Audio Looping problem

[QueenandMia]

Just started having this problem. Not sure how to fix it. Pls help my voice loops into my headphones and i can figure out how to get it to stop. She sound end up in my live stream and in my video. I am new to this so i would appreciate any help i can get.

 

[AaronD]

If the loop is more than about 1 second or so, then it's almost certainly because you're watching the stream with the audio on, and that's getting picked up again. Mute the stream return, and you should be good.

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If it's less than 1 second, then it's probably a local loopback. Most of the time, that's caused by Desktop Capturing or Audio Output Capturing the same device that you send the Monitor to. Those captures catch EVERYTHING that the selected device does, with a pedantic definition of "everything". So yes, OBS's own Monitor is included.

The solution there, is to use different devices for the Monitor and the Capture, and design your rig to still work with that requirement, or, don't Monitor anything if you can afford that.

Windows also has a setting to "listen to this device", or something like that, which might also be part of the problem. But check OBS first, as it's easier to get to.

 

[QueenandMia]

i think it may be the latter but i have no idea how to fix it. I recorded a video and the loop was still there. I had to put it in my premier pro and delete one of the audio tracks and i can hear myself in my headset which i couldn't before. Not sure what the what happened? The loop is there for the entire time im recording for streaming.

 

[QueenandMia]

These r my setting if it helps

 

[QueenandMia]

Thank u so much for ur help but I found the problem. I had to delete my mic from my source and make a completely new source for my mic. Now the loop is gone and i cant hear myself tho my headset any more. Just posted this just in case the could help someone else

 

[AaronD]

You probably had the Monitor on before, and the new one has it off. That setting is here:

And the choice of device is here:

If the Monitor goes to the same place as a Desktop source (same settings window) or an Output capture (part of a scene) pulls from, then that Desktop or Output audio includes the Monitor too. If that source is also sent to the Monitor (first screenshot here), that's a loop, and an infinite echo.

Not Monitoring the Mic, eliminates that starting point, but the loop is still present, repeating silence, and anything else can start it too. Then you hear *that*, repeated forever.

So, the settings that I show here, also create a loop:

• Desktop and Monitor set to the same device.
• Desktop has the Monitor turned on.

 

[AaronD]

If you don't use the Desktop source, or an Output capture, or whatever else, Disable or remove it. Don't leave stuff hanging around that can only hurt.

Default is not your friend, nor can it be for something with such wide uses. Don't think that it ought to "just work" just because you didn't mess with it. Quite often, you *have* to mess with it, to make it work for you. The defaults only are what they are because *some* value is required there, not because those values are any good for what you're doing.