If you ever wanted to know how to set up OBS for your HyperX Cloud Alpha S headset, this is the article for you! I've owned my HyperX Cloud Alpha S for over a year now and use it daily to stream with OBS.

Once you have OBS installed and you have your HyperX Cloud Alpha S headset set as the default microphone, the next step is setting up filters in OBS. Filters are a very powerful tool provided by OBS, that'll make your microphone sound so much better then it did before.

To do this you'll locate your audio mixer, once you've located that you'll click the 3 dots next to your mic input to bring up a drop down menu. In the drop down menu you'll find the filters option. go ahead and give that a click to bring up the filters window.

Inside the filters window is where you'll set up and adjust any settings for the filters you choose. We personally use two filters, which are the compressor and the noise suppression filter. The compressor helps reduce any extremely loud sounds like yelling, to prevent any distortion or uncomfortable noise levels. While the noise suppression works at removing background noise such as fans or keyboards sounds. These two filters work great together and will improve the sound quality for your viewers immensely.

To add your first filter you'll locate the plus symbol in the bottom left hand corner of the filters windows. Clicking on any of the filter options will add that filter to your current audio filters list and you'll be able to adjust the filter settings within the filters window.

The settings we use for the Compressor are:

Ratio (amount of compression to apply) 7.00:1

Threshold (level compression begins) -14.20 dB

Attack (how quickly compression is applied) 5 ms

Release (how long compression lasts) 50 ms

Output Gain (brings avg volume level up or down) -2.00 dB

The settings we use for Noise Suppression:

RNNoise (Good quality, more CPU usage)

Hope this guide helps you better understand the benefits from OBS filters and setup OBS settings for your own microphone!