u/Fruit_Punch86

When the NPC has more ammo than respect for the briefing...

Hey guys,
i'm so desperate that i'm posting on reddit about this, because i have the hope you guys can end this Odyssey. My mic sounds like a 50€ mic. It was never good, but I could compensate a lot in the past by just being loud (but now that new people live in the appartment under us and complain about the noise while streaming, i got a open headset and use "normal" voice for streaming). So i needed to rearrange my entire setup and this is where the nightmare started. After countless hours of trying around (with plugins and without), watching YT tutorials and struggle, this is the best i could produce: https://voca.ro/1fJTe9KNveCe

My current hardware setup:
- Rode NT USB+
- Hanging on an mic arm with a pop filter
- Position: 15cm from my face at 60° angle (yes, the correct side is facing my face)
- Gaming PC with high specs
- Room is 3m long, 1,50m wide and 2,30 high. I covered the walls and ceiling with pyramid foam to counter echo

Software setup:
-OS Windows 10
-OBS updated
-Rode Connect updated, firmware of mic updated
-Windows audio enhancements turned OFF
- Before i started running it through Rode Connect, the mic volume was set at 69.

OBS Setup:
-OBS is getting the Signal from Rode connect, to avoid Windows messing with it
- Noise Gate (Close Threshold -55dB, Open Thredhold -45dB, Attack 5ms, Hold 200ms, Release 150ms)
- Noise Suppression RNNoise
- 3-Band Equalizer (High +2dB, Mid -1.9dB, Low -0.8dB)
- Kompressor (Ratio 3.5:1, Threshold -23.30dB, Attack 6ms, Release 60ms, Output Gain 8.8dB)
- TDR Nova De-Esser (Split) (Q0.83, 10.6hz, Threshold -34.1dB, Ratio 2.5:1, Attack 2ms, Release 20ms)
- Limiter (-1dB, Release 60ms)

I tried replacing the OBS EQ with TDR Nova, tried to include an expander, removing it, tried with and without noise supprression. Overall i spent a lot of time in the past 3 days trying to improve and fix this.

My problems are:

1. When speaking, you still can hear the keyboard and mouse. I tried to counter this, but then parts of my words would be chopped off.
2. My voice just sounds bad. Like, this is far from "youtube" or "streaming" quality. For my normal videos outside gaming i'm using a DJI Mic mini and that produces out of the box a better quality than my 150€ microphone :'D People with a elgato mic even have better out-of-the-box-sound than my mic.

Thanks for taking the time to read all of this fellas <3