AT2020 picks up a lot of clicking and keyboard mashing. Any suggestions to solve it?

RiceDaddy said:
I think it has to do with post processing. You'll have to manually eliminate background noise through software's when you're done recording your videos and grab the audio file separately so you can tamper it during post production.
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No, you can't properly eliminate keyboard clicking in post. This is a mic placement and gain issue, not an editing issue.
 
Tarmack said:
No, you can't properly eliminate keyboard clicking in post. This is a mic placement and gain issue, not an editing issue.
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Well technically you can, through the use of noise gate in adobe audition, pretty sure audacity has this to, but you can almost negate anything from car beeps that is right outside from your house to taps on keyboards, but since the mouse is close to the mic it's going to be hard by sacrificing the voice quality to noise out other frequencies close to the mic. But in reality you're right, you can't virtually noise out mouse clicks without properly setting up the audio interface to the desire location.
 
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RiceDaddy said:
Well technically you can, through the use of noise gate in adobe audition, pretty sure audacity has this to, but you can almost negate anything from car beeps that is right outside from your house to taps on keyboards, but since the mouse is close to the mic it's going to be hard by sacrificing the voice quality to noise out other frequencies close to the mic. But in reality you're right, you can't virtually noise out mouse clicks without properly setting up the audio interface to the desire location.
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I assume you mean noise removal. Noise gate is a totally different effect.

The issue with noise removal is that not every key click is going to sound the same. Different finger velocity gives a different sound to a variety of clicks. Noise removal isn't very effective at individual noise mixed in with vocals. It's primarily suited to ambient noise.
 
Move the mic closer to your mouth, turn the gain down, and use background noise removal or a noise gate in Audition or Audacity.
 
Tarmack said:
I assume you mean noise removal. Noise gate is a totally different effect.

The issue with noise removal is that not every key click is going to sound the same. Different finger velocity gives a different sound to a variety of clicks. Noise removal isn't very effective at individual noise mixed in with vocals. It's primarily suited to ambient noise.
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No, I actually mean Noise Gate, which is the process of attenuating or minimizing noises, which I have expressed thoroughly. Sorry for a late reply.
 
RiceDaddy said:
No, I actually mean Noise Gate, which is the process of attenuating or minimizing noises, which I have expressed thoroughly. Sorry for a late reply.
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If you gate the whole track at once over vocals though, there is a very high risk of damaging the voice.
 
RiceDaddy said:
What?
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Users are recording vocals where the microphone is also picking up keyboard clicks. In order for a noise gate to be of use, the clicks will have to be obviously on the lower db range of things and fairly isolated in order to be gated. This is unlikely, which means your gate has a high chance of gating low end vocals as well.
 
Tarmack said:
Users are recording vocals where the microphone is also picking up keyboard clicks. In order for a noise gate to be of use, the clicks will have to be obviously on the lower db range of things and fairly isolated in order to be gated. This is unlikely, which means your gate has a high chance of gating low end vocals as well.
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.... I don't understand why you're posting something that I've already covered in general on my previous post...
 
RiceDaddy said:
.... I don't understand why you're posting something that I've already covered in general on my previous post...
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Technically, you didn't post that. All you said was that you could eliminate it. Tarmack is stating why using noise gate could be harmful to the voice recording, which you didn't mention at all.
 
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