Hey Salty, cheers for the video... It contained just the right amount of information I needed to get my mic sounding fantastic. No amount of video could have told me I'd set my mic up the wrong way though - haha. Thanks again!
ruclips.net/video/sA2R8rLAqLw/видео.html - Another NoiseGator setup video. He shows a few things I don't, but neglects to mention the need for Java. ruclips.net/video/DudUTHiLze/видео.html - How to setup your cruddy headset to sound not quite so cruddy with VoiceMeeter Banana.
Hi, I hightly appreciate the detailed explanation and I was able to impletement the noise cancellation following the settings shown by you. You got a new subscriber to your channel. Thanks again.
These days, I do most of my noise gate stuff in post-production. I record with the least amount of background noise I can manage, and then use the noise gate feature of my video editing software to cut out as much noise as possible during editing.
Incidentally VB-Audio who are behind that virtual audio cable is also the dev behind Voicemeeter, Voicemeeter Banana/Potato. So I guess it's just Voicemeeter Banana that has that issue, and probably Potato too since it's even more complex. Voicemeeter itself, however, is less complex than Banana, so one could also try that, if it even has the noise cancellation feature.
These days I tend to do my noise-gating in post. That's really the better way anyway, since I can adjust levels on-the-fly. (I set Shadowplay to record separate game audio and voice audio tracks.)
The noise gate is exactly what I described: It hits the mute button when the volume level is too low. That's all it is. It's NOT a magic filter that can tell the difference between the sound of a human voice and the sound of my computer's fans.
If you want a magic filter that "knows" the difference between human voice and fan noise, I've been told that NVidia RTX Voice does that. But I haven't tried it myself, so...
Hi when i activate noise gate my voice is repeated back to me. I couldnt find any setting to turn off play back devices. but in my sound setting the checkbox is unchecked. This happens only when i activate noise gate. how to turn it off
I have a yeti mic and a headset. I have it setup and its working perfect I just hear my own voice!! My input is my mic and my output is my headset. I hear my voice
Use earbuds/headset, because the speaker is too close to the mic so it constantly records your mic so it will echo pretty loud which I had aswell before lol
Hello, I'm using Airdrop but its collecting all the other noise while I make calls from my android. Is there any application to cut down the unwanted noise for Android?
NoiseGator doesn't reduce noise at all. It only has a noise gate. Meaning it just cuts your audio entirely until you are talking into your mic. it won't remove noise.
Hello and Thank You for taking the time to provide this informative video. However, when I speak into my headset microphone, I hear myself. Can you please tell me what I can do to remove this?
This application does not work anymore, i was using it for the past 2 years and now it wont launch open. Even deleted it and downloaded again. Sad. Could use some help trouble shooting but after a full uninstall and reinstall idk.
I wish I had some useful advice for you. Sadly, I got nothing. I've started doing post-production noise gate on all my videos, which is a lot easier and gives me much finer control over how much background noise I want to cut out. But that's not the kind of noise gating that people who use NoiseGator actually want. I know that OBS has a real-time noise gate built in, but that thing is awful heavy on the resources, so nobody's going to run it alongside their everyday gaming stuff if they have any choice whatsoever. There are also some commercial software noise gates, but some of them are AI-based (burns your GPU, eats a gig of memory), and others are ridiculously overpriced. I wish I had time to write my own free and open-source noisegate program ala NoiseGator. It would take some reading of the Windows SDK docs, but I'm pretty sure I could do it. Anyone wanna give me a MacArthur grant so I can have the three months I need to do it? :P
When I set up VB audio cable, my Output does not respond to anything I'm saying, it just stays at the 0 volume icon while my Blue yeti (which isn't set to default) Picks up the mic just fine...Pls help
It will depend on your team call software. The team call software must be be able to record sound from the output of the virtual cable that is hooked up to the noise gate. If you can configure your team call software to record from the virtual cable output, then the noise gate should work. Be aware: Some team call software has a noise gate built into it already. So check your team call software to make sure noise reduction of some kind isn't built in.
@@biancagabela_7775 I have no idea. Even if you told me what the software was, I wouldn't know the specifics about that program. If there's an IT guy in your office, you can try asking him. He *might* know... or might not. But that's better than asking me. Because I'm sure that I don't know!
Too many possibilities to be sure... The first thing I would check is to make sure your recording software is actually recording the virtual cable output, not the regular mic. Second thing would be to check what your Threshold, Attack time and Release time settings are. Those need to be tuned carefully to get the noise gate to work even halfway decently.
Hi. I want to use NoiseGator and VB Audio Virtual Cable for real-time filtering a phone transmission. So I want to connect the phone via a jack-to-jack to the mic jack socket of the laptop and to listen to the output via the soundblaster attached to the laptop. Will it work? I ask because I didn't succeed. Can you help me please?
In theory it should be possible. I don't know if my advice will help you or not. But here is my advice: Step 1) Plug a microphone into the mic jack and see if you can record your own voice. This step is to make sure the mic jack on your computer works. Step 2) Plug your phone into the mic jack and see if you can record a phone call. This step is to make sure the telephone will work with your computer's mic jack. Step 3) Plug the microphone back in and make sure it still works. Then install Noisegator and the virtual cables, and configure them. Then try and record your microphone through the noise gate. This step is to make sure the noise gate works. Step 4) Unplug the microphone. Plug your telephone in. Try and record again. If it works, then you should be recording your telephone through the noise gate. Good luck!
Lower your attack time and/or threshold. Also reduce noise in the area near the mic. (Your PC's fans might be louder than your voice, causing the noise gate to open even when you're not speaking.)
can anyone help me? noisegator works when i listen to it when unmuted, but not in anything else like, games, discord, and OBS. i put my input as microphone realtek and output as headphones realtek because VBAudio doesnt work for me
How come it's interfering with the sound from videos/movies that I play when I'm using the built in speakers on my laptop? I mean i can hear the conversation clearly but not the background music. Please help
I'm afraid I can't understand what you're asking. Are you playing music out the speakers of your laptop and then expecting the noise gate to subtract that out of your mic?
@SaltyPuglord It says "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0" but I have java on my pc. (EDIT: This has been fixed I asked on another video)
I never had this problem, so I'm not sure what the cure is. If you have "Listen to this Device" checked in any of your "Recording" devices, uncheck that. Otherwise, I've been told that it's probably your sound drivers intentionally playing some of your mic sound back at you. And I don't know how to fix that.
@@deaconwoodie6618 late reply but you need to install a virtual audio cable and then set the output to that, then in all of the apps you want to use noise gator in like discord or skype, set the input to that virtual audio cable. there’s a tutorial on this
"Attack" is basically how fast the noise gate opens. At the very beginning of the video, you can hear that the first tiny bit of "Hey" is cut off. The noise gate didn't open fast enough. That would be considered "slow attack". Which I don't like. Attack speed is hard to tune right because you have to strike a balance between background noise volume (which you want the noise gate to cut off) and soft speech (which you want the noise gate to let through). "Release" is basically how fast the noise gate closes. If the ends of your sentences are getting cut off, the release is too fast. If you hear static after I stop speaking, the release was too slow. Better noise gates (like the one in OBS) have a higher threshold for attack and a lower one for release. So it takes significantly more volume to open the noise gate, but it stays open even if the next syllable you speak is softer. Noisegator doesn't do this, sadly. I am sorely tempted to write my own noise gate program (with blackjack, and hookers) but it's a much lower priority than some other work-related things in my life right now. If I ever get around to it, it'll be freeware and I'll post about it here on the channel.
I never ran into this problem myself, so I don't know how to fix it. I did hear about other people having it. Some of them had a "Listen to this" setting checked in their Windows audio device settings. Others, it was just part of their sound drivers and there was no way to fix it. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Man the program really sucks lol. I don't know how you have it set up but my just flicks open and closed repeatedly when i'm doing nothing and then cuts off half of what I say when I do talk. Currently have attack time on 10 and release on 100. I've changed it around quite a bit varying from 5/10 to 100/1000. Quite the terrible program really...
After working with it for a while, I realized that it needs what OBS has: a dual threshold. One threshold to open (set higher) and another to close (set lower, just above the ambient noise level). I don't want to spoil anything, but... well let's say that someone might be working on a native Windows noise gate with dual thresholds that will be free (libre) when it's done.
Discord's works flawlessly for me interestingly so i'm guessing they likely have that as well or something. Need someone to just rip Discord's out and allow you to use it with any other program. Granted Discord probably uses their servers to analyze it and figure out when you're talking or something more complicated... same for their noise suppression since that also works great and is league above WIndow's.
Fair criticism. I try and keep 'em short, but I rarely succeed. I figure it's better to err on the side of over-explaining than under-explanining. Also, a lot of people haven't heard of a noise gate before and so some elaboration is often appreciated.
Dude, everytime you open your mouth hissing comes through. Plus, if a motorbike goes by your house at the same time as you speaking you're fucked. Not a smart software...
> everytime you open your mouth hissing comes through. That's not the noise gate's fault, it's my fault for having a cheap and shitty mic. No amount of noise gate can fix a shit-quality microphone. But a noise gate *can* prevent a shitty mic's hiss from annoying people when you're not speaking. > if a motorbike goes by your house at the same time as you speaking you're fucked. Again, this isn't something that a noise gate claims to fix. If you record where background noise is louder than your voice, no amount of software correction is going to save you.
I have a yeti mic and a headset. I have it setup and its working perfect I just hear my own voice!! My input is my mic and my output is my headset. I hear my voice
Hi SaltyPuglord, this is an awesome and fantastic tutorial. Keep it up, can't wait to see more of your videos. Cheers!
Hey Salty, cheers for the video... It contained just the right amount of information I needed to get my mic sounding fantastic. No amount of video could have told me I'd set my mic up the wrong way though - haha. Thanks again!
ruclips.net/video/sA2R8rLAqLw/видео.html - Another NoiseGator setup video. He shows a few things I don't, but neglects to mention the need for Java.
ruclips.net/video/DudUTHiLze/видео.html - How to setup your cruddy headset to sound not quite so cruddy with VoiceMeeter Banana.
Hi, I hightly appreciate the detailed explanation and I was able to impletement the noise cancellation following the settings shown by you. You got a new subscriber to your channel. Thanks again.
These days, I do most of my noise gate stuff in post-production. I record with the least amount of background noise I can manage, and then use the noise gate feature of my video editing software to cut out as much noise as possible during editing.
Thx for video in 2022 still working
Incidentally VB-Audio who are behind that virtual audio cable is also the dev behind Voicemeeter, Voicemeeter Banana/Potato. So I guess it's just Voicemeeter Banana that has that issue, and probably Potato too since it's even more complex. Voicemeeter itself, however, is less complex than Banana, so one could also try that, if it even has the noise cancellation feature.
These days I tend to do my noise-gating in post. That's really the better way anyway, since I can adjust levels on-the-fly. (I set Shadowplay to record separate game audio and voice audio tracks.)
You still have a airy noise when you talk and you sound like your in a school assembly room ?
The noise gate is exactly what I described: It hits the mute button when the volume level is too low. That's all it is. It's NOT a magic filter that can tell the difference between the sound of a human voice and the sound of my computer's fans.
If you want a magic filter that "knows" the difference between human voice and fan noise, I've been told that NVidia RTX Voice does that. But I haven't tried it myself, so...
appreciate the video but i do hear background noise still. there is a consistent hissing sounded like rain drops.
Hi when i activate noise gate my voice is repeated back to me. I couldnt find any setting to turn off play back devices. but in my sound setting the checkbox is unchecked.
This happens only when i activate noise gate. how to turn it off
thank you, brother!
Kinda wish it had a toggle-to-mute but bound to button on keyboard. Makes things easier.
I cant get it to work. I keep getting an error: noise gator selected line input microphone not available
Helpful, thank you
I have a yeti mic and a headset. I have it setup and its working perfect I just hear my own voice!! My input is my mic and my output is my headset. I hear my voice
ty dear u saved my ass
I have a question , when I use noise gator how can I remove the echo? i mean it repeats what i said I can hear myself on my headset.
@@agmass wow....thank you so much
Use earbuds/headset, because the speaker is too close to the mic so it constantly records your mic so it will echo pretty loud which I had aswell before lol
great video, very helpful!
Hello, I'm using Airdrop but its collecting all the other noise while I make calls from my android. Is there any application to cut down the unwanted noise for Android?
None that I know of. If you find one, come back and let us know about it!
Thanks you very much sir!
NoiseGator doesn't reduce noise at all. It only has a noise gate. Meaning it just cuts your audio entirely until you are talking into your mic. it won't remove noise.
So cutting everything, including the noise, is not cutting noise?
@@SaltyPuglord No. just like removing a window is not “cleaning” a window. The dirt is gone but so is the window.
@@tylerpond1229 Glad to have you on record about that.
Hello and Thank You for taking the time to provide this informative video. However, when I speak into my headset microphone, I hear myself. Can you please tell me what I can do to remove this?
same here/ have you figured it out?
This application does not work anymore, i was using it for the past 2 years and now it wont launch open. Even deleted it and downloaded again. Sad. Could use some help trouble shooting but after a full uninstall and reinstall idk.
I wish I had some useful advice for you. Sadly, I got nothing. I've started doing post-production noise gate on all my videos, which is a lot easier and gives me much finer control over how much background noise I want to cut out. But that's not the kind of noise gating that people who use NoiseGator actually want.
I know that OBS has a real-time noise gate built in, but that thing is awful heavy on the resources, so nobody's going to run it alongside their everyday gaming stuff if they have any choice whatsoever. There are also some commercial software noise gates, but some of them are AI-based (burns your GPU, eats a gig of memory), and others are ridiculously overpriced.
I wish I had time to write my own free and open-source noisegate program ala NoiseGator. It would take some reading of the Windows SDK docs, but I'm pretty sure I could do it. Anyone wanna give me a MacArthur grant so I can have the three months I need to do it? :P
If you need the VB Audio cable www.vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm there. Scroll down till you find the orange download link.
Output cable is not talking to input cable please help.
When I set up VB audio cable, my Output does not respond to anything I'm saying, it just stays at the 0 volume icon while my Blue yeti (which isn't set to default) Picks up the mic just fine...Pls help
There's no way I could possibly even guess what's wrong without being able to see your screen. Sorry.
SaltyPuglord It’s alrighty! I got it all sort out. Good tutorial btw!
@@OfficialAilius what did u do
Mxjia - don’t remember
Does it work for Teams calls? or do you have to do a special set up for it to work with Teams?
It will depend on your team call software. The team call software must be be able to record sound from the output of the virtual cable that is hooked up to the noise gate. If you can configure your team call software to record from the virtual cable output, then the noise gate should work.
Be aware: Some team call software has a noise gate built into it already. So check your team call software to make sure noise reduction of some kind isn't built in.
@@SaltyPuglord thanks! How can I check my teams software?
@@biancagabela_7775 I have no idea. Even if you told me what the software was, I wouldn't know the specifics about that program. If there's an IT guy in your office, you can try asking him. He *might* know... or might not. But that's better than asking me. Because I'm sure that I don't know!
NoiseGator doesn't seem to do anything for me... sometimes it sounds like it's doing something for half a second... then fades back to normal?
Too many possibilities to be sure... The first thing I would check is to make sure your recording software is actually recording the virtual cable output, not the regular mic. Second thing would be to check what your Threshold, Attack time and Release time settings are. Those need to be tuned carefully to get the noise gate to work even halfway decently.
Hi. I want to use NoiseGator and VB Audio Virtual Cable for real-time filtering a phone transmission. So I want to connect the phone via a jack-to-jack to the mic jack socket of the laptop and to listen to the output via the soundblaster attached to the laptop. Will it work? I ask because I didn't succeed. Can you help me please?
In theory it should be possible.
I don't know if my advice will help you or not. But here is my advice:
Step 1) Plug a microphone into the mic jack and see if you can record your own voice. This step is to make sure the mic jack on your computer works.
Step 2) Plug your phone into the mic jack and see if you can record a phone call. This step is to make sure the telephone will work with your computer's mic jack.
Step 3) Plug the microphone back in and make sure it still works. Then install Noisegator and the virtual cables, and configure them. Then try and record your microphone through the noise gate. This step is to make sure the noise gate works.
Step 4) Unplug the microphone. Plug your telephone in. Try and record again. If it works, then you should be recording your telephone through the noise gate.
Good luck!
it does technically do the thing but, it cuts off the first little bit of sound when i talk :\
Lower your attack time and/or threshold. Also reduce noise in the area near the mic. (Your PC's fans might be louder than your voice, causing the noise gate to open even when you're not speaking.)
can anyone help me? noisegator works when i listen to it when unmuted, but not in anything else like, games, discord, and OBS. i put my input as microphone realtek and output as headphones realtek because VBAudio doesnt work for me
How come it's interfering with the sound from videos/movies that I play when I'm using the built in speakers on my laptop? I mean i can hear the conversation clearly but not the background music. Please help
I'm afraid I can't understand what you're asking. Are you playing music out the speakers of your laptop and then expecting the noise gate to subtract that out of your mic?
@SaltyPuglord It says "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0" but I have java on my pc. (EDIT: This has been fixed I asked on another video)
@@_mark_3814 I would guess you have the wrong version of java. If you run a Command Prompt and do "java -version" (no quotes), what does it say?
why does my cable output say output instead of input
I have no idea; it's all confusing as fuck. All the different parts seem to have different ideas about what counts as an input or output.
Hi! I hope you could help me, I can hear myself speaking using noisegator.. how do i get rid of that?
I never had this problem, so I'm not sure what the cure is. If you have "Listen to this Device" checked in any of your "Recording" devices, uncheck that. Otherwise, I've been told that it's probably your sound drivers intentionally playing some of your mic sound back at you. And I don't know how to fix that.
Im having the same problem, did u ever fix it?
@@deaconwoodie6618 late reply but you need to install a virtual audio cable and then set the output to that, then in all of the apps you want to use noise gator in like discord or skype, set the input to that virtual audio cable. there’s a tutorial on this
Please add here where we can download noisegator. I have downloaded one but it won't install.
Here ya go: sourceforge.net/projects/noisegator/files/latest/download
Also added that to the video description.
what is the attack and release exactly?
"Attack" is basically how fast the noise gate opens. At the very beginning of the video, you can hear that the first tiny bit of "Hey" is cut off. The noise gate didn't open fast enough. That would be considered "slow attack". Which I don't like. Attack speed is hard to tune right because you have to strike a balance between background noise volume (which you want the noise gate to cut off) and soft speech (which you want the noise gate to let through).
"Release" is basically how fast the noise gate closes. If the ends of your sentences are getting cut off, the release is too fast. If you hear static after I stop speaking, the release was too slow.
Better noise gates (like the one in OBS) have a higher threshold for attack and a lower one for release. So it takes significantly more volume to open the noise gate, but it stays open even if the next syllable you speak is softer. Noisegator doesn't do this, sadly.
I am sorely tempted to write my own noise gate program (with blackjack, and hookers) but it's a much lower priority than some other work-related things in my life right now. If I ever get around to it, it'll be freeware and I'll post about it here on the channel.
how to unhear yourself? its bothering me.... :( help pls
I never ran into this problem myself, so I don't know how to fix it.
I did hear about other people having it. Some of them had a "Listen to this" setting checked in their Windows audio device settings. Others, it was just part of their sound drivers and there was no way to fix it.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Go to sound recording tab choose your mic then go to listen tab and uncheck your listen to this device,should be work okay
@@Rakkidood where is that tab located?
@@Rakkidood oh i got it. its unticked.
@@marknicholzsimporios5107 Where is the tab located?
Click activate - nothing happens, it does not work at all wtf ..
very helpful..!!
Man the program really sucks lol. I don't know how you have it set up but my just flicks open and closed repeatedly when i'm doing nothing and then cuts off half of what I say when I do talk.
Currently have attack time on 10 and release on 100. I've changed it around quite a bit varying from 5/10 to 100/1000. Quite the terrible program really...
After working with it for a while, I realized that it needs what OBS has: a dual threshold. One threshold to open (set higher) and another to close (set lower, just above the ambient noise level).
I don't want to spoil anything, but... well let's say that someone might be working on a native Windows noise gate with dual thresholds that will be free (libre) when it's done.
Discord's works flawlessly for me interestingly so i'm guessing they likely have that as well or something. Need someone to just rip Discord's out and allow you to use it with any other program. Granted Discord probably uses their servers to analyze it and figure out when you're talking or something more complicated... same for their noise suppression since that also works great and is league above WIndow's.
Hello, can I use this program for live streams or videocall?
If your computer is strong enough to handle both at the same time, yes.
it wont work on the xbox app
This video is useless because you never show the setting listen to in cable output.
???
"quick video"
Fair criticism. I try and keep 'em short, but I rarely succeed. I figure it's better to err on the side of over-explaining than under-explanining. Also, a lot of people haven't heard of a noise gate before and so some elaboration is often appreciated.
Dude, everytime you open your mouth hissing comes through. Plus, if a motorbike goes by your house at the same time as you speaking you're fucked. Not a smart software...
> everytime you open your mouth hissing comes through.
That's not the noise gate's fault, it's my fault for having a cheap and shitty mic. No amount of noise gate can fix a shit-quality microphone.
But a noise gate *can* prevent a shitty mic's hiss from annoying people when you're not speaking.
> if a motorbike goes by your house at the same time as you speaking you're fucked.
Again, this isn't something that a noise gate claims to fix. If you record where background noise is louder than your voice, no amount of software correction is going to save you.
I have a yeti mic and a headset. I have it setup and its working perfect I just hear my own voice!! My input is my mic and my output is my headset. I hear my voice
Had to change the output on noisegator to the new input you downloaded