1) Stop being so FUCKING cute for FIVE MINUTES. 2) Download and install VAC http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8442900/Virtual_Audio_Cable_4.12_Full 3) Go to the Virtual Audio Cable folder and open "Control Panel" aka vcctlpan.exe. Make sure your shit looks like this: http://puu.sh/6jZWr.png A computer restart might be necessary at this point. I just end task explorer.exe and then run it again. 4) Download and install FL. Make sure you install the ASIO4ALL drivers if given the option. It is possible to install them later if there's a problem. http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6834816/FruityLoops_Studio_10.0.9_Producer_Edition_Final 5) Download and install Fabfilter pro Q http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5185364/FabFilter.Pro-Q.VST.RTAS.v1.0.1.6-AiR 6) Run FL, open a new project. Options > Audio settings. Set the audio device to ASIO4ALL (v2 or whatever). Close the settings. 7) You should have an ASIO4ALL program running now, open the window and you should see a device list on the left. Expand the "Virtual Audio Cable" tree until you see "Out". You want "Out" to have a blue arrow pointing to it. If it doesn't have one, click the box next to it. Now find your mic in the device list and make sure it, too, has a blue arrow. 8) Go back to FL and press F9 to open the Mixer. You should see a row of inserts with faders. The far left is your master bus, next to that is insert 1. Click insert 1. On the far right just below the top you should see "IN" and a drop down. Click the drop down and select your microphone. On the bottom is "OUT", select "Virtual Cable 1". You might have duplicates; you should have one that says something like "Virtual Cable 1 1 - Virtual Cable 1 2", you want that. (http://puu.sh/6k2u0.png) 9) In your Virtual Audio Cable folder, run audio repeater (MME) aka audiorepeater.exe (not KS). Set "Wave in" to "Line 1", and "Wave out" to your headphones. Set the total buffer to, like, 50 or 100 or something, and then press Start. You should now hear your mic (after routing through FL). This will allow you to hear the adjustments you make in FL. You can set the total buffer to something like 5000 if you want a large enough delay to hear it without your irl voice getting in the way. (http://puu.sh/6k2cJ.png) 10) Go back to the FL mixer. Under "IN" are your plugins. Click the first one's arrow and select Fruity Limiter. (http://puu.sh/6k2N4.jpg) You can click "Fruity Limiter" once it's chosen to open or close the plugin window. On the right under "noise gate", turn "gain" all the way down, and then slowly turn "thres" up until you stop hearing your mic. This is a noise gate -- it basically mutes the insert unless it picks up volume above its threshold. If you set the threshold too low, the noise gate will turn off and on from background noise (which is annoying); if it's too high, it will cut off parts of you talking (also annoying). (http://puu.sh/6k3f5.jpg) You can also mess with the gain and ceiling under "loudness". If you turn the gain all the way up and then turn the ceiling down somewhat, you will give your mic compression which can sound good, but I wouldn't bother trying until after doing EQ. 11) In the second plugin spot, click the arrow and select "More...". Press "Refresh" at the bottom, and then scroll down until you find FabFilter Pro-Q under VST3 plugins, click the box so there's an F in there. Close that box and then click the arrow again and pick FabFilter Pro-Q. In the plugin window, you should see "Analyzer" at the bottom, click that and select post-EQ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNYBbPAvKE This part is mostly an art and it will vary for every voice/instrument. With an instrument, I like to have a recording playing repeatedly and drag a curve way up (like 12db) and turn up the Q (making it affect a smaller frequency range), and drag that around until I find really resonant, annoying sounds, then I cut them. This is what my guitar preset looks like for real time playing: http://puu.sh/6k4aR.png. If I'm doing post production, I make a new one every time because it varies depending on song somewhat. For voices, I do pretty much the same thing but end up cutting wider sections of mids and boosting lows and highs: http://puu.sh/6k45Q.png. I cut the mids because mids sound like shit (actually when you have too much in the mids they call it "muddy", becuase that's how it sounds). I boost the highs because it increases clarity, but I don't boost too high frequencies because you get more background whitenoise. I boost the lows because it makes me sound sexy. You will want to start from scratch with the EQ and mess around until you have something that sounds good to you. If you can't tell if your EQ is making a difference, click this button http://puu.sh/6k4FQ.png to turn off the EQ temporarily and see. 12) Add another plugin, this time Maximus. This is a more advanced compression plugin, but I mostly just use presets. The "Max Loudness"s are usually the best for me. This should give your voice more clarity. You don't want either of these meters (http://puu.sh/6k5I2.jpg) getting above "0" (http://puu.sh/6k5JS.png). Use the fader (http://puu.sh/6k5L5.png) to keep it down, or you'll get distortion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4UFEZFRpg&t=55s) 13) When your shit sounds good to you, turn off the audio repeater and open mumble. Go to settings and change your Device to "Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)". Now, go to configure > audio wizard, and press next once. If everything is working properly, you should be able to hear your mic. This means it's working on mumble and everything is good. Some other stuff: -The closer the mic is to your face, the better it's going to sound, by far. If you're using open ear headphones, you might get feedback, but that won't happen when you aren't hearing your own mic (obviously). -Sometimes things break. You might have to close anything using VAC, open the VAC control panel, and hit "restart" on the top left to restart the driver. Sometimes I have to endtask explorer.exe and then run explorer.exe to make stuff work. Audio is THE most frustrating thing to deal with as far as computers go, in my experience. Sometimes shit just doesn't work for no apparent reason, but I rarely have problems with my current set up.