I started setting up OBS on Mac OS.

I discovered that the macOS Screen Capture option actually has a number of useful settings that can help us limit visibility, so it doesn’t have to cast the entire screen.

1. We can choose Display Capture to grab the whole screen
2. Window Capture to get a specific window or
3. Application Capture to get all windows of the selected application

If you can’t find your app make sure to check the box that says Show fullscreen and hidden windows / applications:

If you tap the … button on the Audio Mixer channel for your microphone you’ll find the Filters option that will give you access to software VSTs and other audio filters:

Here we can set up our audio filters for Noise Suppression, Noise Gate, Compression and EQ. I used the Marvel GEQ vst for my EQ. I’m pretty sure apple ships with a decent Audio Unit (AU) graphical EQ but it wasn’t coming up, so make sure to download the VST specifically.

I added some quick EQ by cutting out bands that either had no sound on them or reduced the clarity of my voice and ended up with something like this, although I didn’t spend much time on it:

I discovered the EQ from a random YouTube video on Mac OBS Studio, which is actually where I found all of these options :)