Add a microphone, step by step

Pick your mic, check its level, and set it up for voice or music.

Sources › + › Step by step › Microphone.

1. Microphone: which one, and a live level meter. Talk like you do on stream: the loudest moments should reach the yellow, not the red. flint says if it's too quiet or too loud.
2. Kind: My voice cuts background noise (fans, keyboards); Music or an instrument leaves the sound untouched. Hear it on this computer plays it back to you (headphones only).

Microphones go straight into the mixer; they're always in the stream, in every scene.

Music sounding hollow? A microphone's voice processing (noise suppression, echo cancellation) is made for talking and makes music sound hollow and watery. If your music plays through speakers, your mic hears it, and flint warns you (a note, and MUSIC? on the mic in the mixer: click it to switch the processing off). Best of all: wear headphones, and bring the music in directly: share the screen or app with its sound, or add your audio interface's output as its own microphone source with the processing off.

Related guides

• The audio mixer: Volume, mute, meters, and hearing a source in your headphones.
• Audio filters: cleaner sound: Noise gate, compressor, EQ, gain and limiter, plus balance, mono and lip sync.
• No sound, or the meter doesn't move: Mic permission, mute, the wrong device, or a hidden source.

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