Audient ID14 Direct Monitor as OBS Mic / Aux audio source : output is Mono LEFT : how to get STEREO OUTPUT ?

[Sam-HTG]

Hello guys,

Everything is already in the title : I'm trying to get an Audio Source in OBS with the sound of the Direct Monitor of my Audient ID14 interface.

In Audio -> settings, I've set Mic / Auxiliary Audio to Audient ID14.

Then I've added an audio source with this Mic/Aux.

I get sound but only left. It's full mono.

How to get a stereo Output ?

Thanks for help

 

[AaronD]

In the Advanced Audio Properties, is it panned hard-left and mono'ed? That'll do it.

That's often done on purpose to separate a 2-channel interface into two separate mono-centered mics: have two copies of that "stereo" source, pan them hard in opposite directions, and mono both. That works because OBS has the panner and mono button backwards from most professional gear, and it just happens to make up for another pro-gear faux pas of not choosing specific channels of a multi-channel interface.

 

[Sam-HTG]

Hello Aaron,

Thanks for replying to this post. I thought about this as well but unfortunately, it's not possible to pan the track. The pan bar is grey and can't be pushed either left or right.

 

[rockbottom]

Waste of time, it's a non-starter. TBC is still trying as far as I know...

Audio stutters/dropouts only in OBS recordings

I am driving myself a little crazy trying to troubleshoot this one, so I thought I'd see if anyone here has any thoughts or ideas. I recently picked up an Audient EVO 8 as a nice general use interface, but in particular, I want to use it in conjunction with OBS to record weekly D&D sessions...

obsproject.com

 

[AaronD]

Waste of time, it's a non-starter. TBC is still trying as far as I know...

Audio stutters/dropouts only in OBS recordings

I am driving myself a little crazy trying to troubleshoot this one, so I thought I'd see if anyone here has any thoughts or ideas. I recently picked up an Audient EVO 8 as a nice general use interface, but in particular, I want to use it in conjunction with OBS to record weekly D&D sessions...

obsproject.com

Looks like a completely different issue to me. Unless I'm missing something?
(didn't read all 3 pages, so it's entirely possible that I did)

 

[rockbottom]

It is but I suspect even if the mono/stereo issue is resolved there will still be gaps in the audio. Just making Sam aware that success with that device is more than likely unobtainable.

 

[AaronD]

Audient ID14

Okay, I looked it up now. Yeah, I don't think that's going to work very well.
Nothing to do with the other issue as far as I can tell, but everything to do with the channel count.

Audient iD14 - Tech Specs

iD14 provides two Audient console mic pres, class-leading Burr Brown converter technology & more all in a compact and elegant desktop package.

audient.com

(last section, about USB)

You're getting 10 channels of audio from it, which OBS insists/demands is some kind of exotic surround format, along the same vein as:

1. Mono
2. Stereo
3. 2.1 (Stereo with Subwoofer)
4. Quadraphonic (4 corners with no sub)
5. 4.1 (quad with sub)
6. 5.1 (4 corners plus front-center and sub)
7. ???
8. 7.1 (5.1, plus side-centers)

Etc.
The channel assignments are loosely similar to this, and can't be changed either:

Multiple channel audio data and WAVE files - Windows 10 hardware dev

learn.microsoft.com

When OBS gets something like that, it downmixes it from the assumed standard (one of the above), to the channel count that OBS is set to. Usually stereo. THEN (and only then) it lets you play with that mess.

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I think you need a different interface. Only 2 channels reported to the computer, not 10 like this one does.

Or, put something in between that can take individual channels and work with them as separate signals, like a DAW. (Digital Audio Workstation: a complete sound studio in one app. It only does audio, and it does it VERY WELL!) Once you do have a DAW, do all of your audio work in there, and leave OBS completely silent except for a dumb, straight-wire passthrough that is fed from the DAW.

 

[rp100]

I may be off the mark here, as no expert, but if this is the same as the issue I experienced, I used Rogue Amoeba Loopback to capture the mono audio from the interface, and output as a stereo signal (two outputs from one input) to 'fool' OBS into thinking there was a single stereo input from a multi input device.

I created a stereo virtual output from Loopback, which I set as the source for OBS.

 

[AaronD]

I may be off the mark here, as no expert, but if this is the same as the issue I experienced, I used Rogue Amoeba Loopback to capture the mono audio from the interface, and output as a stereo signal (two outputs from one input) to 'fool' OBS into thinking there was a single stereo input from a multi input device.

I created a stereo virtual output from Loopback, which I set as the source for OBS.

If it has access to all of the interface's channels separately, then yes, that can work.

I don't think you needed to split a mono source into centered stereo, as OBS *should* do that anyway for a true mono device, but if it works, it works.

Where you *would* have had to do that, is if you had a 2-channel mic interface and you're only using one channel, and you didn't want to use or didn't know about the "hard-pan and mono" trick:
Pan/balance all the way to the side that you want to use by itself, and then mono it, and now just that one channel is centered by itself with no trace of the other one. Set up two sources with that same device, with opposite pans/balances, and you can use the two channels independently, using only OBS.

Unfortunately, that trick doesn't really work beyond two channels, because the panner remains 2-ch regardless of the channel count that OBS is set for.
And you can't put one slightly left and the other slightly right. The mono button comes *after* the panner, which is backwards from pro gear and why the trick works in the first place, and enforces an exact center-pan. Your method solves the problem *before* OBS, so then OBS *can* play with the stereo field.

 

[rp100]

Thanks Aaron, that makes sense, I had thought he could mask/hide the additional channels from the ID14 by using loopback to present a simple stereo input to OBS, but that sounds like it is not useful.

 

[AaronD]

Thanks Aaron, that makes sense, I had thought he could mask/hide the additional channels from the ID14 by using loopback to present a simple stereo input to OBS, but that sounds like it is not useful.

I think it might, actually. I'm just providing more depth into *how* it works and what the nuances are.

Do it exactly as you did for your 1-channel (mono) device, except that you're taking just 1 channel out of a 10-channel device instead.