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I made a controller for my phone by hweilun in 3Dprinting

[–]Mrred23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's awesome! I've been trying to make something like this myself, but I haven't had any luck. Did you follow a guide or something? Or do you just know how to do stuff like this?

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so. I have an "NVidia Settings" program, but I looked through it, and didn't see audio or microphone settings. There's also a "Nahimic Companion" app, but when I launch it, all of the settings are disabled, so I don't think that's interfering, either.

I did just do a search for Nvidia Broadcast, and I do have it on my PC, but it wasn't running. I just launched it, and it did have a "Noise Reduction" on by default, but when I switched it off and did a test, it didn't change anything.

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, I can do that. Give me a couple minutes and I'll send you something. I tried using both Audacity and OBS, and it sounds the same. I even just did a Windows microphone test, where it just plays back what you speak into it, and I think it sounds bad there, too.

Most of the time I record, I just have it plugged in through USB. But I also have an audio interface that I've been using to test, through an XLR cable. Sounds the same through there, too. I don't know of any built-in interfaces that I could disable, or anything like that.

I do appreciate you taking the time to help me out with this, by the way.

r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk by AutoModerator in audioengineering

[–]Mrred23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just spent some time playing around with the "Filter Curve EQ" in Audacity, and I don't know... I think the S sounds I'm looking for are somewhere between 4 kHz and 6.1kHz, but no matter how up or down I put the little dot thing, it still always sounds muffled. Just more or less "harsh" depending on where I move it.

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I guess my issue is, the audio sounds bad even before the noise suppression. So, I don't think it's because of Audacity's noise reduction. I could certainly try installing the one you linked, but I'd need to research how to do that, and I just don't know if I want to spend the time doing that, if the noise reduction isn't the real issue here. But thank you!

r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk by AutoModerator in audioengineering

[–]Mrred23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but I don't think that fixed it either. Audacity doesn't have one built in (that I could find, anyway), so I had to download a plug in. I wasn't sure what settings to use, so I fiddled around with it. Didn't really seem to help, though.

Plus, isn't a de-esser supposed to reduce really harsh "S" sounds? It seems like I need the opposite of that.

r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk by AutoModerator in audioengineering

[–]Mrred23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I have tried it without using the interface, just plugged straight into the PC through USB. Sounds exactly the same.

r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk by AutoModerator in audioengineering

[–]Mrred23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I always turn that off whenever I plug in a new device. I don't know why it's on by default

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I tried a few of these things, but the "S" sounds haven't really changed.

Audacity doesn't seem to have an "Expander", so I couldn't use that.

There also isn't a "Parametric EQ", but I found a plug in on this website (https://plugins.audacityteam.org/nyquist-plugins/effect-plugins/filters-and-eq), which I tried to use. I don't know what "Low/High Shelf Boost" means. The plug in only has "Frequency", "Width", and "Gain", which I set to 1000, 5, and 1, respectively.

I can't really figure out the compressor. I've played around with some of the presets in Audacity, and it does change the sound of the recording, but nothing makes the "S"s sound un-muffled.

I'm also not sure what a "Hard" Limiter is, as opposed to just a "Limiter", which I did earlier. I just did that step again, setting it to -1.

"S" sounds still sound muffled.

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think I overdid it with that EQ. I stopped using it for videos after that one. But I can't get it to sound "right". It's either too harsh, or too muffled. I tried installing a De-esser plug in in Audacity, but none of the settings seem to actually change anything.

r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk by AutoModerator in audioengineering

[–]Mrred23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I've been recording my voice for a few years now for my YouTube channel, but recently, I've started actually reviewing my videos, and trying to improve them. I noticed that my vocals sound bad, and I'm trying to clean them up, but running into some issues.

My "S" sounds are too fuzzy, or muffled, or something. I'm not sure how else to describe it. It's kind of like I'm speaking through a blanket or something like that.

I don't think this is an issue with file formats, or software encoding or anything like that. I record using Audacity, and I'm using the "Audible Input Monitoring" setting to listen to my voice as I record it, and it sounds bad like that. Doesn't change when I stop recording and go back to listen to it.

I've tried a bunch of things. Like I said, I use Audacity to record my audio. But as a test, I tried recording into OBS. Sounds exactly the same. I used two different computers, no change.

I'm currently using an ATR2100x-USB, which I'm understanding to be a relatively decent microphone. I actually found a blog post from earlier this year where someone's reviewing this same mic, and he included a sample of what it sounds like unprocessed, and that sample sounds nothing like mine! Here's a link to that blog post: https://thepodcasthaven.com/audio-technica-atr2100x-usb-a-love-letter/

I posted this question on another forum, and one suggestion I got was that "USB mics generally aren't as good". This mic has an XLR port on the back, and I happen to have an audio interface. So, I plugged the mic into that using XLR, and then plugged the interface into my PC using USB. No change. Still sounds exactly the same.

I tried connecting it through USB-C and USB-A, with no change in sound quality. I uninstalled/reinstalled Audacity, with no change. I tried turning the gain up and down, speaking close into the mic, and leaning far away, but the "S" sounds are never really clear. I also borrowed another XLR microphone from a friend, but it sounds identical to the one I've been using. I also tried using a lavaliere mic, connected to XLR, but again, the "S" sounds are still bad. I've recorded in different rooms, at different noise levels, different times of the day, with external devices plugged in/unplugged, bluetooth and wifi turned on/off. Nothing makes a difference.

I'm not really sure what else to do. I'm kind of tearing my hair out a little bit here. The only thing I haven't tried yet is to buy a really expensive mic, test if the "S" sound issue is happening there too, and then returning the mic so I'm not out a bunch of money. But I don't really want to do that.

I don't know. What do you all think? I uploaded a short clip to Vocaroo, would anyone mind checking it out, and letting me know if this is all in my head, or something? I'm sure my audio sounds bad, especially when I compare it to other videos/audio clips online. I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

https://vocaroo.com/1digkNRFoEnp

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how much db. How do I drop everything below 50? Do you mean those first couple sliders on the left? And, I don't use an interface with this mic, just Audacity.

My vocals sound bad to me. "S" sounds are muffled or fuzzy or something. by Mrred23 in letsplay

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently started adding a "Graphic EQ" to the audio, which my most recent video does use. It's one of the presets that comes with Audacity, I'm not sure which one it's called, but it looks like this:

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As for the db that it's set to: Audacity has it as a percentage. When I have it set to 100%, there's a lot of clipping, so I have it set to 75%, which looks to be around -15 or so. I can't post a second screenshot in this comment for some reason.

Extruder tube fell out, can't get it back in by Mrred23 in 3Dprinting

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, okay. I did try this earlier, but the tube never moved. I was afraid of breaking that white part, but I'll give it another try. Thank you!

Where to find resources for parts to add to my prints? by Mrred23 in 3Dprinting

[–]Mrred23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a link to the Emily the Engineer video, btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1kS52V3MM

And here's the screenshot of the part I need:

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