How to prevent Blue snowball from clipping?

troy1960

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Apr 3, 2016
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So when I record videos of games for YouTube, I mostly scream, but then my mic starts clipping and during editing it sounds horrible. It just hurts, that's how loud and distorted it is. Can someone tell me how I can make my mic pickup both faint sounds(me talking) but kind of suppress screaming so it doesn't clip? I can't afford things like compressors so it has to be software.
 
Solution
You would use Audacity, and set some soft and hard limits. But if you are screaming, then of course it would clip because you are raising the pitch.
but my mic can handle the screaming fine when i turn the gain down to like -3decibels, and i then can increase the audio during editing and add a compressor, only issue with that is that no-one can hear me on discord and you get alot of background noises like faint hissing and keyboard typing and mouse clicks. Ill give audacity a try in my next video.