Question / Help Best layer to put GAIN on the mic

[GamingDjent]

Hello guys,

I am having trouble with the volume of my mic being too low.

I have Voicemeeter and OBS working great and I also installed some reafr VST plugins to get rid of the noise and also added some other filters.

However! I need to boost my mic about +9db. And I have that possibility in so many different filters or parts, that i am lost.


Here are some of the places I can put an audio gain:

* Voicemeeter Gain.
* Regular Gain filter in OBS.
* Regular Compressor.
* Reafr standalone
* Voxengo EQ
* etc.

All of them give different results.
I figured that Voicemeeter was the one, since its "closer to the source", but to be honest, it distorts everything so much that its unbearable. I either get high pitch noises or a digital sound.

The way im adding the filters is this:

1.- Noise Removal (reafr)
2.- Equalizer
3.- Compressor


So my question is:
Where to put the gain? Would it be better to have it on different instances? All the gain in just one?
And then.. In which step should I do this?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Deleted member 121471]

Not familiar with the correct wording for this but I usually add gain as the last filter of the entire stack, to avoid distortion, on OBS. Take my word with a grain of salt though.