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microphone pass-through sounds terrible
Enhancement
Microphone pass-through sounds terrible.
What did you do?
Setup: 2 PS 2 microphones.
Enable microphone pass-through.
Sing.
Now the voice is clipped. The quality is comparable to a very bad voice call.
To test micrphones I made a recording with another program and the quality was very good. So no microphone defects.
It sounds like performous gets overburden by the microphone pass-through option.
Output of performous --version:
Performous 1.1+
What is your environment & configuration?
I tried on Manjaro (Linux), Windows 7
PS2 Microphones
PS2 microphones have very bad sound quality to start with, but it is also very likely that Performous pass-through is buggy. It is actually really difficult to pass audio from one sound device to another. Passing from input to output of the same audio device is much easier.
Any devs up for investigating this?
I've used the singstar mics many times before and they were pretty decent. Eventually I bought some Shure mic clones and soldered a couple of XLR to 3.5mm mono cables and use that with the Singstar adapter; it sounds pretty good so 🤷🏼♂️
One thing I have noticed though is that they are VERY loud (I use mac but it may be a universal thing) so I have to use them with volumes around the 20% mark. Might want to give that a try.
There's an alternative, buy a mixing panel with direct outputs. Attach your mics to them.
Then performous will have a feed from the mixer and within performous you don't use the passthrough method.
The mixer also outputs to decent speakers then you have you're karaoke setup :)
It's better explained over here: https://github.com/performous/performous/wiki/Audio-equipment-guide
As for the pass-through functionality.. i bet performous is the one screwing up on this. I don't think it's going to be picked up very soon though..
@Lord-Kamina the loudiness from ps2 singstar mics are universal here it is the same. It just picks up anything :man_shrugging:
Changed status from Bug to Enhancement
Many mixers also come with USB input which avoids the HDMI2AV box and the horrors of composite video which I presume that one video cable to the TV is. Unfortunately the cheap mixers cannot capture individual mics (sub-$400 devices only record main mix in stereo), so you still need cables from mic pre-outs to laptop mic in. And you need some device in your AV stack that can combine HDMI video from your laptop with analog audio from the mixer, or don't take the audio to your TV at all but use external speakers instead.
sub-$400 devices only record main mix in stereo
Allen & Heath ZEDi-10FX is well below $400 mark and yet it has an USB stereo input and 4x USB output (for 4 XLR mics)
Many mixers also come with USB input which avoids the HDMI2AV box and the horrors of composite video which I presume that one video cable to the TV is.
can be solved by a cheap HDMI splitter
It is not the mic quality. During experimenting with real guitars I noticed very bad passthrough too. I will debug that in the next weeks. (And assigned the issue to me)
