I can't hear nothing in my mic if i slam my desk

[DimasCindy]

so yall prolly find it weird but i rage quit in my streams on yt and then i slam my desk but for some reason after the stream and i watch it i dont hear me slamming my desk so can someone help me find the setting so people watching my videos or streams can really hear my desk slams?

 

[StefenTower]

This is likely caused by your mic not picking it up, or you have an audio filter that either is ignoring what it thinks is a background sound or chopping off a sound at the frequency/pitch of the slam.

 

[AaronD]

This is likely caused by your mic not picking it up...

Seems doubtful to me. Loud sounds are really hard to keep out of a raw mic, even if you do choose an appropriate pickup pattern and point the null(s) in the right direction(s).

Source: Front-of-House Engineering with live music...

...or you have an audio filter that either is ignoring what it thinks is a background sound or chopping off a sound at the frequency/pitch of the slam.

That's more likely. If you have a Noise Suppressor on your mic, that's great for your voice, but anything else at all is considered noise to be removed. Music, sound effects, HVAC, traffic, etc. All of that goes away - or at least tries to, with varying success - when you use a Noise Suppressor.

Best to not have it, and actually be that quiet in the room. It might take some work to get there, like finding the actual source of some noise that the suppressor used to take care of, and stopping it physically while you're on, but the end result is more predictable.

 

[DimasCindy]

so how to i get to hear the slams

 

[StefenTower]

Seems doubtful to me. Loud sounds are really hard to keep out of a raw mic, even if you do choose an appropriate pickup pattern and point the null(s) in the right direction(s).

Some microphones are directional. And if we're talking about a conventional streaming program and not live music...

 

[StefenTower]

so how to i get to hear the slams

First, as a test, turn off any filters (in OBS or not) that suppress noise. An example of a filter not in OBS would be NVIDIA Broadcast. If you can hear your slam after removing the filter(s), at least you know the culprit.

 

[AaronD]

Some microphones are directional. And if we're talking about a conventional streaming program and not live music...

That's what I was talking about with choosing a pattern and aiming the null(s). It's not magic. The null isn't perfect, and sound bounces around to come in from other directions too. Thus, really hard to keep loud stuff out of a raw mic, even if you do everything right to try and avoid it.

It's pure physics, and has nothing to do with a particular application. Live music just tends to have a lot of that sort of problem, where it actually *is* a problem and almost never wanted. So I'm sure the mic itself is getting the slams, and there's some sort of processing somewhere that's killing them.

 

[AaronD]

@DimasCindy You never said what kind of mic you have. Some are easy to record dead raw, before any Windoze schmarts at all; others are not. If you can, what ends up in there might be a clue.

 

[StefenTower]

Thus, really hard to keep loud stuff out of a raw mic, even if you do everything right to try and avoid it.

Your point is well taken, but if you have a directional mic pointed away from the slam, noise reduction (another potential aspect of this) could suppress any echo from that slam. At any rate, we're not here to debate, but to assist with a problem.

 

[prgmitchell]

so how to i get to hear the slams

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