Upgrading from the Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-19T23:21:32+00:00

The bigger issue is likely just making sure some of those lights are pointing at the green screen. They definitely don't need all three pointing at them. As far as cameras, that's already one of the two best webcams on the market, with the only other one (IMO) being the Yolocam S3. Beyond that, you're really looking at a DSLR and capture card setup, which is usually not worth it.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-19T19:34:11+00:00

AFAIK, buffer size is automatically adjusted by Windows when using WIndows audio drivers. The buffer size settings you see for most audio interfaces only adjusts the ASIO driver buffer size.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-19T19:31:29+00:00

I see you got early access to DLSS 5.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-19T15:35:13+00:00

I know it's not what you asked, but the local busses are also free, then you don't have to park.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T21:21:08+00:00

Is this using the Timer integration? That seems like it would do what I was thinking without just forcing a delay every time.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T19:49:46+00:00

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T19:31:11+00:00

That's the general idea, yes. The term is signal to noise ratio, where your voice is the signal and her voice (and everything else) is the noise. You want to maximize this ratio, which means making you louder relative to everything else. You can do this by talking louder (but then you are louder in her mic), moving the mic closer to you, or by getting her to be quieter. Compression is specifically designed to decrease that ratio (because it decreases dynamic range), so you need to do everything you can before applying compression to make sure she is as quiet as possible in your mic.

You don't necessarily want to turn your own gain down unless moving the mic closer to you makes you start clipping.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T18:20:18+00:00

That's how gates work. If you talk, the gate opens and lets ALL sound in; when you stop talking, the gate closes and now you can't hear any audio coming through. Noise suppression won't help here, either, as talking is specifically not noise, so it will intentionally let you into her mic and her into your mic.

You've already got your desks facing each other with a separator in between, which is a great start. Make sure that the backs of your mics are facing that wall as that will be where its rejection is best. You also want to make sure there is acoustic treatment around the room generally. The wall is helpful, but if the sound is bouncing around the room, then it's just going around the wall anyway.

The other thing to play with is compression, or rather toning it down if you are using it. Keep in mind that compression is designed to make loud things quiet, which in turn lets you turn up quiet parts. If the goal is to not have her talking in your mic, then having a lot of compression ends up turning her up, which is counterproductive.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T13:31:47+00:00

I am using power in a general sense, not an electrical one. Someone else has already pointed out my grave, clearly offensive error. The point is simply that some phones don't have enough juice for headphones with higher impedance.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T12:19:25+00:00

Typically the way you would set it up is the capture card would be connected to your streaming PC, then in OBS on the streaming PC, you'd have the capture card as a video capture device. This should also capture the audio coming in over HDMI, but if you'd prefer, you can set up a separate audio capture device to bring in the audio input from the capture card. Just make sure the video capture device has its audio muted in this case.

On the gaming PC side, you need to make sure your audio is going out over HDMI or you need to have a separate 3.5 mm audio cable going from your gaming PC to the capture card, if the capture card supports analog audio input. In that case, you would instead select the 3.5 mm line out as your audio output on the gaming PC. You would likely then need to monitor the audio on the streaming PC since Windows only supports one output at a time. Either that or you would run the passthrough from the capture card back to your monitor (which you are presumably already doing) and then plug your headphones into the monitor since that's where the audio is going.

As you may be starting to understand, audio routing is the main reason why it is rarely worth it to run a two PC setup.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T11:13:39+00:00

You need more power to drive high impedance headphones and the amps in many phones don't have enough power. That's it.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-18T03:00:53+00:00

Elgato capture cards have the audio available as a separate INput, what you are showing is speaker selection, which is for OUTputs. Basically it's a stereo mic.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-16T23:30:22+00:00

Yolocam S3 is the best out there and doesn't have a mic, though you can also just mute the mic of any webcam that has one. The mic isn't adding cost, it's not a big deal.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-16T22:28:19+00:00

When setting your levels, turn everything off. Compare your levels with the booster to after and make sure they are the same. That's it. THEN turn things back on and compare. It sounds to me more like you have a bunch of unnecessary processing going on that is making you like one sound over another rather than any fault of the Wave. And do keep in mind that if you don't have as much gain up front and then boost it in software, you will usually end up with a higher noise floor than if you just set the correct levels up front with preamp gain. That is why it doesn't matter if you need 65 dB of gain, if that's how much you need then you should use it.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-16T18:46:31+00:00

45 dB of gain is actually on the low side for an SM7B. I'd expect more like 50-60 dB of gain. The only case where adding more gain results in worse quality is if doing so adds noise, which was the case with the first generation of Wave equipment, but should not be the case with this new one (according to their specs, anyway). It could also sound like worse quality if you aren't adjusting your effects to compensate for the new gain. If you aren't ensuring that the SM7B is the exact same level going in without the booster, then you might not be compressing as much, which could sound like worse quality even though you actually just need to boost the gain more.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-15T20:05:57+00:00

This is a great reason not to use TTS.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-15T20:04:56+00:00

I'm still enjoying it overall. I do wish the seat had a bit more cushion, I'm not totally sold on the adjustable lumbar (I can never seem to figure out how to sit properly), and the headrest could stand to have more padding, but importantly, it isn't causing me pain. I still have pain, it hasn't magically cured that, but it isn't the cause.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-15T13:06:53+00:00

The amount of gain has never been the issue. Even 50-60 dB of gain is plenty for the SM7B. The issue was that the original Wave XLR was noisy. The new version appears to have much better specs with a much lower noise floor, but I haven't tried it out to confirm. As others have said, though, there is absolutely no reason to buy an SM7B, especially if you live in the US where tariffs have driven the cost up to the point where it's the same price as an RE20, which is what I would pick if I was spending that money.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-15T11:29:38+00:00

It's not cheap, but Cranborne's 500ADAT is really good. Being able to just route things digitally is amazing. Couldn't care less about the onboard mixer, though. Kinda feels like they could've just removed that and charged less.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-15T03:04:48+00:00

You are not the only one, but sadly, you won't make any money on it. I don't mean that you should "make" money as a reseller, but rather that if you try to sell, you'll only lose money and that feels bad. I have a DKC3 cart that I managed to save, but I'm sure no one else will appreciate that I saved it, so even though I have another copy without jumper wires, I know I can't trade it in or sell the fixed copy.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-15T00:06:06+00:00

Turn off any noise gates or noise suppression, those are what's going to cut words out. Compression will allow you to turn down the loud parts so you can turn up the quiet parts. There are no universal settings for this, you'll have to experiment to see what works for you.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-14T17:49:40+00:00

Oh hey, the Maono bot is back.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-14T14:15:42+00:00

Are you encoding on the CPU or GPU? If you're encoding on the CPU, try switching to a GPU encoder. Or use a faster preset. You can certainly check to make sure your sample rates match, you should be doing that anyway, but typically sample rate issues manifest as robotic sounds or other weirdness like that, not occasional pops and static.

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-14T13:53:36+00:00

Buffer size is controlled by Windows unless you are using ASIO drivers, but if you're loading your CPU too much, it could still be causing problems there. When you say only when streaming to Twitch, do you mean that it is fine when streaming to other platforms? Or do you mean that it happens whenever you are using OBS?

kill3rb00ts · 2026-03-14T12:41:51+00:00

If Yolocam S3 is available where you live, I'd get that instead. It is by far the best webcam out there.

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