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Noise cancelling headsets only help isolate yourself from the outside world and won't help to cancel noise for your audience. Good microphones are built to pick
by xmprt 3y ago
Noise cancelling headsets only help isolate yourself from the outside world and won't help to cancel noise for your audience. Good microphones are built to pick up every tiny sound around them including all the background noise - that's what they're meant for. And buying a crappy "noise cancelling" microphone is just going to ruin the good quality sound that you're looking for from a standalone mic - you might as well just add a noise gate (which also sounds a bit jarring and isn't ideal). One option is to instead buy a shotgun mic but that's also not an ideal option for a live stream where your head is probably not going to be in one location for long periods of time.
Basically, no amount of hardware or software can fix a bad sound environment.
- thsksbd 3y agoHence the boom microphone. Preferably with acoustic cancelling. The boom places the microphone close to your mouth so it's gain is very low. Having two mics on the boom setup to constructively add only the speaker's voice does extra cancelling. This is how call centers work EDIT: by boom mic I mean headsets with a boom attached. High end ones are specifically designed to eliminate ambient noise.
- mkl 3y agoNoise-cancelling boom mics are great in my experience. Even loud external noise just disappears. I did experiments with office noise, planes, trucks, weedeaters, doors slamming, etc., and only the door slams got picked up.
- thsksbd 3y agoBest part is they work without needing a CPU intensive algorithm guessing what part of the signal is noise and introducing lag.
- pamelafox 3y agoDo you have any specific recs? Happy to research mic upgrades.
- thsksbd 3y agoNo. I'm just interested in the physics/electronics due to my academic background. I have, maybe, two meetings a week in a basement all to myself