Microphone picking up a lot of background noise

[Arcapse]

I recently purchased a Blue Snowball iCE, and I recently discovered it is horrible paired with a mechanical keyboard, as it generates a lot of noise, it also picks up conversations in a completely different room. Does anyone know a program which can cancel out this or some Win8 settings I have missed?

[notkip]

this is why i generally avoid desktop microphones as they generally pick up keystrokes quite well unless you have an unidirectional microphone on a shock mount. i have not software to advise you with but i am interested to see if there's anything out there as this could help my not want to kill my friend whenever we voice chat

[Semper]

Some VoIP programs have built in noise cancelling features.

I know Mumble does, Skype does, however, it's so incredibly basic, it's basically useless. Other than that, your best bet is going to be to try and noise dampen the room that it's in.

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Some VoIP programs have built in noise cancelling features.

I know Mumble does, Skype does, however, it's so incredibly basic, it's basically useless. Other than that, your best bet is going to be to try and noise dampen the room that it's in.

skype is shit though, if there's no talking it progressively gets more and more sensitive and creates white noise and picks up every little thing that it can find even if the microphone normally wouldn't pick it up

[TheProfosist]

Get it closer to you. Lower its volume and use push to talk or voice activation.

And no there aren't settings like that on windows and even I'd there were it likely wouldn't cancel out all that ambient noise your talking about.

[Arcapse]

Get it closer to you. Lower its volume and use push to talk or voice activation.

And no there aren't settings like that on windows and even I'd there were it likely wouldn't cancel out all that ambient noise your talking about.

I've already moved it to the closest possibly location without blocking my view of my monitor or causing other complications.

[Semper]

skype is shit though, if there's no talking it progressively gets more and more sensitive and creates white noise and picks up every little thing that it can find even if the microphone normally wouldn't pick it up

This is why I only use Skype if i absolutely have to. It all depends on what VoIP you're using. It's been so long since i've used Ventrilo, thigns have likely changed since then, so I don't know about that. I Know Mumble's speech recognition/ noise canceling  tools are fairly robust, but it's not perfect.

I have no experience with TeamSpeak.

Your best bet will be to fiddle around with the tools available to you in your VoIP of choice, and if all else faisl, noise dampen the room that you are in. Pillows and blankets get the job done reasonably well on the cheap.