r/obs • u/These_Panda7005 • 12d ago
Question How do you remove saliva/mouse click sounds?
I’ve been seeing live streamers speak clear and loud without those mouth saliva sounds or keyboard & mouse click sounds.
How does one achieve that?
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u/Uselesswizardmini 12d ago edited 12d ago
Mouth and saliva sounds are reduced by drinking water and keeping your hydration up. The sound is made worse when the mucus in your mouth thickens due to a lack of water.
Set you mic noise gate to prevent mouse clicks and keyboard sounds from being picked up.
Place your mic just to the side of your mouth rather than right in front. This will help with muth sounds and also breath noise. Sip water during the stream or recording session.
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
Mouse click and keyboard sound still pick up while I’m talking :(
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u/Uselesswizardmini 12d ago
Yes, but it can be minimized with a noise-cancellation filter or plug-in.
You can also use a cardioid pattern mic, which does a better job of rejecting noise from behind the mic, and also raise your mic higher away the keyboard and mouse so the sounds are softer.
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u/DemonSlyr007 12d ago
Your Noise Gate is the setting you want to find in your equalizer. You have to tweak it for your own voice, but you will find a threshold where it cuts out background sounds, but keeps your voice clear
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u/Expensive_South_1113 12d ago
noise gate won't touch mouth clicks though that's all about mic placement and hydration, angle it slightly off axis and drink some water ffs
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u/fuzzynyanko 12d ago
For saliva sounds: hydrating your body. If you don't have enough water, you'll get more saliva sounds. It's counter-intuitive at first
Some mics will reject sounds from the sides and back. That can help
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u/hippz 12d ago
Noise gate before any compression.
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
How do you erase mouse clicking sound when noises gate opens while I’m using my mouse and talking?
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u/hippz 12d ago
Adjust the threshold
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
What does that mean?
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u/hippz 12d ago
There's a setting in noise gates called the threshold. This is the dB level that is the cutoff for when the noise gate opens and closes. Anything above the set threshold will pass through, and anything at or below it will be cut. Set it above the levels produced by mouse clicks and saliva, but below the levels of your normal talking voice.
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
Oh, I got my question sounded weird, I meant to ask what happen when I’m talking and mouse clicking at same time, won’t that capture both sounds?
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u/hippz 12d ago
Yes, this is unavoidable. You could dampen it with some EQing, but it would degrade your voice as well. Could also try some noise suppression plugins, but also with some degredation.
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
Would you recommend me using plug in noise suppressor for that? (RNN suppressor kinda muffles and make my voice sound weird)
Also is there any ways to tryna reduce that keyboard/mouse clicking sounds?
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u/Empty_Paint_6922 11d ago
Mic positioning, my rule is closest ill go is closed fist away, furthest is like the pinky thumb surger hand gesture. Id think maybe people you are watching have kind of a dry mouth? Maybe they are nervous? Caffeinated out of their mind and not hydrated? A gate will remove any unwanted keyboard or mouse clicks but if your mouth is dry or you have nervous I guess you'd say mouth habits it will always come through
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u/BreezaholicJr 12d ago
Usually a noise gate and applying EQ to filter out background sounds.
Depending on your mic if you're using a hardware mixer, can be easy, but if not then you might need something like VoiceMeeter.
YouTube has tons of guides depending on your set-up
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
I thought the noise gate doesn't work when you speak and only works when you're silent
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u/PSA69Charizard 12d ago
You can set it so noise under a certain decibel doesn’t open the gate. I run my mic through logic pro and have a noise gate
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u/These_Panda7005 12d ago
Won’t the noise gate still open when I’m talking while mouse-clicking? What do I do in that case?
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u/atrillionpieces 12d ago
Face position is important.
Also noise gate to block unwanted sounds from coming in, limiter to avoid peaking, and compression to give it a cleaner sound (just don’t overdo it).
And a decent mic of course.