Mic Essing

[EZY0252]

Hello folks,
I am encountering alot of essing and popping in OBS with my MIC.
I use a HS70 Wireless Headset and when I have the MIC feedback on I do not hear it but when I listen to the monitor in OBS and when streaming it is very overpowering and I can't work out how to stop it from happening in OBS. I've tried suppression, compressor, 3 band eq and others and can't seem to work out how to stop it from happening. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
EZY

 

[AaronD]

If it's a P-pop, then you need a windscreen on the mic, or to be farther away to let the burst of air dissipate a bit. Having the mic off-axis helps too, so that the burst of air goes past it instead of into it.
If it's a bad electrical connection, fix the connection.

For the esses, the pros have a tool called (unsurprisingly) a de-esser. You can think of it as a 2-way or 3-way crossover, all at high frequencies, a compressor on the top band(s), and then it mixes back together into a single output signal. OBS doesn't have that. I've (poorly) approximated it by drastically cutting the high band of a full-parametric EQ - tweak the gain, frequency, and slope of that one band to kill the very top end without also killing intelligibility - but OBS doesn't have that either. The top band of the 3-band EQ covers too much of the spectrum.

You might try some VST plugins - maybe a de-esser, maybe a multiband compressor that you only use the top band(s) of, maybe a parametric EQ, or maybe a combination of those - but OBS itself doesn't have what you need.

OBS is not a DAW, nor does it try to be. If you need more than just a plugin/filter that OBS doesn't have natively, you might take a serious look at actually using a DAW for all of your audio work. Then bring the finished soundtrack into OBS as its only input, to pass through unchanged.

(DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. It's essentially a complete sound studio in one app.)