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Re the blanket, I did think of trying something like that but as I'm rehearsing in my spare room and probably won't be streaming from there, it might be a bit futile although I'd at least know if it worked in principle. I can't leave my keyboard and stand and cables etc in the living room until the day unfortunately as that's the only room we have free at the moment due to working from home.
Re the mic placement, cheers Drew for the detail. The mic is a TC Helicon Mp-75. I think the problem is that there's only so many places I could put the mic and still be able to sing into it whilst playing. I've no idea what the dust cap is, so I've not deliberately messed with it but knowing my luck it probably is faulty or something.
The mic pattern is supposedly super cardioid which seems to have a bit at the back as well, not sure why that would ever be a helpful thing but I'm fairly stupid about these things so I'm likely wrong.
I might try and lower the keyboard down but again there's only so far I can do that and still be able to reach it (without looking like I'm playing something at knee level)
Hopefully I get laryngitis so I can pull out of doing this
https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/SubZero-DB30-Dynamic-Podcast-Studio-Microphone/3EMZ
I would say that the noise certainly isn't enough to spoil the performance, that was really nice!
Before spending money though, if you have the gain cranked on the mic and you are singing away from it that won't help, if that's the case turn the mic down and get right on top of it
The noise on that recording i shared above isn't as bad as it currently is, plus the "bad" noises seem to get emphasized even more so on the Zoom streaming when I tried that last night.
I am genuinely considering pre-recording my piano and miming to it whilst singing haha without actually pressing the keys! Going to mess about with camera angles to see if it can be done.
I am pretty close into it already, but the gain needs to be up otherwise I'm too quiet. I'm a very quiet singer. I've tried turning the Voicelive gain down and the Interface gain up, and vice versa, but still causes the same. I even tried the mic straight into the interface and it sounded terrible and still had the same problem with the keys if I recall correctly.
I did think about trying it with a mixer, but the mixers I have don't have XLR output, and i'm not sure if the instrument input of my Fast Track would handle the output of the mixer via jack cable. Only one way to find out I suppose
But what is really weird, I was fiddling with the little gain slider thing on the side of the Voicelive unit, and I could hear the noise of my fingers hitting the unit through the headphones. I've unplugged the mic input completely (in case it was the mic or cable) and it still picks up noise through the case of the Voicelive.
How the hell is this possible? If i tap the outside of the unit with my nails I can hear it in the headphones. How does that work?
Edit, no just as bad on a pile of jumpers
EDIT #2 - I'm an effing numbskull. It's something called "Room sense" which is what is used to help pickup what key you're playing in for harmonies and pitch stuff etc. Found eventually a way to turn it down to zero and that problem has gone.
Seriously I don't know how I get dressed by myself in a morning sometimes, thick as pig proverbial
Put the keyboard as much as possible in the reject zone fo the mic then get your mouth almost touching the dyanmic and sing a bit louder and you should be fine.
I can't sing much louder as my throat dies very quickly as it is, let alone if I sing louder. I've a pretty quiet voice.
It's still very quiet going into the computer but I think I have no choice but to have the gain as it is with the clunking, seems there's nothing I can do.
It has at least taught me that performing on keys and vocals is not an option going forwards
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Either that or just live with it, the Chris Cornell tribute you liked to above, sounds great, I wouldn't worry too much
Audio example now included.
Also very annoying high pitched interference type noise going on as well
Waste of time this is
If the piano and vocal microphone signals will be passing through DAW software, there should be some means of fixing the levels and minimising the key noise.