Question / Help OBS MP - Noise Gate not working?

[RicardoK]

Hi,

I'm trying to play around with the noise gate. I have a media source which is an IP camera, via rtsp. The audio comes in the rtsp stream.

I go to the filters and add a noise gate filter, first with the default parameters. But when I start playing with the parameters I notice no changes in the audio output (recorded stream). Just to test I narrow down the noise gate threshold window to only 1db (like -30db and -29db) and still see no difference in the recorded stream audio, it's the same as if I remove the noise gate filter altogether.

As a comparison I ran OBS Classic and I do see audio cutting out if it's below the threshold. Is there something different I need to do with OBS Studio?

 

[RicardoK]

No pointers on this?

Thanks for any help

 

[Lain]

Are you saying that the settings aren't updating? Are you absolutely sure that nothing is changing? Is it just not working or is it just seeming to say at the default settings despite being changed?

 

[RicardoK]

Thanks for your reply.

Since OBS MP doesn't have a meter like in the Classic, I wasn't finding the appropriate levels to set, and I was thinking incorrectly that if I narrowed the window it would make a difference.

I was able to get it working by moving the gates to a point that sound got cut off. I'm not sure how to make it more smooth though. Sometimes it seems that it cuts the ambient noise but not completely (noise "pops in and out" in a cycle)