Hey! Welcome to Noisewize.

It sets up your OBS audio so your mic sounds good and your music sits right under your voice. Then it gets out of the way!

Set it up once. Pick a format. Go live!

Noisewize measures your mic and your music, sets OBS's own built-in filters, then checks the result. Once that's done, you can close it. Nothing of ours runs while you're live.

What you need

A Windows PCTested on Windows 11.
OBS StudioOpen, and not live or recording while you set up.
Your mic in OBSThe one your stream already uses.
HeadphonesSpeakers work too. Headphones work best.
A songFrom Spotify or wherever you play music on stream.
5 minutesSetup itself takes about 2.
1

Open it

  1. Download Noisewize.exe and save it somewhere easy, like your Desktop.
  2. Double-click it.The first time, Windows might show a blue "Windows protected your PC" box. Noisewize is new and isn't signed yet, that's all.
  3. Click More info, then Run anyway.
  4. Give it about 10 seconds the first time.You'll see the Noisewize window with a status pill at the top.
2

Connect OBS

Noisewize talks to OBS through OBS's own WebSocket server. If the pill at the top says OBS connected, skip ahead! If it asks you to turn on a setting, do this once:

  1. In OBS, open Tools > WebSocket Server Settings.
  2. Tick Enable WebSocket server.
  3. Click OK.
  4. Back in Noisewize, hit Try again.The pill turns green: "OBS connected".
Noisewize's 'OBS needs one setting turned on' screen with the four steps and a Try again button. Noisewize's 'OBS needs one setting turned on' screen with the four steps and a Try again button.
What you'll see if the WebSocket server is off.
3

Run setup (about 2 minutes)

  1. Click Setup on the left.
  2. Name the profile after how you listen, like Headphones or Speakers.One profile per listening setup. You can have both.
  3. Pick Your mic and Your music.Playing from Spotify? Pick Desktop Audio. (See Game audio for what that means.)
  4. Pick a starting format. Just chatting is a good first pick.
  5. Click Start setup and follow the cards.
Play your music at the volume you ACTUALLY stream at. Not full blast!

Noisewize measures the music the way you really play it. Change it a lot later? Run setup again.

What happens

Each step starts with a card. Read it, hit Next, and nothing records until you see Get ready. Then just follow the big colored panel:

Get readyA few seconds' heads-up.
Stay quietNot a sound for 5 seconds.
Read the line now!Your normal stream voice.
Keep stillChirps are playing.
  1. Mic & room: music paused. Stay quiet, then read the line on screen.
  2. Filters: it sets your filters, then you do it again so it can check them.
  3. Singer delay: hold your RIGHT earcup against your mic and keep still while chirps play. On speakers, leave them as they are.
  4. Music: headphones back on, start a song at your stream volume, let it get past the intro, then read the line over it.
Setup step 3 of 4: hold the right earcup against your mic and keep still for about 15 seconds. Setup step 3 of 4: hold the right earcup against your mic and keep still for about 15 seconds.
Step 3, the earcup step.

When it's done you get a results page, and your profile is saved. See Reading your results for what each row means.

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What about my game audio?

Noisewize works on two things: your mic and your music. It puts its filters on whatever source you pick as "Your music": the music level, the leveler that evens out songs, the dip when you talk, and in Singing, the music delay.

Most people play Spotify through Desktop Audio, and their game comes through Desktop Audio too (plus browser sounds and alerts). If that's you, your game gets the same level, dips and leveling as your music. That's fine for most streams! In Singing, the game gets the delay too.

Want only the music touched? Give your music its own source in OBS and pick that one as "Your music" in Setup. DJ apps usually have their own source already. Noisewize shows this same note in the app when your music is on Desktop Audio.

4

Pick a format

Formats switch your sound instantly, with no recording. Click a card and it's on.

The Formats screen with format cards and an On now sticker on the active one. The Formats screen with format cards and an On now sticker on the active one.
The "On now" sticker shows what's active.
5

Quick check and Fix it

  1. Play a song at your stream volume.
  2. On Formats, click Start quick check.Get ready, stay quiet, then read the line over the song. One take, about 16 seconds.
  3. If something's off, hit Fix it.It tells you exactly what it changed, like "Turned the music down 4.4 dB."
  4. Run Quick check once more to be sure.

Reading your results

On targetAll goodNothing to do.
Fix it handles thisHit Fix itA bit off, and Noisewize adjusts it for you.
Check againRun it againThat take was off (singing, shouting, a swallow). Nothing's wrong.
Needs youRareOnly when Noisewize can't do it on its own. The row says what to try.
A Quick check result with a Check again row, a Fix it handles this row and an On target row. A Quick check result with a Check again row, a Fix it handles this row and an On target row.
Every row says who handles it.

No need to touch your OBS settings or sliders. Noisewize sets them for you. If something sounds off, run Quick check instead.

6

For singers

When you sing along, your voice reaches the stream a little later than the music. Bluetooth headphones make the gap bigger. Noisewize measures that gap during setup (the earcup step), and the Singing format delays the music by exactly that much, so viewers hear you right on the beat.

  1. Run setup with the headphones you sing in.
  2. On Formats, pick Singing.That's it. The delay is on.
  3. Switched headphones? Make a second profile for them, since each pair has its own delay.

If your game is on the same source as your music, it gets the delay too. Want to measure the delay on its own? It's under Advanced > Singer sync.

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Snags and quick fixes

OBS isn't open

Open OBS first, then hit Try again.

You're live. Tests are off until you stop.

On purpose, so nothing reaches your stream. You can still switch formats while live.

OBS is already recording.

Stop your OBS recording, then try again. Noisewize records its own short takes.

Couldn't hear you over the music.

Read at your normal stream voice, or turn the music down a bit.

A sound got in while you were quiet

Even a swallow counts! Run it again and keep still.

Your mic changed since this profile was made.

New mic or a different USB port? Hit Run setup again.

Want to start over? Run setup again with the same profile name and it replaces the old one. Noisewize keeps your profiles in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Noisewize.

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