A quite big problem when playing Horror games.

[unknown_user0032]

Can you turn the gain down? That might help.

 

[karlsanada10]

Is your mic on 100 volume? I usually go for 80 only.

 

[DisOrd3r]

Is your mic on 100 volume? I usually go for 80 only.

When I recorded my mic was at 0.45 (45%)
But I had the mic 10-15 cm from my mouth.
So screaming in fear might get a little bit to loud them.

Will try to go down to 0.2 and we will see

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Can you turn the gain down? That might help.

Do you mean Before or after? Sry I'm bad at these kind of things as I'm just starting!
If you mean after then yes I can but the distortion is already to bad and sound really bad.

 

[ItsTehShadow]

When I recorded my mic was at 0.45 (45%)
But I had the mic 10-15 cm from my mouth.
So screaming in fear might get a little bit to loud them.

Will try to go down to 0.2 and we will see

Thanks for the advice anyway ^^[DOUBLEPOST=1382361228,1382361110][/DOUBLEPOST]
Do you mean Before or after? Sry I'm bad at these kind of things as I'm just starting!
If you mean after then yes I can but the distortion is already to bad and sound really bad.

Think she means beforehand, I have to have my gain at least half on the mic dial otherwise its way too quiet, but it still picks up the distortion..

 

[DisOrd3r]

Think she means beforehand, I have to have my gain at least half on the mic dial otherwise its way too quiet, but it still picks up the distortion..

Ah okey ^^ As I said I have 0.45, and as long as I talk everything is awesome! But when I start screaming in fear the distortion get beyond repair. =/

 

[ARTFXSTUDIOS]

Take the mic volume down, then compress afterwards and bring the volume to a decent level.

 

[Birkendorf]

I think the big guys run their audio through a hardware compressor before they record it. That way they can scream all they want with out distortion.

 

[DisOrd3r]

I think the big guys run their audio through a hardware compressor before they record it. That way they can scream all they want with out distortion.

Interesting, they don't state it in there hardware spec but maybe they do.
Do you know any good ones?

 

[ARTFXSTUDIOS]

I think the big guys run their audio through a hardware compressor before they record it. That way they can scream all they want with out distortion.

I highly doubt that, I think a simple software compressor is more often used.

 

[Tarmack]

OP, your mic is fine for the task. For starters, play with your windows recording levels. Have Audacity open and recording, start talking and make noise, scream a few times. What you are trying to do is find the point just before clipping occurs. To not go into too technical an explanation, clipping is the point where the amplification is such that distortion occurs. Start with your volume low in Windows while making loud noises and increase it in Windows until it clips, then drop it maybe 3-5%.

It's like editing photography. Once you have white, all data is gone. Once it's distorted, you can't fix it. So keep things lower and then amplify later.

This gives you a track where your loud noise should never cause any distortion and you can then edit accordingly. Start off with compression to bring the volume of the scream peaks more in line with the rest of the track, then normalize it at the end. You can do some noise removal as well, just make sure you do that after your normalize.

And lol at comments about the C01U not being up to the task. Patently false. I'd recommend this mic over the Yeti any day of the week.
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I highly doubt that, I think a simple software compressor is more often used.

Depends entirely on how much they care about their sound. You'd be misleading yourself to think that channels like Pewdiepie don't have production teams and hardware processing. Of course they do. A decent compressor can be found in the $200-$300 range and will easily be superior to software compressors.