Setting Up Your Audio (Microphone and Desktop) - OBS in Higher Education - Part 5

In this video, I'm going to show you how to set up your audio sources in OBS, namely your microphone and desktop audio. Your surroundings and your microphone are pivotal to make you sound good in your online live teaching and recordings. To help the audio along, you will learn how to apply filters to improve your microphone audio. Just like with webcams, we will set the audio up as nested scene. Please check out the additional links provided. The timestamps below will let you skip to specific sections of the video. Please like and subscribe, and leave a comment below. 👍 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: - Link to OBS Studio website: https://obsproject.com/ - Direct link to OBS download page: https://obsproject.com/download - Improving the Audio in your Learning Materials (Chris Headleand's Blog): https://chrisheadleand.com/2020/06/27/improving-the-audio-on-your-learning-materials/ - The best budget microphones for Teams and Zoom 2021: https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-microphones ⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 01:52 What's up in this video? 02:57 Preview to the advanced video series 03:54 Your surroundings impact your audio 05:40 Some tips to eliminate background noise 07:55 Microphone considerations 09:01 Link to expert's advice on microphones 09:46 Time to set up the microphone in OBS 10:49 Why set up audio as nested scene? 11:30 General audio settings 12:55 Adding the microphone to the nested scene 15:14 Noise Gate Filter 17:29 Noise Suppression Filter 18:09 Compressor Filter 18:52 Limiter Filter 19:44 Gain Filter 22:02 Adding desktop audio to the nested scene 24:44 Using the nested audio scene in a scene 26:44 Bonus: Change audio mixer to vertical 28:05 Question of the Day