Summary of "Make Any Mic Sound Expensive In OBS | Filters Tutorial 2025"

This video is a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to make any microphone sound professional and expensive using OBS Studio’s audio filters and settings. The creator emphasizes that following every step carefully is crucial for the best results.

Key Technological Concepts & Product Features

Microphone Positioning & Usage
- Proper mic orientation is essential; check manufacturer visuals (e.g., Amazon product images) to understand how your mic picks up sound.
- Example used: Fifine AM8 USB/XLR microphone with RGB ring, gain knob, monitoring jack, and mute button.
- Using a mic arm included in some kits is cost-effective.
Gain & Input Volume Calibration
- Adjust gain via mic knob if available; otherwise, use Windows sound input volume.
- Aim for voice levels to peak in the middle of the yellow range on OBS audio mixer, avoiding red clipping.
- Use OBS gain filter only as a last resort to boost volume artificially.
Monitoring Setup
- Avoid using microphone’s direct monitoring jack during setup because it bypasses OBS filters.
- Enable audio monitoring in OBS (Advanced Audio Properties) and set the correct monitoring device in OBS audio settings to hear filtered sound live.
Noise Suppression Filter
- Add noise suppression as the first filter to clean background noise before other effects.
- Options include:
  - Speex (lightweight, for low-end PCs)
  - RNNoise (AI-based, CPU-friendly)
  - NVIDIA Noise Removal (best quality, requires Nvidia GPU and Nvidia plugin)
- Avoid overdoing noise suppression to prevent muffled voice.
Three-Band Equalizer Filter
- Adjust lows, mids, and highs to tailor voice tone.
- Example settings: reduce mids slightly for a broadcast sound, adjust lows to control warmth or thinness.
- The EQ subtly enhances voice without drastically changing it.
Expander & Compressor Filters (Crucial for Professional Sound)
- Expander: Sets a threshold to eliminate background noise (e.g., keyboard clicks) when not talking, while allowing quiet speech to be heard.
  - Calibrate threshold by typing and speaking quietly; adjust output gain to bring quiet sounds into the audible range.
- Compressor: Controls loud sounds by reducing peaks, keeping voice volume consistent between quiet and loud speech.
  - Set ratio, attack, release, and threshold to balance loudness without clipping.
- Together, these filters maintain a steady, leveled vocal volume and reduce unwanted noise.
Limiter Filter
- Acts as a fail-safe to cut off extremely loud peaks beyond a set threshold, preventing audio distortion.
Using OBS Filters Audio Outside OBS
- Use VB Audio Cable (Virtual Audio Cable) to route filtered audio from OBS to other programs (Discord, games).
- Set OBS monitoring device to the virtual cable to output filtered sound.
- In other apps, select the virtual cable as the input device.
- Troubleshoot robotic or delayed audio by matching sample rates and channel settings (mono vs stereo) between OBS and the virtual cable device.

Additional Notes

The tutorial uses the Fifine AM8 microphone, sponsored by Fifine, but the process applies to any microphone.
The creator encourages subscribing for more tutorials.
Mentions related products like mouse pads with clean designs (tvnshop.com).

Main Speakers / Sources

The tutorial is presented by a single creator who also uses the Fifine AM8 microphone sponsored by Fifine.
References to Nvidia (for noise suppression plugin) and VB Audio Cable developers (for virtual audio routing).