Question / Help Bad sound with Rode SmartLav+ and OBS Studio

[VoodooDE]

Hi guys,

I have a Youtube-Channel with Virtual Reality Let's Plays.

I record the videos with the OBS studio software, version 0.15.4, 64bit, Windows 10 x64 Enterprise.

The microphone is a Rode SmartLav+, what everybody says is one of the best for VR Let's Play recordings.

However I think I'm doing sth wrong because it doesnt sound very nice.

Please look at this video @0:33 timestamp.

You can hear that my voice seems to winch (I hope this is the correct translation for german "leiern") and to fade out so that you can't here it sometimes.

Look at the very beginning of the video (the intro), there you can hear the recordings with my other microphone, the Rode podcaster, which sounds very nice.

Why does it sound so bad with the SmartLav+? I think I have some wrong settings in OBS?!
Output Audio-bitrate is at "320", sampling-rate is at 48khz.

I connected the SmartLav+ to the microphone-in of my ASUS Maximus VIII Hero mainboard and activated the microphone-effect "noisesuppression", because when I dont do that, it sound terrible with much noise...

Can anybody help me out?

 

[Simes]

The SmartLav+ is designed to be used with smartphones, where it takes power from the headset connector. If your motherboard's mic input is standard, it won't be supplying this power. I assume that people who get good results with it are recording on their smartphones and syncing up the audio later.

 

[VoodooDE]

The SmartLav+ is designed to be used with smartphones, where it takes power from the headset connector. If your motherboard's mic input is standard, it won't be supplying this power. I assume that people who get good results with it are recording on their smartphones and syncing up the audio later.

I bought the adapter "Rode TRRS on TRS". That thing is for using this microphone on laptop/PC.
It's original rode-accessories, so why shouldn't it work?

 

[VoodooDE]

The SmartLav+ is designed to be used with smartphones, where it takes power from the headset connector. If your motherboard's mic input is standard, it won't be supplying this power. I assume that people who get good results with it are recording on their smartphones and syncing up the audio later.

Wait, I forgot to say that about 1 month ago the same microphone worked like a charme. Check out this video, its with the same SmartLav+. The voice is MUCH better.
I made a fresh installation of windows 10, so something must be wrong here in the settings...

 

[VoodooDE]

Ohhh... I think I found it out myself!
Its the microphone effect "reverberant sound suppression" (german "Nachhallunterdrückung") in the Realtek HD audio manager settings for the microphone!
The effect was deactivated and I activated it now... Voice is MUCH better now!

 

[Simes]

Glad you got it sorted out. :)

 

[Libby]

Can I ask - how did you get OBS to detect your SmartLav+ mic in the first place? Its not showing in the list to select it as a mic option [settings>audio>mic/auxillary device]. Please help!!!!!