Reaper Equalizer Obs Studio For Better Voice Quality

Hello and welcome back Peeps, my name is  PlentyAZach and today we're going to be talking   about EQ'ing your voice specifically for streaming  now when we talk about EQ voices for streaming the   main thing that we're trying to do is complement  our voices and not change them so the plugins   that we're going to be using today are actually  from reaper plugins which i know a lot of people   have talked about and that's because they're super  great and they're free so why not use an amazing   program when you google reaper plugins the first  website you should see after you google it should   be the reaper.fm rea plugs then what you're going  to want to do is download the 64-bit version go   ahead and install that and to check that it was  installed properly go into your c drive go to   your program files and then look all the way down  to the v's and you should see a VST plug-in folder   when you click inside there you should now see the  rea plugs folder and inside there you should see a   bunch of different .dlls and a few other things if  the install went correctly this is where all those   plugins should be at once they're here obs knows  to look for this folder to find these vst plugins   and speaking of obs let's go ahead and open up  obs so now that we're inside of obs here you can   kind of see in the backdrop that i have a little  cheat sheet here and that's specifically because   this is what i use from producer hive to help me  understand where different frequencies are at on   the frequency chart and how they affect my voice  and other voices that i've worked with around my   time here so some of the main areas of interest  for us if you've never seen this chart here   are your fundamental frequencies and that's where  like the majority of your voice sits in this spot   here it's the main like to your voice and that's  usually around this 100 to 300 that we see right   here and when we talk about boosting or cutting  stuff again we want to go for subtlety with this   usually somewhere between a three and a five  decibel cut or boost is kind of where the mac   should be at the next area of interest for us is  what's called the box and it's as soon as you hear   it you're gonna be like wow it really does sound  like you're talking in a box like it's such a   it's such a great concept because it really sounds  like it and some people need to have a boost here   so don't look at this as like i you have to do  exactly what this shows some people might need   a little bit of a boost in there and a lot of this  will also be kind of dependent on what room you're   in and stuff like that and i'll show you a little  bit about how you can figure out if you need to   cut or boost in these sections here from there  we go up into what's called like the nasal slash   like the honky section and in the area some  people might need a boost because the fact that   they don't have a lot of like nasal or honk and  they can boost that section up and get more kind   of like presence and clarity from their voice  then you have what's called the sibilance zone   and sibilance is when you're doing the s or  so when you're saying like thick or sally   stuff like that that's a sibilance and that's  where some of that is at you can cut it in eq   or you can use something called the de-esser  which i'll cover in another video in a short   little while here and then you have at the very  end you have what's called like the air and this   is the area where a lot of like the high-end  like sparkle exists and i find that a nice   little boost up in this region does help quite  a bit but again you might have like a lot of ac   noise or something from like you know air ducts  and whatever else and when you boost that section   up all you can hear now is that so let's kind of  talk about how you can adjust some of these things   to get you the best voice for you so let's go  ahead and start affecting this by going down to   our microphone go to the filters inside of the  filters go ahead and hit the plus at the bottom   go down to where it shows the vst2 plugins let's  go ahead and name this eq1 hit okay then where   it says please select the plugin go ahead and hit  that drop down and look for the reaeq-standalone   so once you're here go ahead and now hit the open  plugin interface all right so now we're inside of   this and you can see that there's a squiggly  yellow line that's moving around and a bunch   of stuff in here let's let's let's break it down  real quick here for you this blue line with the   one two three four on top this is essentially what  you are boosting and cutting so if i grab number   two here and i start moving it around what i'm  doing is saying like hey if i bring it above zero   into this positive section you can see that  i have a boost of about 7.8 db centered at   327 hertz that's saying like hey take these  frequencies and make them this much louder or   if i pull it below the zero and i have a negative  you know 7.4 db cut i'm saying hey take all these   frequencies that around this area and bring them  away or attenuate them make them softer or quieter   so that's what we can do with this you can either  click and drag and move these around or we can do   it all from this section that's down below so  i'm going to reset the defaults here and let's   go to the next thing which we see this yellow  squiggly line and this is my voice these are all   the frequencies that are inside of my voice so  now for me you can see that most of my voice is   down here in this lower region you know centering  centering around somewhere between 300 and 100   is where most of my voice is at it's the loudest  section of my voice so if i hold a lower note like   you can see there that it's all the lower stuff   where if i hold like a higher note or  if i use what's called the sibilance you can see all of that s sound is somewhere up  here in this like 10 000 hertz range so this is   the main thing that we're talking about here when  we're talking about fundamental frequencies and   then like the high end range and all this type  of stuff this is the graph that we're looking at   if i want to do anything to that we come down to  the slower section here where we see enable type   frequency gain and bandwidth enable just simply  turns on or off whatever booster cut you're using   here type is what type of boost or cut you're  using a low shelf means that if i apply some   type of a gain everything below that frequency is  what's kind of being affected up to the frequency   and a little beyond a high shelf just says hey  everything after that section go ahead and boost   it up the band is just that it's how it's just  a kind of like hey i want to pull these these   ranges here centered around my target wanna pull  them up or pull them down and then this is where   you can affect the width of that if you go down  to bandwidth here you can actually make that   smaller so if you want to affect a really narrow  range you can have a much lower bandwidth here or   if you want to affect like everything you can make  it really wide the gain is literally just that do   you want to have a boost to those sections or do  you want to have a cut to those sections if you   want to center around a certain frequency you  can grab your frequency slider and move that up   and down the other notable types here would be  low pass which this only allows low frequencies   to pass through this so if you wanna you know  if you're a bass player and you only want those   low bass notes to come through you might have a  high pass that starts at 5000 hertz or something   or if you only want the high frequencies to go  through see that little bump that's happening   right down over here around this like 50 and below  range that for me is just kind of the rumble of   the area that i'm in and the rumble around this  room here so i might want to just simply cut   all that away and that's where a high pass would  come in is i can get rid of all those like low   frequency things that my voice doesn't have  anything intelligible inside there and i can   guarantee you that most people's voices don't so  for our experience here let's go ahead and look   at a band i'm gonna make it a little bit narrower  so i'm not affecting a whole bunch of stuff and   let's go ahead and take a look at affecting my  voice so like we talked about right i know my   voice sits somewhere between 100 and 200 so i'm  gonna make this 150 here and i'm going to use   a boost of about three so now let's say like oh  well let's say i want to do a huge boost to this   right i want to use like a 10 db boost and this  is with a boost on this is with the boost off so   you can hear that when i have that boost on it's  very boomy and you kind of start losing like what   i'm saying and stuff like that so this is what  i talk about a lot of the time when we're doing   boosts and cuts we want to settle in right around  somewhere between three and five decibels so this   is what's enhancing our main of the voice that  core frequency stuff let's go ahead and take a   look at the next range so now we moved everything  over and now we're talking about specifically this   box range and i just want to show a little  demonstration with this so what i'm going to   do is i'm going to click on the second band or i  can click on the second tab i'm going to make sure   it's on band and i'm gonna center this at 450  hertz which is right in the middle of the box   range i'm gonna make it a fairly lower bandwidth  and now what i'm gonna do i'm gonna put a big ol'   gain on this so now with this gain on it do you  hear how it sounds like i'm in like a weird box   type thing here's what it sounds like if i take  it away so now i'm gonna take all that away and   it should sound a little bit clear so this is with  the cut on and this is with the cut off hopefully   you can see that type of a difference there a lot  of the time in these type of regions which are   called like they could be problematic regions or  they could just be like the reverberants in your   room and whatnot this is what you can do to get  rid of those noises and here's a way that you   can actually find some of these noises too of  like oh hey do i need to cut more frequencies   away you could take a very low bandwidth  here give yourself a big old gain of like 12   and then what you want to do is while you're  talking go ahead and pan this all the way up and   listen for the sounds listen for weird residencies  and then start to slowly bring your weight back   down okay do i hear anything hello hello hello  i'm gonna check this through i'm gonna check   so i can hear i have a lot of issues at about  this 450 range yeah i just hear a lot of like   weird like kind of phasing noises and i don't  recommend going through and you know surgically   finding all these things and pulling them out  but it gives you an idea of like do i need to do   some more tweaking to this so for us i am gonna  make a cut right around this area and i'm gonna   do like a minus four and a half cut to this area  and i'm gonna make it just a little bit wider so   let's take a quick listen to with both of these  on so far so this is with both of those eqs on   and if i go ahead and turn off that particular  filter this is what it should sound like with   everything off so right now all that we're doing  is just we're just very slightly tweaking our   voice just a little bit to give us the best that  we can out of this so now in this next range here   this is the mid-range bite or we start getting  into like i talked about earlier the nasal and   honkiness so if you have a really nasally voice  you might actually need to take a little bit of   a cut here or if you feel like hey i feel like i  could use a little bit more presence in my voice   this is also where you can kind of boost a little  bit of that so what we'll do is we'll go ahead and   go to the third tab once again we're on a band  and i'm gonna actually center this around for   now let's start at like 1500 or so and i'm gonna  go ahead and give myself about a three db boost   i'm gonna make this a little bit smaller i'm gonna  put this down to like a one on the bandwidth here   so this is with that particular you know mid-range  boost on and here's what that mid-range boost   off let's take a look at what a cut might sound  like and here's that same section with a cut now   now for my voice i can tell that i need to have a  little bit of a cut here from from what i can hear   my headphones and the reason i say that is when i  look at the graph one i don't have a whole lot of   frequencies in this range that are usually within  my main vocal section but also if i boost this all   the way up to like you know like a plus 10 or  plus 12 i start sounding like i'm on the radio   and that's an area that i don't really want to  be boosting up to me because the fact it starts   sounding very like old timey radios so for me  i've always found that you know about a minus   four-ish or so cut works really well here but  again your voice might be different with this   and you might have a whole lot of information  in that section that you do want to boost up so   now let's go ahead and take a look at these last  two sections and for us that'll be the sibilance   area and then kind of the final end of just where  all the air and sparkle kind of exists in an eq   so i'm gonna go ahead and go to the fourth  one and now right now it's set as a high   shelf so if i put a gain here it'll  just boost everything that's past this   and that's not really what we're looking for  so let's go ahead and change that to a band   let's make it a little bit narrower and let's go  ahead and start adding in some type of a cut now   we need to find where our sibilance zone is at so  what i can do is if i just hold an s sound so like   you can see that a lot of my my s centers on the  frequency around probably about nine thousand   hertz maybe eight and a half thousand kilohertz  somewhere in there so what i can do with that   is grab the frequency slider and i can slide that  all the way up so i just did it just a little bit   down to 8 900 hertz because i found that that was  about where the center actually kind of came in at   now you're not going to hear this one really come  in very often because i well one i know kind of   how to control a little bit of my my sizzle but  also too most of the words that i say don't have   a whole lot of harsh sibilance to it so if you  feel like you need more of a cut here feel free   to do so otherwise there are also other tools that  are out there that we'll cover later on here in   a little while that's called a de-esser that can  really help take off that s sound and then we can   take a look at the final region which is the air  region now i'm also out of bands but we can add   one you can hit add band and now you have a fifth  band that you can use for whatever you would like   so i'm gonna go ahead and pull this on over to  around let's start it right about 10 000 hertz   i'm gonna change the type most importantly to a  high shelf and from here i'll go ahead and boost   some of this up i'll give it like a nice little  three boost and then here we have pretty much an   eq that works fairly well for my voice but again  yours might look a little bit different so here we   actually have the main eq that i use for my voice  all the time that i use for all of my recording   streaming and everything else on the bottom here  you can see that i have a boost right around   the same section i have a cut at the same section  this three here is just set there to keep it from   pulling down all this mid-range stuff that's right  there but i have another cut that's around that   you know 2000 or so that really pulls out my honk  and then from there i literally boost all the rest   of it so i have a lot more air in those like that  sparkle that's happening so that's why i said you   can have all sorts of different type of eqs does  not just gonna be one that yes this will work   every single time for you without fail this is  what you should do every time mine looks a little   bit different than even the main one that's on  here you can see here that i do have a boost here   and i have a cut here but i have another cut here  and then i boost all the rest of the section here   because i found that works really well with my  voice and my room that's right here so those are   some of the basics of how you can do the eq for  your voice for streaming and specifically looking   at it in the context of the reaper plugins but  there's one more type of eq that we can use that's   very easy to do that can really help out a lot  what you'll do is you go back to your microphone   go ahead and add in one more eq so go ahead and  add one more vst 2x and we're going to name this   one EQ_2 go ahead and find that aria eq again open  up the new plugin interface and then inside here   we're going to do what's called a roll off so i'm  going to disable the first and the second one here   i'm going to change the first band to a high pass  and i'm going to change the fourth band to a low   pass then i'm going to grab the bandwidth on each  of these and make sure that it's a fairly flat all   the way to the edge there just kind of making sure  that it's a nice flat curve that's here and what   i'm doing is i'm going to take all these low end  frequencies that are below probably about 70 hertz   and i'm just going to take them away i just want  to get rid of them because again you can see   here that i have that rumbling in my room that's  over here that i don't want that's nothing that i   want in here because it's the rumbling from my  lights the floor the you know washer and dryer   that are out there if a motorcycle passes  by in the distance and you just hear that   that's all down in this range here there's most  most of us don't have low enough frequencies in   our voice that are going to start touching the  70 hertz range i find that 70 works really well   to take away from like all of that low end clutter  that doesn't really help us here and then on the   high end i want to boost this all the way i want  to take this all the way up to about all the way   up to about 17 000 hertz because anything past  about 17 000 hertz isn't going to be very helpful   and i'm still going to adjust this cue just a  little bit with this bandwidth sorry i call it   q because i'm used to it in a different software  i'll grab this bandwidth and make it so that's a   little bit flatter so that way right around this  15 000 or so hertz we're gonna start dropping   away and then we really drop hard when we get to  closer to that 20 000 hertz so this here is again   getting rid of all the low end information that's  just rumbling in the distance and getting rid of   all that really high end harsh sizzle sounding  that's from like your air conditioning turning   on or having a fan in the room and it just has  that really high pitched like squeal nose maybe   you have a gpu that has a coil whine to it that  could all be up in that really high end range   that's just like a really high-pitched ringing and  that's not really useful for a voice so let's just   get rid of it so those are kind of the main basics  for EQ'ing your voice with it and feel free to   experiment with this like i said what i've shown  here is just kind of a good kind of starting point   to it and i found that with some of the people  that i've worked with using something very similar   to this has helped them just improve their mic  quality for free but there's no right or wrong   answer with this it's really just kind of have  fun with it and see what sounds the best for you   and the audience that you're with so if you have  any questions please let me know down below i'm   happy to answer them and i like to learn and talk  about this type of content so if you have some   constructive feedback for me please let me know as  well next time we'll talk about like compressors   gain limiters and we'll start slowly building  everything that you can to really get the most out   of your microphone so till then i will see you all  in the next one take care everybody love ya bye   you

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Length: 16min 36sec (996 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 16 2021