Active Monitoring from Scarlett is heard by OBS

Wolfcaster

New Member
Hello folks,

i am brand-new into OBS and I hope someone can help me here, even though it might be no specific OBS problem. I switched to OBS to have an easy way to record guitar/singing videos to exchange them with my online teacher and bandmates. First I used Screenium wich was expensive and did not work well, in between I simply recorded with QuickTime an matched it with audio from Garage Band in daVinci and than I discovered that OBS is perfect for my case, because when it work, you hit the button and a perfect matched clip magically appears :-D ... if there weren't ...

A dry Mono ( maybe Direct Monitoring ) signal, wich only OBS can hear :-D?

I am on an MacMini M1 on Sonoma 14.0. Newest Version of OBS. As Audio Source I use my Scarlett 4i4 USB 3rdGen. The Scarlett is used as input for an active RODE mic on Phantom Power as well. Guitar ist coming from an PodGo via USB.

What I hear while recording in my Headphones and on the Monitors is the DAW (Garage Band) Loopback, processed via GarageBand. With the mixing Software Focusrite Control I have turned off the Active Monitoring, so that I don't hear the dry signal from the mic anymore in my headphones or monitors.

Now the strange thing: OBS is still "hearing" the mic as a mono signal. And it is clear and loud and is been added to the recordings.

What I tried with my "knowledge":
- Tested with DAW off.
- Newest Firmware for Focusrite
- Tested every thinkable mixing or Routing setup in Focusrite Control.
- Tested the other input jack for the mic
- panned the Volumes down for Monitor an Headphone
- Googled like a modda......ga :-D

I hope it is just a small setting thing for witch I am not experienced enough and some of you can help with the right tip.

Thanks in advance
Wolf
 

Wolfcaster

New Member
Hi there,

even though nobody replied so far, I found a strangely random solution :-D. At least for recording with OBS.

Actually there was an update yesterday. Now the option macOS-Audioaufname is there for audio sources. First it didn't work, but there is an option to restart and then it works perfect. This was the main Problem with most of the other programs as well, that you had to install shitty desktop audio capture workaround software for that.

So I have good experience with OBS so far :-D

Nice Sunday everybody

Wolf
 
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