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Before you submit, read these community guidelines:.A subreddit dedicated to learning about creating Let's Plays, made by redditors for redditors!Let's Play (Sometimes called Learn to play): One or more people that record themselves playing video games through screenshots or captured video (Mostly the latter). This can be any game, from Hunie Pop to Fallout 4.Usually Let's Play videos consist of jokes (Good, bad, and/or corny), frustration, and bewilderment by the ones playing. Some also explain gameplay, easter eggs, and general trivia pertaining to the game being played.Join the Steam GroupWeekly super threads.New to lets plays and looking for a place to start?Who do we like?Want to stream or watch live gameplay?Join the Discord serverMake sure to read the before submitting. I purchased this mic after hearing someone use it online as it sounded comparable to the Yeti. I cannot understand why the audio that I get out of this mic sounds so terrible.
I am approximately two inches away from the mic, within the cardioid shape, and yet I sound quiet and probably worse than something that could come from my phone. I can raise my voice into the microphone and it's still not good enough. I've owned this mic for several months now but still cannot figure out how to get the right sound out of it.If I turn up the sensitivity too high, then my audio starts to have cracks in it. Plus there's a TON of white noise.I guess it's just a bad mic? What do you guys think?. So many variables. Is your recording area sound treated?
Do you use any compression? Is it uncleanable in audio editor? Do you have proper gain-staging? While its convenient to just say its a bad mic it could be potentially a mix of several small factors or one big issue.I havent used this microphone personally but I have used the Yeti. Truth be told, the Yeti didnt have THAT great of a sound profile.
(What the yeti has is an incredibly good marketing team).Do you have a clip of what it sounds like vs a clip of what you think it SHOULD sound like?. My recording area is not sound treated. I don't think I use compression? I haven't messed with any settings like that. It's fairly cleanable in the audio editor but if I want to raise the volume of the clip then all the noise comes back. I don't know how to set the gain-staging besides for messing with the sensitivity in Windows (if that even answers the question).I don't have a raw clip right now, but here's what it sounds like after I edit it to remove the noise and add normalization:Here's what I think I should sound like (but with slightly less striking bass):I understand the Yeti isn't that great, but it's at the point where the audio would be acceptable to me.In fact, I think I will be jumping directly to an XLR mic setup instead of using a USB mic (just not right now, so I want to use the mic I currently own). Audio quality is very important to me in my videos.
No problem man. First of all, you need a pop filter.
Lot's of air and 'p' pops going on. Normally I'd say that you're too close to that particular mic but it sounds like you do a good overall job of keeping your volume in check so you'll probably avoid clipping.
Adding a pop filter will make place you back another inch or so anyway, which is a good thing. Always better to record at a low volume and turn it up later.Sound quality wise you sound fine. I'm not sure what you're unhappy with but as a fellow Samson C01U user i'm going to guess that you'd like some of the lower range to come through more. The C01U does tend to record flat, you could try messing aroudn by boosting some low end (or whatever you're looking for)with an EQ in post. Just don't over do it.
But honestly, it sounds fine. I remember being unhappy the first time I heard a recording of my voice on this mic. It didn't sound like I wanted it to either.
Looking back, I just wasn't used to a microphone being able to record what my true to life voice sounded like. It was a bit of a surprise. You sound fine man. I think you're worried over nothing. Best of luck to you and thanks for inadvertently reminding me that I need to join vidme.
I hope you do join vidme! The site could use more good content creators. I honestly love it here dude. All it takes is one good video and then your success will skyrocket on this site. Let me know when you join!Anyway, thanks for the advice. I actually made that video thinking that I didn't need the pop filter on, for various reasons.
But once I started hearing those 'p's and b's' I regretted not using it. I actually use one in this video I just uploaded:You're right about my audio sounding fine. I think I was just upset because to me, the mic doesn't pick up my voice clearly enough. Like you said, it's very flat. But to me it seems like it doesn't do bass tones well, if at all. Furthermore, I always thought it was too quiet.
But I found a way to fix that in post. I am definitely missing that subtle bass that I like to hear from other content creators' mics.After talking it over with you guys from this subreddit, I realized the audio isn't as bad as I thought, so thank you!. I own the mic and had the sensitivity cranked up for a while.
I know that white noise that you're talking about, as it was permanently in the background of my audio. I had to do two things to fix it. First, I had to download a program called samson sound deck, located here -That has a built in Noise reduction feature for the co1u. When I downloaded it, the option wasn't showing up for me, though. I had to also switch which usb port my mic was plugged into. Once I did that, the noise reduction option was available, which fixed all my issues. Now I can turn the sensitivity up as high as I want.