Frankmatsch
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Hello everyone, I am getting a bit frustrated with my life at the moment because of my keyboard being very loud. I am using the blue bluebird to record my voice for YouTube gaming videos. The microphone is on a table stand which is not attached to the table the keyboard is on, has a second pop filter and goes into the focusrite scarlett 2i2 - Scarlett 2i2 | Focusrite. I have tried eating the mic but usually I am like 20cm (8inches) away from it. Ideally I want the clicks to not be hear able. I know I can cut them out, use noise gates and stuff like that but I am never happy with the result. I tried positioning the keyboard behind the mic and played around with different microphone positions, gain settings and all of that. I also put a cardboard box above the keyboard with like 5 towels on top and even that just muffled the strokes of the keyboard but did not eliminate them. What I want is to be able to play whatever game (so smashing my keys) and not hear the clicks at all - let´s just say I would mute the game sound. I know a dynamic mic might be better for me but I am sure I can make it work with the bluebird just have to optimize some stuff. The keyboard I am using is (funny huh) the matias quiet pro - the world´s quietest mechanic keyboard - Matias Quiet Pro Keyboard for PC... I would like to keep using a mechanical keyboard (even though that is my problem) because I enjoy gaming with it. Would greatly appreciate help on how to deal with this issue. As of right now I am just manually cutting clicks out and deleting all silence, which works but is very time consuming. I am aware that I could use a noise gate but that does not fix that you can hear my keyboard during me talking. Couple questions I have: I reduced the gain to try to lower the sensitivity of the microphone. Afterwards in Audacity I would use Amplify and it would be like +30db and the clicks would be as loud as with higher gain and Amplify +15db. I know gain does not equal sensitivity but is there a difference of the two ways? Also would me upgrading to the Cherry MX Silent help my problem- STRAFE RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — Cherry MX Silent. I feel like that the way to tackle this problem is probably a mix of somehow lowering the volume of the clicks (towels, quieter keyboard etc.) and some effects during editing. I do not really know a lot about audio (mostly just reading and trying to learn that way) so some tips on what to do during post production would be amazing. I usually use Audacity to record my voice and for some basic stuff. Does this make sense? 1. Amplify -> 2. EQ -> 3. Compressor -> 4. Noise Reduction. Afterwards I drop the file into Izotope RX 5 and just let that remove the rest of the noise/hum + de-click and gain +2b. I also own Adobe Audition. Hopefully my English was good enough to explain my issue (I am from Germany) and I gave you enough information to help me out. I have spend a lot of money on trying to have "good audio" and as of right now I am not satisfied. I am willing to buy a new keyboard (could spend like 300+) maybe a non mechanical one if you feel like that would fix everything. If so any suggestions? Also since this might be tough to explain and time consuming for everybody, I would not mind discussing this on Skype if you feel like you know how to help me out. Thank you for taking time out of your day to help a random guy out, appreciate it! 
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