Yukihana Lamy Streams From Echoing New Room, Says Soundproofing Work Is Still to Come

HOLOLIVE — Yukihana Lamy of hololive’s fifth generation (holoFive) opened a late-night chat stream, a *zatsudan*, by explaining why her sound was off: she has moved into a smaller home and set up her streaming room there without soundproofing, and her voice now echoes badly. She said a soundproofing contractor has visited and agreed on a plan, but the work has not started. Until it does, she is using stopgaps, including absorbing panels around the microphone and a sound-dampening curtain on the wall behind her, with more panels planned for the side walls.

The echo has cut into her other work, she said. After she sent a sample of her voice to her management, she was told it was close to unusable, so she has booked a studio to record voice items for submission for the time being. Small tasks she would normally handle from home are also piling up. “I’m under a lot of stress right now. It’s no joke,” she said.

“I’m under a lot of stress right now. It’s no joke.” — Yukihana Lamy, on her streaming setup

She also said her throat has been in poor shape for about a month, leaving her voice hoarse and hard to push out. A well-known specialist clinic found her vocal cords slightly swollen but with no nodules or growths, she said, and traced the trouble to her nose, where she was told she has about three conditions. She is now taking four kinds of medicine plus a herbal remedy and plans to return in about 10 days for a recheck. She said relying on over-the-counter drugs had made things worse, and she is considering another allergy test. Around the 14-minute mark the stream itself began to stutter, dropping out and coming back, and she said she would restart it if it did not settle. It recovered, and chat cheered the platform on.

Her cat Mii-sha, she said, has had a hard time since the move. After a stay at a pet hotel during the relocation, the cat was stressed by the new house and has followed her from room to room. She said cats can take two weeks or longer to settle. She described a recent overnight outing with fellow members of her fan group, saying details would come later, and said she has been eating heartily as the weather turned cold.

Looking ahead, Lamy said she would join a finger-wrestling tournament hosted by Okayu the following evening, playing from Nene’s home because of her audio. She also said that when she gets back from the Wachagaku event on the 14th, which she said runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., she plans a countdown stream to her Nov. 15 birthday, with 11:30 p.m. as a target. A birthday edition of the Yukiusagi sake is due in December. She ended by saying she had bought a Zelda game for her Switch but would wait until the soundproofing was done, and that she would try buying an electric ocarina controller.

The stream drew 122 Super Chats and Stickers.