Sound familiar?
Your chat keeps saying it can’t hear you, then that you’re too loud.
Quiet, then too loud
Normal talking is hard to hear, but every shout sends viewers for the volume.
Distorted shouting
Your loudest moments crackle or clip on stream.
Viewers complaining
People mention your sound in chat more than your content.
How I fix it
A live remote session. You stay at your desk, and I work on your computer with you.
I call you on WhatsApp
I connect and listen
We level your voice
A real fix
A YouTube streamer whose viewers kept complaining about his volume.
The problem
Mark streams live slot gameplay on YouTube. His audience complained about his volume and sound quality, and hours of online tutorials hadn’t fixed it.
What I did
- Guided him on mic position, distance and polar pattern before touching any software.
- Added a compressor in OBS to bring up his overall level and keep it steady, even when he spoke softly.
- Added a limiter so excited shouts couldn’t clip, then tested from whispers to shouts.
The result
Result: his volume problems were resolved in a 60-minute session. On his next stream he told viewers: “I have new sound.”
What it costs
No packages to decode, no upsells. Pick the one that fits and book it.
Diagnosis
Free
Send me your audio clips. I’ll listen properly and tell you what’s wrong and how I’d fix it — back with you by the next working day, UK hours.
Send me your audioLive Diagnostic
£90
A focused, one-hour, screen-shared session to find and kill a specific problem. Mic suddenly not recording, distortion out of nowhere, routing that’s blocking your chat, software that won’t behave. Most issues are gone inside the session.
Book a Live DiagnosticFull Studio Setup
£180
Around two hours. I take control and configure your whole rig from scratch — hardware and software, gain staging, mic positioning, routing, the lot. For new gear, a new room, or a setup that’s never quite worked properly. You end up with a system that just runs.
Book a Full Studio SetupPriced in GBP. International clients welcome — your bank converts at checkout.
Before you book
The questions streamers ask me most.
Can’t I just turn the fader down?
That fixes the loud moments and makes the quiet ones worse. A compressor narrows the gap between them, so you can sit at one level for the whole stream.
Will a compressor make me sound squashed?
Not when it’s set for your voice. I set it while you talk and shout, and stop as soon as you sound even and natural.
What about game and music levels?
We can balance them against your voice once it’s steady. Routing game audio into OBS as part of a Full Studio Setup is an add-on, quoted separately.
Takes less than 2 minutes.
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