🤌 How to get PERFECT stream audio using ONLY OBS effects! (OBS 29 Upward Compressor & 3-Band EQ)

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OBS Studio 29 comes with a lot of awesome features, but some of the coolest ones have to do with audio - features I've been requesting! Here's how to use the Upward Compressor and 3-band EQ in OBS Studio 29 and how to get perfect stream or recording audio using only effects built into OBS.
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TIMECODES:
00:00 Your stream audio sucks
00:11 Lots of updates in OBS 29!
00:40 New audio filters!
01:15 Neat Mics King Bee II
02:02 Gain Staging
04:15 Processing Stage 1 - EQ
05:01 Processing Chain Order
05:10 Mic Technique Matters!
06:09 3-Band Equalizer Setup (Correction)
08:42 Compressor Setup
13:18 Limiter for Peak Prevention
14:25 3-Band EQ Setup (Flavor)
16:08 Noise Suppression/Removal/Gate
19:01 Upward Compressor setup for Game Sound
23:30 Your stream sounds perfect now!
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@naveentechs Жыл бұрын

been waiting for this love all your OBS videos keep it up :D

@djjinoreacts Жыл бұрын

Your sound is so much better these days. You had some videos where the mic sounded too compressed. I've learned so much from your videos and applied it to my channel over the years. You and Podcastage have been the greatest influence on the audio quality of my streams. Thanks for everything! You deserve more subs and recognition.

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@Denigirl Жыл бұрын

I had been struggling with my audio as of late. And not only is this a great step by step video to get your audio sounding really clean and nice, but it also teaches you what all of these terms in all of the audio filters mean, so that from now on you understand how each one works and can make adjustments comfortably yourself! Thank you so much for this great resource!

@theMiklaws Жыл бұрын

I think this is the only tutorial on all of KZfaq that covers OBS filters with actual knowledge and without winging it and choosing whatever settings work for their mic and calling it a day. Actually helped me, thank you!

@somewhatfrog Жыл бұрын

8:10 there is, record your voice without any filters, add this recording as media source, enable monitoring on it, then apply and adjust filters on it in real time and see/hear what you like the most. Great tutorial!

@jntracksgaming Жыл бұрын

Was about to suggest this, too. Easy example loop! (Glad I check comments first)

@grandpahgamer3526 6 ай бұрын

Can you turn the filters on and off as you record? Then just play it back and listen to the changes? I have not tried yet so I thought I would ask. Or do the filters, even if eyed out, not change while the same recording is still going?

@somewhatfrog 6 ай бұрын

yes, changes apply in real time, but it might be harder to differentiate the small changes just on recording itself compared to being able to enable/disable on the fly while listening@@grandpahgamer3526

@ILG-Mobile 2 ай бұрын

The fact I didnt think of this myself is depressing! Thanks!

@Naaackers Жыл бұрын

Perfect video that captures everything you need to know about setting up a great sounding stream and a dope sounding microphone. This will be the first place I send people to give them a great introduction into what it takes and how learn! Great video Epos, thank you.

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!! Huge praise

@evaldas249 Жыл бұрын

Ayyy, I've been waiting for this video to drop since OBS 29 came out! Thank you!

@DizConnected Жыл бұрын

You are my go to source for OBS audio and video settings! Thank you for all your hard work!

@FramePerfectJump 5 ай бұрын

Such an amazing tutorial. You actually explain what everything is doing.

@papateachme Жыл бұрын

You're AWESOME, man!

@CrunchtimeDiego-bo1wy 24 күн бұрын

I've Been Putting off fixing my audio bc all the videos I saw over complicated things or tried to go to fast, expecting me to understand terms and concepts I had no idea about. this was simple, straight to the point, a very easy to follow along with

@givemethesantahatfoo Жыл бұрын

Yet another banger, epos! Even though my audio setup is fine (thanks to you and podcastage!) Your videos are so well made and high quality, it's still very enjoyable to watch. Love the new mic sound too!

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

Yay, thank you!

@Malforian 10 ай бұрын

After months of trying to get my audio better i rewatched this video following the steps one by one, then moving these setting sinto my GoXLR instead of OBS and I appreciate you so much Epos, finally i have audio that I like, especially after lowering the Gain on my SM7B to 52 and then adding back in Post, its so much cleaner sound and less annoying mouth/breathing pickup... literally makes me want to make a new video now for channel. Thanks for all your guides

@HeavyLiftSkilling Жыл бұрын

It's so weird, I just searched for this help video and it was just uploaded within the last 24 hours. Thank you much EposVox :)

@jolilottie 6 ай бұрын

thank you so so, so much for this! learning audio has been something of a crash course for me, and yours is the most helpful video I've found; I don't shy away from learning something new, but you've saved me from a lot of tears and frustration. (and thank you for including break reminders, I needed them and I'm probably not the only one!)

@imAgentR Жыл бұрын

Such a great video. Every time I have it dialed in, I learn I can tweak it just a lil more for an even better presentation. Appreciate it 😎

@AgentVincent Жыл бұрын

Awesome guide! I'm excited to try out these settings and filters to clean up my stream sounds.

@Pilzinsel64Pilz Жыл бұрын

The best tutorial and explination I've ever seen! Thank you so much for this, were looking for a long time for such a good video!

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@SebsDuran Жыл бұрын

This is phenomenal. Gonna fix my audio today

@Micalex Жыл бұрын

As a "music producer", I always found adding a hi-pass filter to remove the extreme low end at the start nof your chain helps to get a cleaner signal for later compression and it also helps noise suppression to be a bit more precise as the extreme low end takes a lot more energy to be produce. most of the time its just the low end that triggers your compressor and limiters.

@TaylorDaleWright 10 ай бұрын

This was super insightful. Thank you! I just got a Deity D4 mic and was surprised at how much ambient noise it was picking up for a min shotgun mic, but now with these filters, I'm getting a good result, and I feel like I know how to tune things as I go.

@Mako_Racing 26 күн бұрын

I watched several videos that were alarmingly...not optimal...before finding this one. Really well done.

@EposVox 26 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@RudyRayLDU Жыл бұрын

just found your videos and it help me take my streaming set up to the NEXT LEVEL!! thank you so much and keep make great content!

@slavic_fox98 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video tutorial! Out of so many tutorials I've watched, this was the best for solving my audio issues. The same settings you used, worked perfectly for me.

@cloudPES Жыл бұрын

This was incredible advice man, thank you 😀

@TheRealClaylex Жыл бұрын

Ty for this my dude! Gonna test this out with my stream this week

@YeetCrew Жыл бұрын

Amazing video! ill be implementing this whole video later today.

@rqgerthat Жыл бұрын

very in depth, and very helpful! thanks!

@TheDkmariolink 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this amazing tutorial!

@BackPackGearsYT Жыл бұрын

most helpful vid i ever watched for audio thank you brotha

@CoffeeOnPluto Жыл бұрын

BROOOOO MY MIC SOUNDS 1 MILLION TIMES BETTER, THANK YOU!!!! I spent months and watched tons of vids to try to get my mic to sound good on obs. None of them has gotten my mic to sound so perfect as this video did!! I Love You Bro!😭🙏

@derpymoose9948 7 ай бұрын

Good information, well explained, thank you

@FrankMather Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you for sharing. I'm getting better with my audio, while streaming.

@MohsenTheKnight21 Жыл бұрын

thanks your obs guide videos are really helpful

@JoshJoshJoshJoshJoshJosh 11 ай бұрын

I came here just to figure out how to get the sound of my AC not be picked up during my stream, but now my mic sounds WAY better as well. Thanks so much! I'll definitely be checking out more of your vids. Thank for the comprehensive yet easy-to-follow video. Edit: I would like to add that I have a portable AC like two feet from me that makes a lot of noise, so I followed the steps you laid out, BUT I did *Noise Suppression* below Gain and then a *VST Plugin* underneath the noise suppression. Then I followed the steps you laid out after Gain. There's a tiny bit more to the way I laid things out, but it helped a lot with my very low-end mic.

@AJCoReTV Жыл бұрын

super helpful video

@ggzii Жыл бұрын

thanks for this

@Karsteski 2 ай бұрын

I love you for this video. Thanks! :)

@EposVox 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@sheryzoneyt Жыл бұрын

very nice video bro helps me a lot thx

@ApexLodestar Жыл бұрын

WOW this is PERFECT timing. I just got the Maono DM30 but couldn't solve how to tame the peaking. You're awesome, EposVox!

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

@BoysVideoo Жыл бұрын

This Is AWESOME INFORMATION --- GOOD JOB

@savagealleycat 2 ай бұрын

a year and some change later, and I'm just now realizing that the ORDER of the filters matter. My mic reset for some reason and I just couldn't get the right audio again. You saved my whole stream dude. Thank you!

@DannyUntamed Жыл бұрын

This video was great very informative. This has taught me a few things I can do with mixing and mastering. Thank you

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@drewlegends3156 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Have watched other youtubers explain the same things and not one of them mentioned that the filters need to be organized

@TheSolidscorpius Жыл бұрын

this tutorial was awesome, thanks man.. I will be sending anyone needing help with this, to here

@spicywe1ner Жыл бұрын

You are a godsend! Thank you so much

@Nienna_Asyare 3 ай бұрын

oh my gosh, I was so stumped as to why I was sounding so awful and quiet, I can't believe I didn't even think of eqs/gain, this video helped massively! Thank you! ^_^

@Prince_EssVR Жыл бұрын

Thank you so so so so much I've been having so much trouble with this stuff I followed another persons tutorial and didn't understand anything I was doing and sounded terribly but now at least I understand what all the different things do and I feel like my audio is way way way better you're doing gods work thank you

@finalmakerr1 11 ай бұрын

Great explanation 🙏

@NicDroid Жыл бұрын

Bless this video.

@deepfrieddevelopment3123 Жыл бұрын

This video is crazy good! I had a bit of trouble setting up the ducking for my music based on the explanation given. For anyone having problems, I was trying to set the threshold around my talking voice and then nothing was happening, but it seems like you need to set the threshold lower than your talking voice, and when your voice crosses that line it will duck in relation to how far the line was crossed. As a loose example, if the voice is hovering around -8db, and you set your ducking compressor to have a threshold of -22db, then when you start talking it it will duck your music by ~12db. Maybe this is incorrect and the ratio is at play here as well, but that is what I observe. Either way, thanks for the amazing video!

@MystikBlaze 11 ай бұрын

you are amaizing!

@codycroosh3073 Жыл бұрын

Nice I’m gonna use some of these tips to help illuminate that HissI’ve been getting. You were right lowering the gain seemed to help out a ton.

@MetaMarmite 9 ай бұрын

Great advice -- Thank-you! It's made a terrific improvement to my gaming recordings #thumbsup

@1v9khan19 9 ай бұрын

incredible video I love u

@mathemitnullplan Жыл бұрын

thanks mate! the best explaination for obs so far and it really worked. this video came just in time, i was close to release low level audio for upcoming videos, but now that changed. cool video would be how to setup a screenrecording in 4k hdr (codecs colors and so on).

@EposVox Жыл бұрын

HDR recording guides are here: HDR Content Creation Guides kzfaq.info/sun/PLzo7l8HTJNK_HIUFhcIqOKSmlz0u0VJpB

@Miguel_Pratz Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! 10/10

@ILG-Mobile 2 ай бұрын

Very useful explanation even for an audio novice! Thank you!

@EposVox 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@permsn Жыл бұрын

Thx Maestro, gonna check it strait away ;-)

@permsn Жыл бұрын

Wow sound improved a lot, still need to fiddle around but what an improvement, thx again ;-)

@ENunn Жыл бұрын

is there a way i can sidechain two sources? my chat audio is separated from my desktop audio and when i sidechain both my mic and my chat, my desktop audio gets really quiet when my mic and chat audio are active at the same time.

@ronniepaulinc Жыл бұрын

this was brilliant, my multitrack mixer went down and I meixed my audio that way... This is way better.. Brilliant!!!

@bm______ Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Pinceau2k 6 күн бұрын

Great! A lot of content creator should watch this!

@Quelkaima Жыл бұрын

After much consternation and "I'm never gonna be able to figure this out!", I did it. After watching it all the way through one time, I re-watched it with OBS open, seeking to different points to follow through with you step-by-step. While my streams will still not have great audio, it will be vastly improved! Since I cannot (for whatever reason) use Exeldro's Source Record plugin, adding in redundant, unfiltered audio tracks for capture card and PC audio that aren't sent to the audience but are saved with the video allows me to clip highlights with the game audio only. I'll be making a backup of this new setup because I have to reinstall Windows 11. That's another story for another time, however!

@bubbabubbys 16 күн бұрын

thank you!

@NoNameFoundTV Жыл бұрын

Explanation about sound isn't the only amazing thing, the windows XP taskbar too! A nice retro touch. Much love brother, maybe you can explain how you did it! ❤ Keep it up! ❤

@vick7848 Жыл бұрын

This is the greatest obs sound video ever made

@DirtyCes Жыл бұрын

I wonder if OBS can have a virtual mic plugin that other programs like discord etc can select as a microphone, you did all the work to find the perfect settings in obs I wish there was a way to carry that over to other apps

@MedixQuiz 6 ай бұрын

this improved my sound MASSIVELY. Previously, it was always clipped while speaking (now i know its because the time-delay "attack" was set to 6ms instead of 3ms), the noise reduction didnt really work well. It either reduced waaay too much or you could still hear cars outside which was unfortunate. And then my voice was very low, I had to talk so loud that it hurt after 10 minutes. Really stressful. Also you get a headache pretty quickly and the whole process is not enjoyable. Well. Your video did wonders! Now when talking VERY calmly, the audio is really good to hear. Loud. But also sounds nice. And background noise as well as mouse clicking and keyboard tapping is cut out. And the limiter prevents my loudest moments from being deleted. Overall a very nice tutorial. Thanks for that! I have a rode smartlav microphone. Nothing special at all. around 50$ I think it costs. Anyways. The sound is more than good for my expectations and I am really happy now. Thanks again man.

@mattL1ghts Жыл бұрын

love the glasses 🤓

@whyrule Жыл бұрын

How well does this apply to the Go XLR / Mini? I know the stream setup is a bit different using that piece of hardware. Awesome guide, as usual! Thank you for your content!

@eademsedaliter 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, this helped a lot. Second thanks for the clear instructions

@HablemosdeRunning Жыл бұрын

What's up friend, do you happen to have a video on your channel where you teach how to record and edit your audio? but I'm talking specifically about the audio that you record in off. Sounds great!! I have a Rode NTG but so far I have not achieved excellent recording quality.

@Bayesic Жыл бұрын

I've noticed when I follow the instructions here I still get a lot of weird clipping specifically with short a sounds like "cat" or "ow" type sounds like in the word "how" any idea why this is happening and is it just a problem with the mic? I'm using a Blue Yeti Again I'm not actually getting any clipping it's just those particular sounds that sound super janky

@Bayesic Жыл бұрын

Ok nevermind figured it out. What I did was lower the mic volume in the sound settings of windows 11. Had to drop it all the way down to like 30 before running through the gain stuff in this video. But thanks you're a life saver!

@Raglarak Жыл бұрын

I just came back to do this tutorial again, and I also watch your other 2 audio videos. I noticed that my voice is kind of loud and cracking, compared to yours and with other streamers, I'm currently running a shure mv7 with a goxlr mini, imo the problem is comming from my GOXLR settings, by any chance do you have another video, or do you know what should be my EQ, Compressor, etc. in GOXLR?

@MASSAGEMANMESSENGER Жыл бұрын

this completely changed my youtube channel ty

@louaguado995 5 ай бұрын

Great info, thanks! Makes my cheap $20 mic sound so much better 😁

@heaven-uh6zy Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@JamesHouston 11 ай бұрын

Has anybody had problems where the sidechain compression is out of sync with the mic that's driving the ducking? I don't have any delays set up, yet when I speak, it takes a bit for the background music to dip down, then after I stop speaking it takes a bit for it to come back. This isn't attack/release settings, it appears to be a bug or something. Any ideas? The sync issue can only be observed when watching the stream or recording. It behaves normally from my perspective when I'm streaming (I hear it dip at the right time in my monitoring headphones) but there's a delay in playback/on the stream.

@Jason22Douce Жыл бұрын

Trying to make my headset mic bearable has been challenging. Will implement these things and see what's what

@jfilliaplays 10 ай бұрын

thank you for this video man, it really helped me now i sound like a narrator from the history channel and its fantastic lol I just started using a webcam and applying filters after a year of streaming i feel reborn again lol P.S zero much

@sirdeadknight Жыл бұрын

The gain in the obs filter is clean? Nice, didn't think it would be, I only put 1-2 on it before but I may tune down my mic and bring it up a little in obs. I love that bee mic, I'm on a deity shotgun mic and it's pretty good too. Your mic is mounted on a tall boom, do you have a link? Did you add an extension to it?

@AndresReviews 11 ай бұрын

You can loop a monitoring sequence, for that just do a test recording and use it as a media source on a loop + apply filters to it

@ChuchoTheCatLord 8 ай бұрын

followed this and learned a bit more on filters and what they do and this is coming form a musician lol the way you explain it is so simple it just clicks... anyway I do have an Issue .. I set up my mixer and everything but when I stream I only get the "game audio" being captured mic doesn't come through the stream at all and you can see it "peaking" so no idea why stream isn't getting it, any suggestions? edit: even the audio ducking works but no mic sound at all

@frxxdqm8980 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Faze Jev

@Kevin700P Жыл бұрын

21:04 Damn. I didn’t know that…. That’s so cool. Thx ❤

@tonytuthill 11 ай бұрын

GOAT

@fitzyshow 8 ай бұрын

SOMEONE help! When I’m playing Call of duty it’s so loud when people are shooting and stuff, so I adjust the levels to where it sounds fine but when I watch back my old live streams I have to turn my tv up all the way and it’s not even loud…. Other KZfaq videos like this one is very loud on my tv… how can I keep my audio levels the same on Stream labs but make it so my videos are loud when watching them on KZfaq????

@stephennewhouse6271 Жыл бұрын

Do you have any suggestions on getting rid of loud crowd noises in the background? Like say at a convention.

@Scotty_Elgin_Nunn 3 ай бұрын

You are awesome, I have been struggling with why my microphone was being muffled and I couldn't figure it out but with your walkthrough, I sound golden. I do have a question though, So with the 3-band equalizer is there a reason you'd use those two instead of something like Voxengo Marvel GEQ? I tried what you recommended and I almost like it's good but i have too much base. Either way great video

@EposVox 3 ай бұрын

If you have an EQ VST you like, go for it.

@ilyaa108 Жыл бұрын

Thanks [*thumbs up*]

@hugofaria8 10 ай бұрын

Do you have some tips for music in this mix. some games dont have good soudtrack and when i put spotfy to playn some music some times its louder or too quiet.. or the soud of the game disapear...

@Kordanor Жыл бұрын

Something related and maybe worth another video: Distances and Echo. Essentially in two scenarios: Free movement and Narration. Let me explain what I mean: In your case you are sitting infront of a microphone, with a more or less consistent distance. Small differences don't matter too much in a stream, they maybe even add in depth (like audio reflects, that you are turning around). However if you move a lot, lean back and have your head positioned rather differently, your sound will be all over the place in case of volume and echo. Thats one reason I am still using a headset: It does have a consistent distance to my mouth, meaning the volume and echo is always (almost) the same. I guess the nvidia echo removal could help (I cant test, graphics card too old), and for volume maybe the upward compressor. But there are the two specific usecases I mentioned in the beginning when it's espeically important to keep consistency in mind: 1. In Narration, when you don't want any variety at all. If you are narrating a documentary for example, 2 takes at 2 different days should not sound differently, just because the one day the microphone was 3 cm closer. It's already bad enough that you naturally can sound differently every day (if you slept bad, more nose problems whatever), these issues add to it. For narration I use a Yeti microphoen and I try to make sure I always got exactly the same setup and distance. But options to adjust that automatically (again echo remover and upward compressor) would be nice. 2. When you are at a workbench and there is no way you got your microphone 20 cm infront of you. Maybe you are using a shotgun. But because of the range of movement and differences in distances the voice will sound vastly different with different volume. Here adjustments would also be nice to have. That workbench could also just be a cooking livestream, or if you are livstreaming how you are soldering something, or putting together a PC.

@WereCatf Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I needed/wanted. Now, I do have one question that's related, but not exactly on the topic: what microphone would you recommend to someone who has very limited budget and who *doesn't* like having a microphone all up in their face, like you have?

@ScionSetsuna Жыл бұрын

As someone who has a goxlr and shure smb7 mic, I can use these settings without having to do anything in the goxlr or will I still need to adjust certain settings like the compressor to make myself sound a bit louder in things like discord?

@brunoamiguel Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this guide! If you ever do a guide for this in Linux and are using Pipewire, you can use Easy Effects to apply extra filters before it reaches OBS.

@palomasgaming Жыл бұрын

I need help - when recording I can hear when I pull air pretty loudly, and it makes me sound tired or short of breath at all times - I tried changing distance, angles, noise suppression levels, and still the same!!! Can anyone suggest what to do here? Take down the mids and lows maybe??

@Kevin700P Жыл бұрын

What mic are you using ? Using a noise gate or decreasing the gain help to decrease the noise.

@xRedSock Жыл бұрын

hey nice video short question, when i apply all these filters and gain, i sound extremally loud and i cant filter out my breathing (im a heavy breather because i have chronic Bronchitis and asthma) no matter if i use noise suppression or a noise gate, but when i turn the gain off i sound normal, idk its hard to explain, aslong i only peak sometimes in the lower yellow part, i sound fine, but when i use gain to push my voice really up into the yellow/red part is sound loud/aggressive and i can hear my breathing

@g-wizz. Жыл бұрын

I added the upward compressor to my audio source but not it is causing my low sounds to be cut out and choppy. Is there a more in depth breakdown of the upward compressor to help fine tune the sounds?

@jenks_TV 7 ай бұрын

First off, THANK YOU! Second, what about an "Expander" for noise suppression? I've found those seem to give me better results in OBS. What are your thoughts? Oh, also, where would you recommend placing a de-esser in the chain?