I'm stuck in meetings a good chunk of my day so I try to avoid having to wear headphones (just gets tiresome), and the noise gating and some strategic microphone positioning works perfect for keeping the meeting audio from my speakers from feeding back in. This cuts most of my dog's sounds (even if she's playing and creating a ruckus), ambient noise from people upstairs, my keyboard, etc. I've got a relatively quiet workspace, but I still live with three people and two dogs so the ambient noise is there. Now in your voice chat program, just change the microphone input to the virtual audio device. You should now be getting your de-noised/gated/etc microphone coming in to the virtual audio device. In the row for your microphone input, change 'Audio Monitoring' to 'Monitor and Output'.ĥ. In the Audio Mixer panel at the bottom middle of your window, select any of the gear icons and hit 'Advanced Audio Properties'. Now go to File -> Settings, Audio, and under 'Advanced' select the virtual audio cable as your monitoring device. Basically 'if the audio is too quiet, mute the input completely.)ģ. (For future playing, you may want to come back here and add a 'Noise Gate' as well. Right click on it, select Filters, and add a 'Noise Suppression'. In OBS, add your microphone as an 'Audio Input Capture'. Both have a free version that let you set up a single device.Ģ.

So grab Virtual Audio Cable or VB-Audio Cable. The OBS stuff would be the same, you'll just need to figure out your own solution for virtual audio devices.)ġ. (Easy in the 'for people on HN' sense, not easy in the 'my mom would do this' sense.) Only caveat is that you need to leave OBS running in the background doing its thing whenever you need your microphone. For anyone going down this path, it's relatively easy to kinda use OBS as your audio pipeline for other programs.

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