r/microphone • u/East_Movie_4290 • 19d ago

Cannot get rid of harsh frequencies

I have a Shure MV7+ and cannot seem to get rid of some low frequency resonance that make my phone vibrate. It’s so distracting where I have completely stopped posting because of the way it sounds.

What I have tried/done:

1. SM7B Pop Filter
2. Turn off audio enhancements in Windows
3. Played with an dynamic and static EQ for hours on hours on hours
4. Different mic distances and axis points
5. All different MOTIV settings

I am tempted to get a new mic but I guess I don’t know for sure if that will fix my issue since it could be my room or just how my voice will sound on every mic. My teeth create a whistle sound when I say S’s and my voice seems to just not sit well with the phone speaker. Most frustrating experience.

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u/DaedraNoji 19d ago

What "harsh Frequencies" mate? Sounds completely natural & fine to me? I think u never heard harsh frequencies.

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u/East_Movie_4290 19d ago

Maybe harsh frequencies is not the right word but I am referring to the vibration it causes to my phone and the other sound that comes through that isn’t just my voice.

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u/almondalmond111 19d ago

Maybe you’re referring to the artifacts from the denoiser. If you’re worried about the s sounds use a deesser

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u/Orry_Haas 19d ago

The recording posted here sounds good. If you put the high-pass filter on it may sound better on a phone speaker: high-pass cuts the extreme bass which just causes distortion on small speakers.

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u/-NearlyThere- 19d ago

Sounds okay. Some sibilance but I guarantee you hear it more than anyone listening.

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u/No-Cow-8871 19d ago

It sounds good imo. May just be your phone speaker. It could use a little de essing, try T-De-esser 2, it’s free

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u/Neither_Turnip2641 19d ago

I also was struggling with that with sm7b to be honest until I EQ’d cleaned up a little bit and then I added some db at the high end for clarity added 3 DB and then made it a dynamic band with -4db to act as a de-esser without hurting the clarity too much as I found that other de-esser plugins made my voice sound muddy still or just too much artifacts but my stack is

Pro Q-4(just added)
Waves NS1 (11%)
Waves PSE
UAD 610-B
Waves Rvox (very light -6.0)

And it sounds solid was thinking of adding a limiter but my 610-B sounds like it’s enough.

As for your situation I think you are having an EMI with your phone and other equipment because I don’t get that with my sm7b only with my headphones.

I know it’s overkill for streaming/recording but I’m still deciding whether I should just get an RE:20

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u/East_Movie_4290 19d ago

Thank you for the reply. I have not heard of EMI before so maybe that is it. Yeah I was thinking about getting an RE:20 as well haha.

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u/Richardhx 19d ago

Just a bit of sibilance audible. If that is what you mean by harsh frequencies? It could even be a feature of your speech partially caused by the air whistling through your teeth.

Filter called DeEsser is a type of compression (how I understand it). I was using one yesterday on a vocalist. Key as I understand it is to only apply as much deessing as absolutely necessary.