Open Threshold: Allows you to set a specific decibel threshold that must be met in order for the microphone to turn on and pick up the sound.When you add the Noise Gate filter, you will see several options that you can customize. By introducing a Noise Suppression filter you can get rid of these annoying background noises.Ĭustomizable options for the Noise Gate filter If you stop talking, pay attention to your audio levels in the mixer, you will notice some sort of background noise being picked up by your microphone. You may hears cars driving in the background, air condition units, the fan from your computer, etc. Noise SuppressionĪ good microphone is going to pick up a lot of background noise. This leads me to our next filter: Noise Suppression. Please note that as you turn up the gain you are more likely to hear background noise. The gain filter in this instance will come in handy to make sure you are hitting those optimal levels. If you find that your audio levels are still too low after turning up the gain control on your mic and the audio control in Streamlabs Desktop, don’t worry some mics are naturally more quiet than others. The effect of the built-in gain control and the gain filter in Streamlabs Desktop is the same. A lot of microphones already have a built-in gain control on them. Turn the gain up, and your audio levels go up. Turn the gain down, and your audio levels go down. The gain filter gives you finer control to adjust your audio levels. Gain simply refers to the loudness of the audio. The first filter we are going to discuss is called “Gain”. This will let you hear exactly what your viewers will be hearing from your microphone and give you greater control to fine tune your audio settings. Change your Audio Monitoring for you microphone to “Monitor Only”.

A great way to monitor the effect of the filters is to open the advanced audio settings by clicking the settings cog in the mixer section.

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