New show: NewsReal with Joe & Niall

[Scottie]

I'm gonna see if the Xsplit Audio Mixer Extension is any help.

Er, no... It's now built in to Xsplit. The audio mixer in Xsplit has plenty of options and sliders, but jacking them up does exactly nothing - for reasons I don't quite understand. Why have a slider if it doesn't do anything?!

However, I did re-discover the Per Scene Audio extension, which we have installed... It has its own mic volume control. When I turned that up to 100% (from 50%), the audio now hits 0dB (red bars on audio meter) when speaking. So I'm hoping that extension's control was overriding the built-in one.

We'll see if that does it soon enough!

 

[Benjamin]

Er, no... It's now built in to Xsplit. The audio mixer in Xsplit has plenty of options and sliders, but jacking them up does exactly nothing - for reasons I don't quite understand. Why have a slider if it doesn't do anything?!

Sounds like the signal is not being routed through the audio mixer portion of Xsplit.

The is the path from two mics -> physical mixer (with phantom power? which mixer if I may ask?) -> VoiceMeeter mixer -> Xsplit -> output?

 

[Scottie]

The audio path is mics with phantom power -> Behringer X1204USB -> USB -> VoiceMeeter software mixer -> Xsplit.

 

[Niall]

New Year, New War?

With war in Ukraine still raging, it's too soon, surely?...

Perhaps not for desperate Empire Builders.

They need to 'contain' China, and they need to do it NOW...

 

[KJS]

I also often hear this podcast on car audio, and I must say there is a considerable difference in volume between others. I've opened an mp3 file in DAW, and the peaks look like this:


The signal compression looks OK, but the overall volume could be pushed by 10dB without any issues like clipping:

Maybe you guys can experiment with the limiter on a sum? For example, these settings worked for me to bring up podcast volume to a satisfying level:

You can see how far I pushed the threshold, but the resulting signal is louder (the lower one is after the processing with settings above):

MindMatters seems to be louder than NewsReal by ~6dB, and the signal appears to be more compressed, which is more practical when hearing in an environment with moderate noise (but it also can be pushed louder):

My 2c Really like the show, especially after the length got reduced, big thumbs up!

 

[The Mechanic]

I just wanted to say that besides the discussion the volume level was also great today

 

[Voyageur]

Thanks for the year round up.

As for the mention of the megalomaniac Churchill's Operation Unthinkable (still living in a global unthinkable operation of mass dimensions), here is an overview:

 

[brandon]

I just wanted to say that besides the discussion the volume level was also great today

Yep! Volume's nice and loud now, yay! Good work Scottie :)

 

[Timótheos]

Yep! Volume's nice and loud now, yay! Good work Scottie :)

Yes indeed, I too noticed a significant improvement in the audio levels on this week's show, using YouTube on both my mobile phone and television. There were also a few commentors in the live chat who chimed in to report better volume output levels. Well done, Mr. Scott!

 

[KJS]

Great show and indeed, the volume is now comfortable, no need to turn my equipment to the max volume and got killed by system sound or the next autoplay track! I don't want to be "that smart ass", but have you looked at Krisp for a noise cancellation (that background microphone hiss)? It has support for Xsplit, and it appears that it's by far the easiest noise suppressor to work with. Not that it's needed, but it could be another step toward perfection (as was the volume boost).

 

[on_strike_usaexpat]

Thanks, volume is now excellent. Thanks again,

 

[Niall]

What's Biden been hidin'? Classified documents!

Scandalous! Impeach him!

Hang on, haven't we seen this movie already?

 

[Niall]

Three days later, YouTube removed the 'Biden classified documents' show, because:

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I don't recall us even briefly mentioning such, although we did so regarding the 2022 Brazilian election. It's as if someone watched the show, or skipped through parts of it, and made such a call based on 'a flavor' of what we were saying to extrapolate that we are 'unbelievers' in 'Murikan democracy.

Idiots!

 

[Glenn]

I don't recall us even briefly mentioning such,...

Ah, but you may have been thinking it... and that is not allowed!

Actually, if you put arguments forward, that might lead someone to such a conclusion, without even stating it, I think that would be enough to be removed.

 

[Revolucionar]

@Scottie @Niall I feel bad for not listening in awhile and not looking at this thread.

I think the issue you're having is because mixer doesn't have enough gain on the preamps to drive the Shure SM7B mics.
Do you have a different mic that you can try with the same settings to see if you can get the same loudness with less added gain producing less hiss?
If that's the case, you're going to need a cloud lifter for each mic or a new mixer or dedicated preamps.
Btw, you don't need phantom power for these mics, but that's almost certainly not causing any issues anyway.