That way when listened at normal volume levels the keyboard sounds would very low level background chatter. But filtering out the typing while speaking would take quite a bit of effort and could also result in taking away sound that you want to hear that is part of your voice.įor me the best solution would be to make sure that your voice is much louder then the keyboard. Getting rid of typing noise seems straight forward if you are either typing OR talking. I also have a Blue Snowball Mic and a keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches. This only works if the keyboard frequency band is relatively well-contained - if you zero out too much bandwidth, you'll significantly affect the sound of your voice going through the same filter. Then, you could run your signal through a filter or EQ that would 'zero out' those frequencies. You might consider recording the sounds that your keyboard makes, and running an FFT to determine which frequencies it is loudest at. It's not a filter.īUT, let's talk about filters! In my experience with MX Blue keyswitches, the sound they make tends to be very high in pitch. The caveat to this is that, first, your level of speech must be ABOVE that of your keyboard, and second, when your mic is on because you're speaking into it, it's still going to pick up the sound of the keyboard if you happen to be typing at the same time.

You can read the Wikipedia article, but it basically kills the signal until the input is above a certain threshold, with some other parameters for response time. Obviously I don't use a keyboard at all when I'm recording something important.) That said, the answer to your question is yes, you would use something called a noise gate on your input. I love my mechanical keyboards, but I use MX Browns any time there's going to be a mic in use (like for videoconferencing. Aren't Cherry MX Blues practically designed to be loud? I heard once that DasKeyboard used to offer ear plugs as an accessory (as a joke).

Blue yeti mic not picking up sound