What can I do to make airy sounds and plosives come through cleaner on my mic?

[stray cosmos]

I've been trying to do a fast inward drag pattern that I think helium does idk, but I can't figure out a way to make it come through clean on my mic.

Currently all I have on my FL studio is a limiter bc it's the only thing I understand, but I'm wondering if there's any other effects I can use.

Is there a specific way to hold my microphone that might help?

Is there a way I can make the sounds themsevles cleaner before it even hits the mic?

Using an SM58

Attached is the pattern slowly and quickly so you can see where the issue comes from:

I probably should've asked those questions in the reverse order because I kinda relying on EQ bc I need to focus on improving atm, my priority is

1 Changing my technique to make it sound cleaner
2 Changing the way I hold the mic
3 Fl studio save me

[odd oracle]

theres essentially 2 ways you can hold a dynamic mic like sm58 that will produce good results

1. Have the mic a bit further away and make sure the air isnt going directly to the mic, put high gain on the audio interface
2. Have the mic as close as possible to your mouth like you would in a live event, low gain. Its not very comfortable at the start and a lot of people make the mistake of keeping it further away than they should

Your inward drags sound good but I would probably work on the kick and snare to make them pop a bit more

On Fl studio you can play around with putting Maximus and then trying the different presets on your mic, multiband compression gets really good results for beatbox

[verbal halo]

how does multiband compression work?

[odd oracle]

its a combination of compression and EQ. Essentially, it allows you to compress different frequency ranges individually, so you can for example compress 20hz-100hz range independently and it wont affect anything else

its perfect for beatbox because of the range of different sounds that you have and all of them occupy their unique place in the frequency range, so you can tailor a multiband compression for your own style

its more rare to use in traditional music production because most of the time you will have access to all individual sounds as their own tracks, but in beatboxing thats not possible so mb compression is a great tool

[gloomy token]

Also side note: adding just a TINY TINY bit of distortion can help make your sounds pop a bit more

But dont use too much