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Audio Recording Optimization
Stragint
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Hello,
I was hoping to get some advice on optimizing my audio when recording gameplay footage.
Right now I use a blue snowball USB microphone. When I record on PC I use that microphone along with Shadowplay and when I record console games I use the same microphone and I use an elgato HD60 S.
The problem I keep coming across is there always seems to be a low hum when I record with the elgato and I can't find a way to record the audio and gameplay separately so I can try to edit the audio. Not that I would even know what to do but it would be helpful if I could at least get to that point. The hum has happened with both my PS3 and PS4.
When I record PC stuff there is a buzzing when I talk. Sometimes it isn't that noticeable and sometimes it is loud. The most recent recording I did the buzzing was very loud and I could not hear anything else in the video.
The only thing I could think to do with the pc recording is to record the commentary with the elgato sound capture and see if I can edit it that way as a separate sound file but I haven't tried that yet and I don't have audio editing stuff in the first place.
This has caused a lot of frustration for me and has made it very hard to progress with this.
Any advice and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I was hoping to get some advice on optimizing my audio when recording gameplay footage.
Right now I use a blue snowball USB microphone. When I record on PC I use that microphone along with Shadowplay and when I record console games I use the same microphone and I use an elgato HD60 S.
The problem I keep coming across is there always seems to be a low hum when I record with the elgato and I can't find a way to record the audio and gameplay separately so I can try to edit the audio. Not that I would even know what to do but it would be helpful if I could at least get to that point. The hum has happened with both my PS3 and PS4.
When I record PC stuff there is a buzzing when I talk. Sometimes it isn't that noticeable and sometimes it is loud. The most recent recording I did the buzzing was very loud and I could not hear anything else in the video.
The only thing I could think to do with the pc recording is to record the commentary with the elgato sound capture and see if I can edit it that way as a separate sound file but I haven't tried that yet and I don't have audio editing stuff in the first place.
This has caused a lot of frustration for me and has made it very hard to progress with this.
Any advice and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
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It may be a hardware issue causing the hum (we have a soundboard that does this due to something with power we can never figure out), but most audio editing software should allow you to use adaptive noise reduction to isolate the hum and at least quiet it a great deal. I've typically done this in Adobe Audition by leaving a few seconds of silence at the start to single out the hum, and then pointing Audition at it to make a noise print and reducing that out of the whole commentary track. There is a way to do that in Audacity too, if you use that for audio, but I don't know it off-hand.
Hopefully I can get everything running better and remove that hum.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.