Question / Help I want to use speakers when streaming...

[blender]

but if I do, the mic pics up the speakers and makes an echo. Is it possible to get rid of it? I feel like I've seen streamers that don't wear headphones when streaming.

 

[kneehighhobo]

in short, no. you would have to have the speakers so quite that it wouldn't be worth having them on

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

oh I tried, worst idea ever. Even if you had decent AEC in your mic/soundcard - the one in realtek is total trash - you wouldnt be able to make it work. save yourself time and nerves and forget it

 

[dreadheaded]

So this is totally doable, I use speakers most of the time when I stream, but I use a dynamic mic which helps quite a lot, I use very aggressive gating and my speakers are a decent distance from me

 

[Simes]

It is possible with highly directional microphones, or a close mic which is not too sensitive (like a lavalier mic). Very sensitive mics, and/or mics with a wide pickup pattern, will not work. Echo correction will not work well and will probably also muddy up your mic audio.

 

[Adrian Schofield]

I do this no problem, it may not be audiophile quality but when you are streaming it doesn't matter so much because of the limited bitrate, I'd not do this if I was recording by the way. I have a dynamic mic with the gain at about mid way and the speakers behind the mic so they are not in the main path where the mic picks up audio. I have a noise gate as well and it works OK as far as I can tell. You do have to have the speakers at a low volume which is fine for the kind of game I play but probably wouldn't be loud enough if you are playing online FPS and need to hear footsteps etc. You can check out the quality on my most recent streams and see if it's OK.

Of course as with all these things it's about balance (excuse the audio pun) Everyone above is correct it totally depends on what you want to achieve, if you want crystal clear mic audio then don't use speakers, if you want to try it and see if it works the three key things I found to tweak were mic type, mic position (near your face and as far away from the speakers as possible) and speaker volume.