Does anyone know how to improve a condenser microphone sound quality?

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Since I'm going to be reviewing every episode of The Loud House, I decided to buy a microphone with higher quality than my Apple earbuds. This is the one I bought. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XPF6NZ7/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 However, yesterday I noticed there was some very audible white noise. It could be because I have the mic plugged into a USB adapter, and the USB adapter plugged into a device allowing for USB cables plugged into my laptop, but the quality seemed okay before yesterday. Listen to the very beginning of this stream archive. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/168080723 It does not sound good. I already recorded a few episode reviews with the white noise, and the last thing I want to do is go through the pain of re-recording them, so I'll have to use some kind of application to eliminate the white noise. What can I do to make my microphone sound better? Or is it just $14.99 that I wasted?
 
Baloo said:
pieguy impersonator
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Is that really necessary? Yes, my Loud House reviews will be similar to PieGuy's SpongeBob reviews, but that's not the point of this topic. If you can't help me, why bother to post to this topic?
 
I bought a microphone quite similar to this one and it seems to work fine. Of course, I don't use it that much, but I have tested it given I've always thrown around the idea of starting my own YT channel.

White noise...hmm...don't have any solutions for that. But do recordings contain slight noises it may have picked up from the background? Might be tricky if you don't want those.

It may just be that the quality's better when it's plugged straight into the laptop (assuming that's possible, of course.)
 
The DS Guy said:
Is that really necessary? Yes, my Loud House reviews will be similar to PieGuy's SpongeBob reviews, but that's not the point of this topic. If you can't help me, why bother to post to this topic?
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It's not original.
In all seriousness, see if plugging the microphone into a different port helps.
 
Plugging it into the USB seemed to work fine at first. I can't plug it directly into my laptop, but I bought a splitter that might sound better.
 
Pretty cheap mic but it sounded decent when you were talking. Might be able to just put a noise gate on it with OBS or whatever you're using... could just be picking up background noise although it was pretty distorted
 
abney317 said:
Pretty cheap mic but it sounded decent when you were talking. Might be able to just put a noise gate on it with OBS or whatever you're using... could just be picking up background noise although it was pretty distorted
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I use a noise gate in OBS. But when I'm talking, you can hear the buzzing sound in the background. Since my Loud House reviews will be talking and not music, audio quality is incredibly important, but I want it to at least be listenable. I don't want people to have to hear the bad buzzing sounds. And yet I don't really want to use my earbud mic, since I paid valuable money for the one I got on Amazon.
 
The DS Guy said:
I use a noise gate in OBS. But when I'm talking, you can hear the buzzing sound in the background. Since my Loud House reviews will be talking and not music, audio quality is incredibly important, but I want it to at least be listenable. I don't want people to have to hear the bad buzzing sounds. And yet I don't really want to use my earbud mic, since I paid valuable money for the one I got on Amazon.
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What about using the noise suppression filter?
 
abney317 said:
What about using the noise suppression filter?
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I don't use that, but maybe that's what I need to do. Thanks for the suggestion.

Honest Slug said:
Every episode is ScumTrash because it's a ScumTrash show.

I finished the script for you.
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Not true, but to give you a bit of a teaser. Every episode will be rated either good, meh, or a third rating. All three ratings will be used in season 1. The only question is what episodes and how many of each.

And you don't know what I'll rate the season. As a matter a fact, I'm not completely sure, either. I said before that the show is good, but I was speaking based on first impressions. Currently, I've recorded my reviews for 24 episodes, which is slightly less than half. It takes at least three viewings to really know my opinion, sometimes even more than that. So don't think you know exactly what I'll rate the episodes and season.
 
The DS Guy said:
And you don't know what I'll rate the season. As a matter a fact, I'm not completely sure, either. I said before that the show is good, but I was speaking based on first impressions. Currently, I've recorded my reviews for 24 episodes, which is slightly less than half. It takes at least three viewings to really know my opinion, sometimes even more than that. So don't think you know exactly what I'll rate the episodes and season.
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The review comes out in one week
 
BenPaz said:
The review comes out in one week
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Not likely. I still have to record 28 more reviews, add the pictures for each episode, make a "scum" frame and transition, and cut out the unnecessary audio, of which there is a lot. I'm not gonna bother with DS-cons. That's too hard, and I don't have any DS-cons.
 
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