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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 13:49:31 JST iced depresso
   when someone has a youtube channel and their speech is at like -40db :neocat_gun: turn the gain up you nugget
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:56:01 JST iced depresso

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     @gentooP on linux i use one of the software EBU128 meters to check the microphones :neocat_woozy:
     
     though in editing i think audacity and others you can just do select-all and then tell it normalize to -18 LUFS.
     
     sometimes i run a plugin that forcibly volume corrects all sound to that, but its annoying. if the person stops speaking for too long it will also pull up the volume to play the background noise or whatever.
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     ｐｅｎｇｕｉｎＤＪ (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:56:02 JST ｐｅｎｇｕｉｎＤＪ

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     @icedquinn It's as high as it's going to go. I need a preamp or something.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:57:25 JST iced depresso

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     @gentooP if you're using a dynamic mic then yeah it will probably take max gain (i read m-audio and some have particularly weak amplifiers) and you have to shove it right up in your face. this is something of a feature of those micrphones more than a bug. if you put a fethead/cloudlifter/otherwise inline amplifier, it starts to turn slowly back in to a condenser mic (and the inline amps require phantom gain like a condenser anyway)
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     ｐｅｎｇｕｉｎＤＪ (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 17:47:31 JST ｐｅｎｇｕｉｎＤＪ

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     @icedquinn I have a tascam TM-80 and a TM-82.
     I use the condenser mic when sitting up on keyboard and dynamic when sitting on the loveseat drawing, doodling pitch curves and parameters in Piapro. They both go straight into the USB 96 and I try setting it to mono and the dynamic almost always off to prevent feedback.
     It seems you have to raise your voice and be directly in front of the microphone to pick up at acceptable level. I can hear myself on the audio box just fine though.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 17:47:31 JST iced depresso

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     @gentooP dynamics have to be right up against the face, yes.
     
     in the case of youtube if there is enough signal you can take the rest up to the right level.
     
     its doubly annoying when they have some intro video that blasts you and then the rest of the video they're just :ablobcatpoprev: mew mew whispering
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 18:13:55 JST iced depresso

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     @gentooP
     > picked up by obs but not voice chat
     sounds kinda like they are configured to separate inputs...
     
     and yeah. dynamics are for when you specifically don't want to record the neighbor's farts. condensers are when you want everything in the room clearly.
     
     fetheads kinda turn dynamics in to condensers in a way. i'm not sure if it was worthwhile for the mic i have, though it does let me push the mic further from my face (but then inherits the downsides of having used the condenser again, to a degree)
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     ｐｅｎｇｕｉｎＤＪ (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 18:13:56 JST ｐｅｎｇｕｉｎＤＪ

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     @icedquinn I guess it's for post production and recording vocals. But I like to VC with them somehow and stream and one of my recent stream I realize it's hardly picking up even though it looks normal on obs and turning to input on the audio interface. Had to have a random tell me because I simply didn't see any of that on my end, even listening to the recording captured in obs seems fine...

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 18:14:47 JST iced depresso

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     @gentooP sometimes its an in-app or windows thing too. changing the gain on the interface until the LEDs turn green when speaking, but then adjusting the volume in windows/linux until the complaints stop