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yeah the goxlr mini turns on phantom power in the app if i have to set it as a condenser mic instead of dynamic.
and the pre-amp will pick it up but i have to have the gain up near full to get the proper level I want and it just gets too noisy which means gating which then cuts out because i don't have enough wiggle room in the gain. hopefully a smidge more clean gain from the fethead sorts it.
the xlr mini appealed as it has the faders so I can change levels without looking at my pc. coupled with the stream deck and some canny macro keys I'm hoping I wont have to touch my keyboard while recording.
I'm actually not hating win10 pro either. feels very much like old style regular windows (xp style) than the 7/8 abominations. there's definitely some bootcamp related quirks lurking around than I am desperately hoping wont fuck this whole thing up.
At the very least I think my hardware setup is solid enough it will last a long time, so replacing the mbp with a dedicated streaming machine if warranted further down the line would be very easy to do.
I'm definitely going to be streaming to myself 99.9% of the time though but if it keeps me occupied I dont really mind.
HatBeard-
I can heartily recommend Reaper.
Reaper took my audio, which also was high gain and noisy, and with a few plugins obliterated the noise, made my voice sound cleaner, rounder, fuller, and does automatic volume adjustments so I never care about anything.
Feedback from others is that I now sound clear, clean, loud (in terms of relative volume at their end), full, "like a professional voice over or radio DJ".
But it took running the audio through Reaper to achieve that.
Velocio
Welcome to my world... except I did it with Windows and a desktop PC.
Fetheads raise a "this signal is so low you have nothing that can pick it up" into a "this signal can now be picked up"... but actually your audio interface still needs to add gain, and I additionally use Reaper as a DAW to receive the signal from the audio interface and clean it and add even more gain.
Wait... you have turned on the phantom power on the goxlr right?
https://www.thomann.de/gb/tc_helicon_go_xlr_mini.htm Phantom power to +24v
That is what powers the fethead to be an amplifier for the mix. But yeah... I see it's a software switch in the goxlr.
I'd gone for this... more basic, but also everything is just within the audio interface https://www.thomann.de/gb/ssl_2.htm?ref=search_rslt_ssl%202_481700_0_0 as in, the 48v phantom power is a button and no app is needed.
Mine's also been an epic project... but I switched to Windows for my desktop as Linux failed with the Elgato Camlink very early in this experiment.
I since discovered that everything wants Windows. The entire streaming, Twitch, and audio and video production worlds must be Windows. Even things like the audio interface wanted Windows (though also claimed Mac support).
My project was smooth running as soon as I embraced Windows. FML.