OBS Studio - Advanced Mic Settings (Noise Removal, Compressor, Noise Gate)

How to set up your Microphone professionally in OBS Studio for your Twitch or YouTube Gaming Livestreams. In this video, we go into detail looking at the OBS Microphone Filters: Noise Suppression, Compressor, Noise Gate, and Gain Filter.

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0. Introduction 0:00
1. Basic Audio Setup 2:40
2. Noise Suppression 4:36
3. Noise Gate 6:47
4. Compressor 10:17
5. Gain Filter 13:22
6. Outro 13:58

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[MiltonRosaEnglishforLife]

I spent three days trying to fix my audio in OBS. Your video was the only one that explained the meaning of each setting and what they do in a very didactical way without rushing it for beginners. I finally got to fix my audio. Thanks, man.

[ajbits]

Great tut. A few notes: a compressor increases soft as well as reducing loud (avg level). gain should be below noise filters and above compress. noise gate should be (subjective) at the top to reduce (cpu) work on noise filter if using it, because it can cause encoder lag with slower systems. The filters are processed top down. I prefer to use noise gate only to avoid voice distortion since the background noise is pretty much drowned out by my voice anyway; and if it isn't, the environment is too loud. Of course I use a dynamic mic instead of condenser to cut down on outside noise, so keep that in mind too.

[entityrush]

Exactly what I was looking for, I've just started using OBS and when I found and opened the Compressor I had no idea what the settings really meant. Thanks!

[ZachNCheese]

Literally so helpful and SO clear. No questions, no errors. Perfect video

[sirlarkiin]

Started streaming not too long ago(about a week or two) and ive been watching your videos the whole way through to help make my stream better. Thank you so much, zero complaints. You are the hero we all need <3

[virtual_intel]

I love that you focus only on what the viewer needs to know. Great job on this tutorial. Somehow I figured all this out on my own playing around with OBS. The VST plugins audio filters I discovered helps as well, but aren't as easy to figure out. I did my best with my settings on using them, and sometimes it crashes my pc, but lately it's been working fine.

[LiftingNerdBro]

Hey Pete!

Thanks for the great the video.

I just want to add that in case distortion, at high audio levels happens for any of you guys - try moving the "compressor" filter to the top, so it takes priority first.

To do this, right-click the cog icon, go into filters, then select the compressor filter and press the "^" (up arrow). This solved my issues with my sound getting distorted when "yelling" into the microphone.

My setup looks like this:
- Compressor
- Noise suppression
- Noise Gate
- Gain

Best
Lifting

[OverloadComedy]

This has helped me greatly, especially how spoke about each filter. Thank you.

[Jolt]

I love you for putting the timestamps for each filter in the description. Great video, mate. Thank you

[Phil_Goodman]

thank you so much for posting this, a veteran streamer here and I just been in the office for so long that i completely forgot ALL of these settings and this was a great refresher to get me back in the game!

[Alice-lhli]

So I have streamed, mostly as a hobby, for roughly 6 - 7 years. In all of that time I've struggled with audio and it's always been a pretty huge issue. I've tried looking things up and most of the time if not all the time, it was confusing and got me nowhere. Your video was an extreme help, it actually got me to a point to where I actually think it sounds good. So I wanted to say thanks and say it was extremely helpful!

[ASMRMuzz]

This is excellent, thank you! I have some pretty noisy fans which play havoc with my recordings. I can't wait to try this when I get home!

[DaritKazua]

With a single video you helped me with every single one of my effects that I wanted on my microphone using OBS. Ya'll did a fantastic job (and it was moderately soothing too for some reason haha!)

[jadewolfy]

This helped so much I was having problem with my pitch getting to loud and my birds in the back ground. But after i followed your video and adjusted it for my video, I couldn't help my self i was so happily in tears it finally sounded the way i wanted it to! I have been trying to fix this for a YEAR!

[yogwaves]

for the compression, if you compensate the threshold gain reduction by turning up the gain in the compressor it sounds less muffled

[phalonreactss]

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this! I was running into issues with my snowball and this literally took out all the background!

[damienjordan]

Thank you. You consistently deliver the best videos on OBS Studio features and functions.

[carlosolo]

You're tutorial is short, sweet and simple which is 100% of the content I look for when it comes to software help! Thanks!

[catmandan_yt]

Thanks for all your tips mate :) Been watching them to improve my recording quality.

[xenonwj]

Holy Crap. I literally found these filters this morning at 3 am and stayed up for 3 hours trying to figure it out. And low and behold a video is uploaded about it a couple hours later. I actually had all the filters on this video except compression. Going to go add it now. Thank you man!!!!