Audio Interfaces and clipping

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Dale

For OMs you don’t need to go down the DAW route, it gets pretty complicated. As easy win is to send the audio and video to OBS. You can do AVOYP recordings there or send the audio and video to Zoom for OMs. The audio input capture sources can be boosted by adding a gain preset but also a limiter to avoid clipping.

I also use a Loudness Meter (Youlean) so you can get to the optimum levels for YouTube. But Zoom seems to lose about 2db on any input (at least) so you can push it further from OBS.

Check out the OM Tech threads on set up. There is one that cover OBS use for OMs.

These may help

Getting The Right Loudness Levels and Mix

Following on from Open Mic 10, some questions were raised about optimum loudness levels and how to achieve them. I had been having a side bar conversation with @davidp following his recent OBS experiments and some of this was centred on using loudness meters. So rather than re-invent the wheel, I’ll let this guy describe how he uses Youlean Loudness Meter 2 which can be obtained as freeware and upgraded to pro at a reasonable price (mho give the tools capabilities). It can be added as a VST plu…

Using OBS with an Audio Interface on Windows for streaming to send to Zoom

Introduction This is a brief explanation of how to use a multi-channel audio device, such as a Focusrite Scarlett Solo, or a Behringer UMC204HD (as in my case) with OBS on Windows to support streaming to Zoom or other video conferencing applications. Note that this isn’t a tutorial on using OBS or using OBS for streaming to Zoom. This posts focuses on getting the audio interface set up with OBS so that you can perform mixing between the two inputs, and apply separate plugins to those inputs. …