
By doing this, you’ll have a good baseline idea of what the mic can and will pick up without these filters, along with how your voice sounds before you apply these filters. Now let’s get started.Ĭlicking on the cog wheel “ settings” beside the mic (Pic 1) that you have connected, you will see a menu like this (Pic 2): Mixer Box, with your Mic of choice, pre-settings Settings Menu on your Mic with no filters


Play around and record a few videos by getting extremely loud, yelling, dropping your voice, stepping away from the mic or having someone do something in the background. The problem with this is that you’ll most likely not have those high decibel levels being hit yet, or a lot of background noise happening at that moment. You’ll notice that, if you have already streamed or recorded with your mic, that you already sound “ok” straight out of the box. So given most streamers or content creators have already gotten to the point where they have at least connected the mic into their streaming software, we are going to start from here. I do recommend checking out this article, although it is a bit dated and is using older screenshots from previous version of the software, as it is where I pulled definitions: I will note, all definitions for filters will be pulled directly from, and referenced. already built in with free overlays and scene transitions, so I just stayed with SLOBS and it’s a nice middle ground. Myself, I tend to like the ease of accessibility of SLOBS and the pre-sets, CloudBot, alerts, etc. OBS itself is more customizable, allowing you to make minuscule changes to everything with very little “set in stone” settings or walls in place, so a lot of veteran streamers tend to move to it once they feel comfortable with SLOBS. It’s the exact same software with a pretty bow and a bit more user friendly, which was nice when I was a new streamer. If you hadn’t noticed, SLOBS is basically OBS with a better user interface. Most streaming services have similar set-ups, so I’m going to focus on the main two, since they are very similar and the most popular. In today’s session, we are going to cover setting up your Mic settings on your PC through your OBS of choice.

As promised, here is part two, or technically part 1A of our new series based around streaming, and how to effectively stream with minimal out of pocket expense.
