
If you going to use OBS to record YouTube videos you can add filters to your mic to make it that much better. Gain I have on about 15% percent due to me having a soft voice. Not gain I'm saying with the Hyper X quadcast there is no volume control if you were plugging a headset into the mic itself. I'm looking to move a step up from my headset mic, but i'm not going full recording studio.Īlternatively instead of buying a soundcard and a 3.5mm mic you could get something like Focusrite scarlett solo which would then let you choose an XLR mic. I should point out i'm recording videos for youtube, not streaming, so quality is important. If i go a 3.5mm instead of usb mic i'd have to get a soundcard for sure. Ive tried that and i sound like i'm talking parseltounge (hissssssss). There are tons of threads in all sorts of forums and the few times people have actually marked it as solved they've gone the the apo equalizer route. You did say you use it at volume 6, are you referring to the gain knob on the microphone? You're using filters? What kind of filters? Interestingly i dont find people having the too soft problem with your mic, while there are tons with the yeti, even here on these forums. Otherwise whats a decent mic that uses a 3.5mm jack input of similar quality and price to the Yeti. Perhaps someone here has a solution to the USB problem i haven't come across yet. I was considering getting a Blue Yeti USB as an upgrade to my headset mic for recording, but after much searching and finding that the problem is related to microsofts handling of USB and nothing to do with the mic itself I'm now not sure what to do.

And the last is to run a VM of windows 7 and use it to record the mic audio, which is a painful solution that i'd rather not use.


Another is to buy some sort of mixer that can take a usb mic and so long as it has its own drivers then the problem does not arise. One workaround is to use a software equaliser to boost the mic, but this adds so much static its not a real solution if you're using the mic for anything where quality is important. There is an extremely long windows support thread where a microsoft dev was able to replicate the problem, but no one has done anything to fix it. So this problem is common and after much searching i'm pretty confident i know where the issue lies.
