Hi, I'm Stryxnine. I'm an esports broadcast producer and audio producer. In this chost I'll be explaining the key ways to immediately improve the audio on your livestreams.
Why should I care?
Glad you asked! The biggest reason is because advertisements are fucking loud. Unfortunately, with advertisers constantly in a loudness war with each other, we have to care about our audio levels so when ads pop up for our viewers they don't scare the everloving piss out of them with the immediate difference in volume. Beyond that, we wanna make sure we can be heard over the game and the music playing in the background.
Ok, so how do I do it?
It's pretty easy, but it's also a bit of a process!
This is all stuff I had to learn on my own when I started streaming that I wish was more apparent (especially as someone who never had to mix live audio levels before). How nice that someone has put it all in one handy little post. :)
I feel like a lot of new streamers also don't quite understand how big of an effect having well balanced (not too quiet) audio can have on keeping an audience. Please, I implore you. Listen to your own streams. Fix your audio levels.
