Lewitt LCT-1040, Why OBS Clips at -6dB, & More (BSP-292)

[@LEWITT-audio]

Hi Bandrew. Glad you're having fun with the LCT 1040. We can't wait for the full review. I'm also curious if you're gonna throw the box this time ;)

[@Hablmet]

Can he throw the box? Please?

[@tombuck]

The mic sounds abso-lewittly awesome.

[@danielgaudet6114]

It’s nice to see Brandrew’s evil twin Branden hosting the podcast!

[@BeersAndBeatsPDX]

Moustache? Similar name but slightly off? Definitely an evil twin

[@gregelgie]

KZbin’s close captioning calls him “Bandru”.

[@nomi4355]

That's one hell of a mic. You sounds so good on it Bandrew.

[@QuantumGamingUploads]

Fantastic video. Every video I have seen with this Lewitt LCT1040 the Mic just comes on top everytime. Amazing job by Lewitt

[@LEWITT-audio]

Thanks for the nice words 💚

[@Silverfox.J]

AMAZING MIC!

[@ThatLazyyGuy]

Hey Bandrew, I was the voice submission about OBS/Analog limiters. Thanks for your answers/feedback!. I thought I put my name in but I didn't. Oops! It's Eddie, if that at all mattered to you. The discussion about analog/digital limiters was pretty cool to me. I had a feeling that there was no cheap way to get an analog limiter but it kinda surprised me that getting that set up was as expensive as it is. Digital limiters should suffice for my applications which is mostly just discord VCs. I'm glad you were honest about the audio feedback. I had literally just started processing and I'm thinking to myself "man this does *not* sound how I want it to, but not really sure what to roll back/bump up." Could be that my hearing is just awful but having a better tuned ear to guide me in the right direction really helps. I knew that I'd probably get your feedback months in the future and be listening to the recording again and be like "why did I mess up the processing this badly," but hey I'd rather have asked for feedback and humiliated myself to get better audio rather than just live with bad audio. I've rolled back the gain a bunch so that I'm not distorting the audio like crazy. I was way too concerned about not being heard because before I upgraded to a proper audio set up I had a lot of complaints about not being heard loudly enough over VC. I'll go ahead and lighten up the noise suppression, especially now that I've looked back on your old videos about high pass filter setups and having the high pass filter makes it so that the OBS noise suppression doesn't have to work nearly as hard. For some reason the default noise suppression value in OBS is so dang high... wish the default was a little more subtle. Thanks again and sorry for the lengthy reply! Tried to keep it concise as best I can.

[@NalinAirheart]

You've probably experimented with this already, but I highly recommend trying out the high quality built-in noise suppression (RNNoise, no settings but it "learns" to remove noise) at the beginning of your filter chain, the RTX equivalent, or maybe the version of iZotope RX Elements that's on sale currently. Personally not a big fan of Speex (which defaults to -30 dB), but there are many alternatives. For your gain concerns - I found that the free version of Youlean Loudness Meter has been a handy program to check levels for both loudness and clipping. You can even place it after an effect as a VST to make sure it's not pushing the digital signal to clipping. Assuming you've already set your interface to have headroom it should be fine (and Bandrew has a video on that too). If you're routing audio from OBS into your VC then you can always add a bit of gain there. Most have their own processing though for automatic gain and noise reduction.

[@ThatLazyyGuy]

@@NalinAirheart Thanks for the recommendations! I will look into that. I just started with the stuff built into OBS but I quickly learned that there’s definitely better options out there, especially with noise suppression that can take an audio sample and learn to filter out the target background noise. I have plenty of headroom on the interface, but yeah I didn’t realize when I recorded this months ago that even with a limiter engaged you can still clip dramatically.

[@SimonBracken]

That's why I subscribe to premium. Love it, yes!

[@TechnicalGamingChannel]

The pan law compensation demo just explained why my interface's mono mic monitor sounds so bad... THANK YOU

[@AmpApps]

It actually does sound fantastic. I noticed it instantly when you started speaking.

[@Tarkov.]

Mic sounds great!

[@jeffsancricca7041]

Flagship mic challenge!!

[@math.lacroix]

Can’t wait for the review! It sounds good!

[@eaustin2006]

I saw Towering Inferno at the movies when it came out. Amazing. Those weren't CGI effects, they actually burned stuff down. Soap star Susan Flannery was in it, one of the reasons I went. She gets blown out of the building in the first 15 minutes. A shooting star.

[@singmunicate]

Wow the mustache!...Brandnew, thanks for your very informative podcasts...

[@andidrogynous7347]

Hey Bandrew, great episode as always! I was wondering- do you think at some point you’ll review the Presonus Audiobox GO that was just released? I’m interested to learn more about it. Obviously you’ll pick the items that are best for reviewing purposes but thought I’d ask

[@dickginkowski6071]

Bandrew, I have (thanks to you) a locker of microphones. The ones I play with the most now: Blue Encore 300 (with Fethead Phantom), SM-58 (with Fethead) and a tie between the NT1 and Beta 58a (with Fethead). For my podcast work the Fetheads seem to make a difference increasing gain and reducing noise. The sleeper is the Blue -- $99 special at Sweetwater when they had them. Think of the SM-58 or Beta 58a with a bit more body.

[@Alexandra-Rex]

I love KZbin Premium. It's very nice.

[@ee1yd]

Rockin' that stache

[@PWFenton]

Re: Your possibly broken sE Dynacaster... I had the experience of buying an sE V7 based on it having so many rave reviews. I wound up returning it immediately because I thought it sounded awful. Not distorted... but similar to the way people described your Dynacaster. I have often wondered if I got a bad one, but I was not interested in trying another one. Your experience with the Dynacaster has made me more curious now.

[@michaelj.4187]

"Casablanca"...classic of classics...(Ingrid Bergman)...close...oh my!

[@cyberdefenseddi]

Hope my wife see’s this 😎, Father’s Day present.

One of the things that has happened lately is people updating interfaces, and get angry because of bugs or changes in feature set (GoXLR, Revelator etc.). My suggestion for a Revelator "not review", is that if it's with old firnware. Compare it before and after firmware updates. And then tell people not to update 10 minutes to a "all new update" before they need it, without doing any research of the changes or stability.

[@MikeG-js1jt]

A free $3500 mic is PLENTY of compensation as far as I can tell.

[@peterbrandt7911]

Ingmar is not one of the most common names here in Germany, but also not very unusual. For our ears it has a light scandinavian touch and from memory best known because of a comedian and of course Ingmar Bergman the famous swedish director.

[@jonaswilencfa]

Yeah Ingemar/Ingmar is an ancient (Viking Era) nordic name. So more common in Sweden and Norway,.

[@cresshead]

excellent episode

[@ramspencer5492]

The LCT 1040 is pricy, for sure.... But it's a really interesting proposition anyway....I would think it is really good for music and different sources.

[@Vertshark]

Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke

[@RIMJAM]

Okay...Stephen King's Cats Eye...if you don't like heights, that one will get you...I recommend! Also, you didn't censor that naughty word...that alternative word for "dookie"...I'm not offended, I just wanted to say "dookie"...leaving now. Awesome episode!

[@bsp]

I just watched Cats Eye a few weeks ago. That first short film was rough for me. Damn. I hated it, but it was amazing. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was offended by that word.

[@RIMJAM]

@@bsp Yeahhhhh, Quitters Inc. worked well for me since it was kinda "dark comedy"...but still very uncomfortable. I haven't seen Towering Inferno...gonna add that to the list.

[@RezaMolavi]

Thank you for all you do. Premium subscription is the best $18 i spend every month. Highly recomended.

[@nazerim]

Upvote KZbin Premium - it’s not much, and you never see ads anymore …

[@antoineinniss5586]

hey there Bandrew, do you know of the Audio Technica AT897 shotgun Mic? Can you do a review of this mic? there is strong interest in this mic, but we need an expert review / guidance, before purchasing. thanks

[@EU_DHD]

And now I am 100% Tube.

[@toolshedsz]

Where's the beacn mic review? Waiting for your thoughts before I buy

[@bsp]

It doesn’t have software on mac so I am unable to review.

[@BanderaFilmsAndMusic]

Could you make a vs video? The u87ai vs the 1040, please

[@DarkCornerStudios]

Meh...I dont mind when people talk to you during our livestream...lol It gets the room moving for sure...

[@iamnotacat7018]

I hope.that is a They Might Be Giants cover! :D

[@swschilke]

Bradon, at 15:00 someone called Bandrew is overtaking your video ?!?

[@fancywigglypanda9615]

Hey Bandrew! I have a question about live monitoring from either a USB soundcard or a USB mixer and to why the direct live monitoring sounds better then the recorded version. I've created the theory that signals via the USB tend do distort the signals a bit but I'm not too stuck on my theory. Thanks.

[@JonReynoldsESQ]

If I watch content through KZbin Premium, but adblock still enabled, do content creators still get their cut? It's the only reason I even paid for Premium.

[@bsp]

I don’t see why they wouldn’t. KZbin isn’t trying to display any adverts to you, they are just allocating an amount of your premium membership fee to the creators who you watch based on views. So with an adblocker on I don’t see why it would stop paying creators.

[@blackcoder5449]

Compare akg lyra with c214 and c414 ...I'm trynna see something lol

[@Gholdwayne]

What's that boom arm, looks tanky

[@jacksonhall3151]

Hey Bandrew. What is the most direct way to support the channel? Patreon? KZbin membership? Merch? I joined your Discord server and some people told me membership gives you the biggest cut. Just wanted to verify before I spend my money. Thanks.

[@koenignero]

Please review the Presonus Relevator iO24!!!

[@Zachary_Sweis]

Hi Brandon.

[@timfenton4943]

How do you say there's no news with everything going on with Spotify/Joe Rogan?

[@BeersAndBeatsPDX]

That's just a bunch of people, who don't even own the rights to their music, throwing a fit. Even Jon Stewart said that everybody pulling their music is an "overblown exaggeration."

[@timfenton4943]

@@BeersAndBeatsPDX The topic absolutely fits right into what Bandrew regularly discusses though. Spotify and KZbin have both scrubbed episodes of JRE off their platforms. Bandrew has spoken extentively about why he still has a day job for this very fact, that you are always beholden to the tech companies when you don't own the distibution platform.

[@gregelgie]

Stereograms would definitely be hard for someone with colour blindness. You may be able to turn it to black and white and see it.

[@TheHalfmanofOz]

I've never heard an sEV7 sound as bad as that voice submission...

[@nathanksimpson]

Brandon says podcast? Hmmm. ㅋ_ㅋ

[@artyohm4810]

Lose the moustache for crying out loud otherwise we love you!

[@bsp]

Nope.

[@pingpongowo]

First

[@seanwebb605]

No woman likes it when a man says that.

[@navypti]

"Brandon"?????

[@slicerabbit6166]

BRANDON 😂

[@Raiderss]

L other bandrew better

[@CenturyOfCid]

adblocker this, adblocker that. How about we all just make KZbin paid-subscription only and totally erase all small and hobby creators? Just give them the ultimate punishment for not monetizing their channels by denying them of the service entirely, but it's totally okay because they didn't make money off their content.

[@bsp]

what are you talking about?

[@CenturyOfCid]

@@bsp I was being sarcastic about the enabling of KZbin's corporatization.

[@dickginkowski6071]

Blue Encore 300 is a bit of a sleeper. Smooth top end and a nice bottom. Worth a review, I think.