Question / Help Audio not recording

[kmesse]

Logfile https://obsproject.com/logs/PLAj8AcAp6e9cJgz
OBS Studio, WIN10.
The record levels pick up the the mic is working properly, but on playback there's no audio.
Tried MKV and MP4 using VLC player
Encoder is Quicksync, I don't see an NVENC option
Tried higher bitrate (256)
Samson usb mic, and brio video. I disabled all other audio inputs in Win 10.
Anything else I need to mention?

 

[Narcogen]

You're recording a single track, track 1. In Edit > Advanced Audio Properties, have you assigned all your audio devices to this track?

Are those sources set to either "output only" or "monitor and output" and not "monitor only"?

 

[kmesse]

I had them all recording to all tracks. I'll try setting them to track 1 only when I get a chance. Nothing is monitor only. I don't think I need anything multitrack.
What do tracks actually do? Do I set different mics to different tracks in scenes or something? Is there a link to an OBS audio tutorial?

 

[kmesse]

Okay, I'm an idiot... when I plug in the Samson mic, it has a mic output on it so it's redirecting the sound to the mic rather than the speakers. Unplug it and there's all the sound. SO I have to figure out how to not let it do that, or use the headphones from the mic itself or something.

I can either unplug the mic or disable it as a playback device in windows audio options if I don't think I'll listen through its headphones.
Edited In case anyone else has a Samson Meteor.

 

[koala]

What do tracks actually do? Do I set different mics to different tracks in scenes or something?

When video formats were designed, multiple audio tracks in a video were intended to provide multiple languages to the audience. When you switch between languages in your DVD player or in your media player, you actually switch between audio tracks. Because of that, every media player will play exactly one track at a time and will never mix audio tracks.

With recording, you kind of misuse the multiple track feature. You write different audio sources into different tracks, so you can postprocess them individually, mix them and create a mixed final output track as your postprocessing product. You remove the original tracks from your video in postprocessing and replace them with your one mixed track.
Recording all together makes them all synchronized and you don't need any additional software to record different audio sources.
Recording to multiple tracks isn't for the consumer, it's for the person who wants to postprocess each audio source individually and create his own mix. It gets easy to remove that misplaced cough from a mic recording, for example, without touching any game sound recorded along with that.

 

[kmesse]

When video formats were designed, multiple audio tracks in a video were intended to provide multiple languages to the audience. When you switch between languages in your DVD player or in your media player, you actually switch between audio tracks. Because of that, every media player will play exactly one track at a time and will never mix audio tracks.

With recording, you kind of misuse the multiple track feature. You write different audio sources into different tracks, so you can postprocess them individually, mix them and create a mixed final output track as your postprocessing product. You remove the original tracks from your video in postprocessing and replace them with your one mixed track.
Recording all together makes them all synchronized and you don't need any additional software to record different audio sources.
Recording to multiple tracks isn't for the consumer, it's for the person who wants to postprocess each audio source individually and create his own mix. It gets easy to remove that misplaced cough from a mic recording, for example, without touching any game sound recorded along with that.

Thanks for explaining that! I should never need to do that. :) I can just make everything track 1.