I believe it was DrO who said somewhere that you might get better results if you increase the bitrate of the live stream. (i.e: if your stream is 128kbps then set your live encoder to broadcast at 192kbps - sc_trans will still re-encode it to 128kbps, but since it will receive a better audio to work with, at 192kbps, it might sound better after re-encoding it at 128kbps)