Release time is the fade-out time from on to off once the hold time is over.

The hold time is how long the mic stays open after it has stopped detecting sound within the range. Attack time is the fade-in time when the mic goes from off to on. If you’re on the quiet side when it comes to speaking, your close threshold may cut off your voice if it’s too low.ĭon’t be too concerned with the other settings. You want a pretty tight threshold range, but it’s easy to have the quiet parts of your voice cut off. You’ll want to experiment a bit with this by doing some practice recordings. Increase the open threshold until it doesn’t show any input, then bring it down slightly from there. Your microphone shouldn’t be picking up anything unless you’re talking! To set the open threshold, start talking and you should see that the sound bar is picking up your voice. If any noise is being picked up by OBS, just move the close threshold closer to zero until there is no more background noise being picked up. Computers on, housemates watching TV, anything that would typically come up in your recording. To calibrate it better, you should sit completely silent in front of your mic, with average background noise. This means that the mic will mute any sounds quieter than -32 db and when the mic hits -26 db it will turn on the mic. By default, the noise gate will come with a Close Threshold of -32 db and an open threshold of -26 db. In an ideal streaming scenario, your talking voice will open the noise gate, but background noise will not.ĭialing in your noise gate may require some trial and error. Noise gates work by only turning on the microphone once it detects a certain decibel range.

Streamlabs audio setup