occur to me to get a new input from the actual mic. fixed it all!
Thank you so much! That trick instantly leveled up the quality of my recordings
Thanks a lot Man for the simplified guide
Been having a low audio issue on my stream and hence been unable to do much
Cleared up many settings even before I started playing with it
Thanks bro. The compressor made my desktop audio way better
this was really helpful for me so thank you so much I can really tell a difference and the don't be fooled by the title saying lessthan 5 mins and its more than 5 mins dw it was just an explenationof something and you don't have to watch but thank you very much and this is helping all of us make videos
Super informative video but when you increased the volume for demo I was like
“DAMN son what the hell u doing” haha lol
thank you, this will help me with my channels content!
I think you can leave out the phase invert effect since I doesn't make any sense in most cases. The moment you invert the phase you will get phasing issues with other signals. Most noise based sounds won't benefit from this option. Maybe some tune based sounds (like music) can benefit but like I said it will most likely create some issues somewhere else in the frequenzy spectrum.
Thank you, this was useful, my sound on my blue yeti was always a bit off, like everyone else that has one sounded better 😅.... I added the invert polarity and changed my noise gate settings to match yours and it is better, I think.
i was looking for a tutorial to make my audio quality sound worse and clicked this thinking title was decrease obs sound quality 💀
Same lol, I wanted to have a crappy sounding microphone for fun and clicked this video thinking it would explain it, instead I got the complete opposite 💀
LMFAO.... holy crap nothing could prepare me for "for example if i was to sliIIIDDDEEE THISS OOOOVVVEERR HEREEEEEE"
such a good and helpful video thanks, you have got a new subscriber
Thank you very much for the quick and simple guide. This helped me a ton.
This was very helpful so thanks for for that! And thanks for keeping it simple!
Hmmm you might want to clarify that this is about the microphone sound quality in your title. I came here looking for how to fix the quality of the OTHER sounds that OBS records. For example, when I am recording my gameplay and then listen to the clip afterwards, the recorded game sounds/music sound much lower quality than what I originally heard.
Keeping it simple and short, even if this doesn't work, thank you.
Great tutorial, one of the most helpful i have seen
Thank you for all the helpful tips.
Great explaination. This video helped me a lot. Thank you! :)
I used this for my homework thank u
thank u so much now my mic is goldy!!
What about recording for a game? I tried doing so, and I notice the bad audio quality from the recording?
same problem
do all the steps with audio output capture *I think*
That helped me amaznigly, thank you so much
I love you
Thank you! Clear, easy to listen to video that helps greatly 👍🏆
Worked amazing thank you subbed
Damn. My mic has no filter options...
the problem for me is configuring obs desktop and mic, when Im playing some song and says something no one can hear me, because both sounds mix.
Thanks, some of these filters helped!
Do you know why the sound quality on my headphones gets really bad whenever I open the program? I thought this video would be what I'm looking for but whenever I'm recording a game, my own sound quality just drops like an f-bomb, and it also affects my recording.
All audio sources for me have a lot of reverb with no indication where it's coming from. Windows voice recorder picks up my mic just fine, but my game and mic audio in obs is as if I'm in an echo chamber. What should I be looking at?
make sure you dont have two microphone inputs. I had the same problem bc I had my mic as its own input with filters and a seperate one that was already there without filters, causing the buzz and background noise
@@catwitz Thank you bro. You just saved me a whole lot of frustration. I almost cried when it work lol. Thank you again.
I have problems with internal audio quality. I'm capturing the speakers when recording gameplay and the sound is muffled. What can I do about this?
VoidRealms- thank you for the excellent summary. I am wondering if you have any ideas what might be causing my situation: I record film clips with OBS, so I generally don't have any audio processing enabled on OBS itself (since it is recording processed audio, as opposed to my voice). My issue is that when I import the clips into my video editor, they sound louder and harsher, without any effects or changes being applied to them or the audio track in the editor. I can always turn down the volume, but I would rather understand what is causing the discrepancy in the first place. If you have any ideas, please let me know, and thanks again!
it did that for me too lol i got no clue how to fix
Ok so awesome. Saving onto this.
great video helped a lot thanks
Hey, I went live and my volume is very low for listeners but very loud for me. What do I do? (My volume is already up on OBS.
My problem is sound problem with elgato to the point even the sound turns off by itself sometimes
Thanks a lot voidRealms
you are a huge lifesaver.
thank you so much, this was very helpful
noise gate always cut some stuff I speak in the mic so I prefer not use it
If you're cutting some if your speech you lower the threshold. We had to lower ours quite low until my partner's voice want getting cut, but just high enough to cancel our the background noise.
Thank you soooooo much broo, you really helped me alot
Great vid man!
I'm using OBS Studio to digitize VHS and mini DV tapes. Any ideas what the best audio setting for this is? All my audio has this loud/muffled sound like everyone was talking too close to the mic (but I know the original tapes don't sound like that)
Very cool tutorial!!!!
You are life saver. Thanks a lot.
Thanks helped a lot
Super helpfull, Thank you!
when i record in obs the audio is really thin it takes all the bass out i dontknow why any ideas?
thank you so much man this helped
Thanks it really helped!
Can you still filter out things even if it's just a PC mic
Thank you!
I'm just a normal person and my stream will tell me my audio is at 0 and it needs to be normal 128 Kbps I was looking to change that setting
Thx for this so much my videos are going to be so much better thx :)
thank you so much i can now start my yt channel
THANK YOU SOSOSOSOSOOSSOOSOSOSOSOSO MUCH YOU DESERVE A SUB AND A LIKE
dope!
thanks
Thank
😀
Speex = speaks
Hey dude , make a video on livestreaming audio in loud environments like churches...please.. awesome video by the way..
I'll have to look at it but basically the same principle applies You just want to do a noise gate noise suppression along with increasing the gain
@@VoidRealms yeah I did this thx , it's not that crispy audio but it works thx....can u tell what is a sound box and how to use it..
@@KK-sf5em to be barely honest I'm not 100% certain but most of the times a sound box is simply a soundproof box which you would record into
@@VoidRealms thank you soo much , you're the best youtuber ever...you reply every query , thank you so much...subbed you..hope you reach 1M
very helpful
THANK YOU VERY MUCH I M YOUR NEW SUBSCRIBER.
sometimes when i speak, it sounds like i cut out, like the mic isnt picking up my voice, how do i fix this.?
Adjust the noise gate open and close
Thanks so much ;)
thanks a lot!
nice, quick and easy thank u +rep
Thanks alot u saved me
your video was so mush helpfull
My gameplay recordings sound really...tinny? Any thoughts?
I'd say upgrade to a better microphone something like a blue yeti
what did i do it sounds like dogcrap
My audio sounds like a demon i hope this helps
Bro give me a warning next time pls
at 3:40 my ears died rip
much love tho for the info
nice. you work from linux
on linux i mean
i stopped hearing myself bruh
You people never just list the fucking instructions, so we have to listen to your voices and little comments throughout. I could read it like 3 seconds, but I have to wait through all this explanation. Modern internet is stupid.
I am so confused, I have NO filters at all in anything that I looked at. I tried to put my Razer Kraken Tournament Edition to my microphone, it records my audio but its muffled, please send help!
did you just open the filters and do nothing or try to add them? if you didnt try to add them then hit the plus and add the filters. otherwise i cant help
@@catwitz i tried everything there isnt a plus to even add filters
id love to show a screenshot but I cant add one on youtube :(
@@catwitz I legit just seen the plus signs !! apparently my screen was so big it didn't show the bottom of the add filters part.