Question / Help Using OBS mic filtering with Slack?

[AgsMyDude]

Hi!

I currently work in a room that contains a window unit and it's a pretty loud. Currently I have to shut it off when I get on a conference call. I found OBS to potentially use filtering to help remove some of this ambient noise.

I do most of my communication on the Slack application using a Blue Snowball mic but it still pics up the noise. I'm really new to OBS. Is there a way for me to use the mic filtering live without connecting to an official stream source?

 

[Narcogen]

If you have something like Virtual Audio Cables instead, you could conceivably set OBS monitor output to go to a virtual output and then have Slack use that as an input, but I haven't tried that.

You might be better off just getting a cheap or free VST host application, adding some noise gates/compressors to that, and using that to run a virtual input for Slack, assuming Slack lacks those features.