Best GOXLR Mic Settings | EQ, Compression, Noise Gate & De-Esser

hello everyone my name is ishaan jolly and i'm a voice actor and twitch streamer and today i am going over the best eq compression de-essing gate all those settings that i use on my go xlr for when i am streaming so i will take you from this sound quality to this sound quality far more present far more boosted a bit more warm a bit more silky on the high end and just a nice touch to make sure that your live streams are perfect now the audio is backed to default let's get started right okay first off go into mic setup start speaking for some reason whenever going to mic setup this thing turns down i don't exactly know why but there that is make sure that whenever you're speaking make sure that it's in the good level and when you get loud okay i said i came close but it's fine if you're clipping as long as it's only when you shout like say you lose in a game and you start raging that's fine you can clip but the quiet moments on your stream and the really loud moments the moments you really get hyped up so the loudest moments you get consistently and the quietest moments that you get consistently should be in between about here-ish and here-ish and with the most majority the regular speaking tone should be in the good that's nice and simple there we go love it okay right first off we can go ahead with the gate i personally um i'm kind of iffy on gates i absolutely hate the sound of a very strong noise gate when you can tell um say i've got a very very quiet studio right so i will just load up something on my phone that makes noise okay let's see just go on youtube and type in white noise okay here i've got some tv static running on my phone so let's turn that up to full volume let's turn that up to a volume to say that maybe you've just got this is the background noise you've got this is your computer fan something like that so say if i turn this up say the attenuation is at 100 let's see if i turn this up to say okay minus 36 decibels so now you can no longer hear the static in the background but you can most certainly hear it when i'm speaking and it's so frustrating for me to hear that um it's completely silent and then as soon as someone starts talking there's all this background noise for me it's kind of it's kind of easier to listen to like um if this is the noise situation you have get something like a maybe get a dynamic microphone or fix whatever is causing the noise instead using a noise gate maybe something like arctic's voice could work but uh any sort of noise removal will also remove frequencies from your voice and we're here to get the best quality possible so okay what i do let me just turn that off that's annoying what i do is i set the attenuation to 50 and set the threshold to minus 55 decibels this is very very minimal so it kind of only shuts down and just basically makes the mic super quiet when i'm not speaking but if there's anything in the background or anything it doesn't have that harsh sort of like cut-off thing that you were getting just now that like i absolutely hate the sound of okay that's simple that's a noise gate great now let's um skip equalization let's do compression first because it's way easier to hear equalization after compression because compression it makes the loudest parts quieter and then boosts up the entire signal so it's more consistent for me if i could only have one effect here it would be the compressor because compression is amazing so especially for live streams for when i record voice lighting i don't use too much compression because it's fine you can manage all the levels in post but when you're live streaming you go from being a whispery to going very loud very quickly and that happens a lot at least for me because i'm very sort of hyped up and energetic on my streams so what i like to do is first just go with 50 i feel like this is a nice starting point and for me i've already configured these things the ratio the attack and release was already configured so what my settings are are minus 18 on the threshold four to one on the ratio five milliseconds on the attack a hundred milliseconds of release and then the makeup gain is set to 8 decibels i actually like to boost it to about 10 decibels because i mix my streams louder because my audio is right now it's hitting around minus nine decibels which is pretty loud and then when i shout it gets very close it's like minus one decibels it's very close to clipping but it doesn't clip because it's compressed so that's really nice in my opinion but yeah my my stream is mixed very loud you don't necessarily need this but make sure your game audio and everything is then turned down accordingly there we go right and now eq i love eq eq is so fun i just go with a very simple curved style eq i guess it i i feel like it's called the california smile but i don't know where i've heard this so i might just be making that up what i like to do is boost by six uh i don't know if this is decibels it's just a six i like to boost my six at 63 hertz because that's where the warmth in my voice lies uh and i really like that and then i just make a nice gradual curve down down to 4 at 125 hertz this should be sounding very bassy that's fine we will be correcting that with the high end and then just a 2 at 250 hertz now my voice has been thickened it's got that bass it's got that power and now we're just going to add in some clarity to deal and counteract and balance up that bass so just do the same thing on the other side in my opinion this is so satisfying to look at it's just a just a smooth symmetrical curve right in the middle here at 31.5 hertz if you don't have a low voice like me do this it'll cut out a lot of rumble and background noise but say if you do have a low voice like i do then that cuts out a bit of the warmth so i'll leave it at zero if you boost it up high it will boost like the rumbles like um that sort of noise and um this sort of noise and like say with a boiler or this car is going outside that's a really really low base gets boosted but it doesn't affect the human voice too much unless if you i guess maybe if you speak really low like this yeah now i can hear a big difference when i reach the very very lower you can just see how low my adam apple is right now you can see yeah that that boosts it by quite a bit but that's not too key i feel like 63 hertz is great for a low voice in boosting that warmth and this is great and then for a de-esser i personally with this microphone i don't like using a de-esser this the neumann tlm-103 i think sounds fine without one even with a super high um treble boost eve maybe just it's on my voice maybe it won't be sustainable for your voice but yeah what you can do is just make an annoying s sound sorry for making this noise it might annoy you so then turn that down until it sounds not annoying in your headphones anymore and then just talk some for me this is too much this makes me feel like i've got a lisp or something it probably doesn't sound that extreme in the recording but in my headphones it's really annoying me like it's really like i wouldn't say it's speech jamming me but like whenever i say an s word it makes me want to like say the s is stronger because the s's are being suppressed and it gives me like a feeling of having a lisp so me i would maybe use a five on the de-esser five percent or whatever but yeah i think this is good these are a solid eq settings if you want to have some place to start just copy these settings exactly and then tweak them just just just mess around make sure you can hear yourself i know some people don't like listening to themselves i personally love it i'm possibly a bit narcissistic in that way that i like watching back my videos i like listening to myself etc whatever but yeah i love i i can't live without it if i um say i mute my headphone see my headphones are muted you can still hear me my headphones music i hate this like it feels so much nicer to be able to hear my own voice back through the microphone with all the with all these effects especially it just i don't know it's way nicer and it just makes so makes it so that you can know exactly how you're saying it and exactly how it's sounding through the microphone and all through all these effects so yeah just go through make sure put these up put these down see what are the good frequencies what are the bad frequencies see if i boost this up it'll makes the mids very strong and if i cut this out it makes it makes it very very unclear this is a cool sound but it's very very unclear and then you can do it here this is a very sort of mid sound and this etc right just to go through see what the nice frequencies but i think this is simple this is a nice simple eq curve curve that is great for live streaming for voice acting sometimes if i'm not in the mood for doing tons of editing i keep this exact same preset and then just go through in adobe audition and then just um let me see if i can show you this is um the recording for this for the video but i will go through um add an effect i can't do that while recording but i got effects um filtering eq parametric equalizer set a low pass filter at 100 hertz and then set that to six decibels per octave but yeah that's we're not doing voice acting here we're doing live streaming and broadcast stuff so these are great eq compression de-essing noise gate settings you can start out with this may be different for you because i have a very very high quality microphone i have the neumann tlm-103 and this microphone sounds brilliant let me just try this out with a cheap microphone this microphone here the mxl genesis fat i don't even know if it's sold anymore i'm pretty sure it's discontinued but i got this for a hundred pounds used so in my world that's cheap because i just bought this for 767 pounds but let's go there we go okay this is the same eq compression settings on a cheaper microphone i feel like this sounds it's a bit harsher especially on the s's for this microphone in particular i may turn down the 16 kilohertz and then apply a stronger de-esser to counteract for that but see like this a hundred pound mic sounds basically i wouldn't say it sounds the same this is far less um farlish uh warm it's far more sibilant but hey with eq compression de-essing you can really make up the difference i'm a voice actor that's why i have this really expensive microphone something like this um this is discontinued i don't even know if they said it anymore i haven't really checked i got used on cash converters that um website for like 100 pounds so i just bought it because it looked pretty cool like it's red and gold that's cool right but honestly something like warp an 80 20 20 an audio 10k 80 20 20 uh rode pod mic these sorts of mics are quite affordable but should provide a good enough signal that you can just mess around with the eq compression and de-essing to your heart's content and make it sound the way that you like okay back to the expensive microphone now okay now we're back on the expensive microphone but guys thank you so much for watching this video i hope you really enjoyed and this helped you out when setting up your go xlr guys if you have any questions feel free to drop into my twitch live stream i stream around 8pm almost every day over at twitch.tv forward slash jolly legend and that's uk time 8 pm uk time thank you so much for watching see you all later and good bye

Channel: JollyLegend

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Keywords: twitch voice, eq, compression, goxlr, goxlr settings, go xlr, tc helicon, tc helicon goxlr, voice settings for twitch, neumann, tlm 103, noise gate

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Length: 13min 20sec (800 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 10 2021