The Twitch Thread

[Maf]

I’m streaming GG again but this time with a mic

 

https://www.twitch.tv/maf432

 

I haven’t got a good solution for this so come tell me if it’s working ok?

[one-armed dwarf]

Sounds like you're far away.

 

GG sounds (and looks) super clear but you don't.

[DANGERMAN]

yeah, I've been watching a bit and your mic is buried by the game audio. There might be an option in the software you're using to reduce the game audio when speaking, or alter the game audio feed on it separately 

 

Aside from that working well and it looks great

[Maf]

Ok, I’ve turned desktop audio down to half

[Maf]

I dunno if turning the desktop audio down helped at all? It’s difficult because I can’t hear me through the headphones. The only way I could hear myself was on the stream. It seemed ok when testing, but maybe I moved or whatever. Also not confident talking in to a mic! But yeah. I’ll have a better try tomorrow or at the weekend. 

[DANGERMAN]

what app are you using to stream? (not that I'm an expert, I've streamed 3 times this past few weeks, and not for years and years prior to that)

[Maf]

I was using OBS. 

[DANGERMAN]

yeah, I can't see an option to drop the game audio automatically on there, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a way

[Sly Reflex]

You should have two inputs for sound. One will be desktop sounds and the other is your mic. Aim for the desktop to be just touching yellow and your voice to becoming into yellow. Adjust the sliders accordingly, then once you get a nice set up, do everything else through the game, you can fine tune the game sound in game to make sure it's not mad loud.

[Maf]

Thanks @Sly Reflex. I will have round 2 tomorrow or Saturday, see if I can get it better 

[Sly Reflex]

Occasionally you will go into red, but as long as you're not maxing it out you'll sound fine, just give yourself a little bit of leeway for those big jumps in sound from you or the game and it won't peak to a point where it's unlistenable.

 

Plus when it does peak people will know that shit's going down, either you're pissed off or excited.

 

 

[Maf]

I’m usually disappointed when playing GG so staying in the yellow should be fine lol

[Maf]

Trying GG and mic again. Sounds good on my iPad but see if it stays good

[one-armed dwarf]

I just clicked your stream and it sounds like some sort of air con or something or traffic in the background

 

IMO, look into RTX voice. Or it might be called nvidia broadcast now or something. It filtered out everything but your voice (or at least tries to) with AI shit. Also it will filter out the clicky sounds of your controller

 

 

[Sly Reflex]

I was going to mention this as well, been watching for maybe an hour now and the stream quality is very nice, but the sound it pretty bad, in that we can hear everything in the background. You can put a noise gate on the mic to prevent this, or use the RTX voice to try and get rid of all the unwanted stuff.

 

Also pay attention to chat.

[Maf]

Thanks for the advice. I will look in to it this week to look at what I can do to try cancel the noise out. 
 

Was anybody chatting or left a message? I had the chat box open but it was empty the whole time. I didn’t see anything. 

[Maf]

Think I’ve figured out the mic now. OBS and some audio filters I can put on and now, according to the stream on my IPad, only my voice and the game is coming through

 

https://www.twitch.tv/maf432

 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

You're still really hard to hear tbh. How good is this mic?

[Maf]

Probably not that good at the price. Although I do also sit really far away. I'm only supposed to be inches away from it but not possible unless I was holding it.

 

Those audio filters worked pretty well I thought. It seemed to successfully cancel out button taps, mouse clicks and white noise

[mmmark]

I streamed to twitch from XBSX yesterday. It was a bit odd having to open up the twitch app and go to the broadcast tab but it worked alright. Or so I thought. 
 

Streaming from PS4 Pro I can do so 1080p and it look fine. On XBSX 1080p while there’s movement it becomes a pixelated mess.

 

 

And a bit of an oversight, the chat isn’t visible on screen. Not even a notification that you have any to check for on a different device.