Question / Help Static from microphone. Possible noise filtering?

[Shilag]

Hello.
I've been looking around the forum but I have not found any solution to the issue I'm having.
Essentially, whenever I speak while streaming through OBS, there's a lot of static, white noise, in the background of my voice.
Yes, I have tried applying a noise gate and I'm using push-to-talk anyways, the problem is not that there's constant static, it's that the noise gate is just a gate, not a filter.
As soon as I speak and cross the noise gate threshold, ALL the sound from my microphone gets broadcasted, and that includes the static that the gate was blocking out.

I really don't want to have to use Window's built in noise cancellation because that is horrible and butchers the microphone quality. When I record videos for youtube I record my raw microphone input and use a noise removal filter in Audacity, which works out much better, however there doesn't seem to be anything like that in OBS.

Does anyone know of any way to work around this, to through OBS or a third-party program, filter out the noise rather than shutting it out with a gate whenever there's no other sound?

 

[Lain]

If it's just background noise then there's little we can really do to help, however if it's something like strange static or interference, then that's usually PC-related, and there are a few ways to reduce it from occurring, mostly by turning down other devices on the system (lowering webcam resolution for example), or switching ports.

I really want to get some better audio filters. Hopefully the new version will bring in some people to help with that.

 

[Shilag]

Thank you for the reply.
No, I do not believe there's something particularly WRONG going on here.
Because I have all audio enhancements disabled in windows and realtek audio there is definitely some
static going on in the background of my microphone, but for things like Mumble, they have built-in noise suppression that handles the issue way better than windows does, and I can post-process recordings in Audacity to remove noise as well.

Having something like that in OBS would be really quite great. A simple noise cancellation filter,
and not just a gate. Essentially to tell the program never to broadcast noises that are below a certain volume or frequency, instead of it broadcasting them anyways where there's "more audio" going on.

I hope I'm making sense. Just wanted to check if there was a workaround for this either in OBS or using another program, hopefully a feature like this gets implemented soon, I'd very much appreciate it.

Thank you for the help. You could probably close this thread now, then.