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Vex @vexatiousIdler6/2/2023, 2:06 AM

Hex Maniac Aicaya @Aicaya

Stryx-9 @hootOS11/27/2022, 4:37 AM

OBS Audio tips from an audio producer

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!

#livestream #livestreaming #livestreamer #twitch #Twitch streamer #audio

Hex Maniac Aicaya @Aicaya6/2/2023, 1:31 AM

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walking mirage @atomicthumbs11/27/2022, 6:20 AM

attaching the sidechain to my kick drum so my viewers can crank up the bass. untz untz untz untz

Chris/PanicSwitch @panicswitch12/19/2022, 3:41 AM

Just found this post, super helpful! Thanks for the info!

Stryx-9 @hootOS12/19/2022, 6:37 AM

hell yeah, glad to be of assistance!

Jama @Jama6/2/2023, 1:12 AM

I had somewhat similar settings, so hey, good start, but filters are where I needed some help, beyond the noise gate. Thanks for sharing!

Stryx-9 @hootOS6/2/2023, 1:16 AM

of course! if you need any extra help feel free to hit me up on discord at the username on the bottom of the post, and i can getcha sorted :P

Jama @Jama6/2/2023, 1:19 AM

The guide was good for tuning my gate and limiter, I had them set a little too aggressively. I'll keep that in mind though!

Cariad Heather @Cariad6/2/2023, 1:18 AM

The audio levels you shared would have been so useful to me years ago when I didn’t know and had to trial and error this all. ❤️

Stryx-9 @hootOS6/2/2023, 1:23 AM

yeah likewise lol. my audio when i just started out sucked until i found out you could actually edit the audio in real-time. from there it was just applying my existing music production knowledge to voices and audio sources, but many don't have that background to begin with. so i hope i explained it simply enough for non-producers to understand!

Alex Zandra @zandravandra6/2/2023, 1:29 AM

oh my gosh thank you so much, this is so helpful!!

Stryx-9 @hootOS6/2/2023, 1:36 AM

glad i could help!

🌊@wave6/2/2023, 1:30 AM

thanks, nice and concise.

when i streamed some years back i used a cracked Reaper DAW for my mic processing and i don't really remember why i thought that was better than the relevant OBS-native filters (maybe OBS didn't have a good compressor yet or something). it was certainly more finicky though.

Stryx-9 @hootOS6/2/2023, 1:35 AM

that's certainly a wackier, more resource-intensive way of doing things lol. and to be fair, OBS' native filters were pretty lacking. but what's there right now is pretty good (except their equalizer, i'd still recommend ppl get Rea-EQ for that. nice and light, highly customizable, and it gets the job done)

Jack @MrNuclearMonster6/2/2023, 3:59 AM

I recently started using this audio mastering audio plugin to get better audio because viewers were complaining that my mic was too quiet https://github.com/trummerschlunk/master_me which makes it a lot easier since I can’t see the colors of the meters properly. OBS has color blind options but that doesn’t really seem any better.