Audio Problem
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Echoing? Like two copies of the same source with different latency? I have a USB sound card that takes a finished mix from an external audio console, and feeds my headphones. OBS completes that signal path, so that the headphones tell me what OBS is actually getting, but the USB card also has a direct-monitoring switch. Turning that on while OBS is also active, creates two distinct copies of the same external feed, mixed together.
Or maybe it's a remote connection to someone else, that is feeding back to you, and you intentionally mix that in because you want to hear the other person...but they're also sending your audio back on the same channel?
Or maybe you're feeding the mic into some studio monitors, and that's getting back into the mic? That's the same type of feedback that a live audio engineer has to deal with. The solution there is simply to turn the volume down somewhere in the feedback path, re-aim things which uses their coverage patterns to effectively turn them down, or just cut that path entirely if you don't really need it. (unroute the mic to those speakers) Padding the walls can help too, if it's bouncing off of one and coming in from that direction, but the primary culprit is usually direct, not reflected.
Or maybe it's a remote connection to someone else, that is feeding back to you, and you intentionally mix that in because you want to hear the other person...but they're also sending your audio back on the same channel?
Or maybe you're feeding the mic into some studio monitors, and that's getting back into the mic? That's the same type of feedback that a live audio engineer has to deal with. The solution there is simply to turn the volume down somewhere in the feedback path, re-aim things which uses their coverage patterns to effectively turn them down, or just cut that path entirely if you don't really need it. (unroute the mic to those speakers) Padding the walls can help too, if it's bouncing off of one and coming in from that direction, but the primary culprit is usually direct, not reflected.
Kiritosblade
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I have not experienced a loopback like what has been described, however i do seem to have this rare occurrence where obs will show green when a mic for example is being picked up but that will remain at the -60 spot and just appear to 'work' yet not actually work.
My temporary solution to that is to just close obs, run as admin. Plain and simple fix. Works every time
My temporary solution to that is to just close obs, run as admin. Plain and simple fix. Works every time
That's an open invitation to get the entire machine hacked, not just your account on it. Don't do it!
If it works at all, then you've got a permissions problem somewhere. Fix the permissions. But don't be overly promiscuous with that either.
I'm an audio guy. I can't figure out what you're saying.
"show green" could be at least two things: the bottom majority of the meter, or the "dot" at the very bottom that serves as a color-coded quick check.
"remain at the -60 spot" could actually be some confusion between the meter proper and the "quick check" dot. The bottom of this meter is around -60 or so, and the dot is right next to that.
"not working" famously says nothing. HOW does it not work? Nothing gets through at all? Do you have a recognizable signal but mixed with noise of some kind? Entirely noise? Is it constant? Intermittent? If intermittent, what triggers it? Etc. All of those possibilities have different answers, sometimes drastically.
It also makes a huge difference if one thing works perfectly and something else has a specific problem; then we can rule out everything that feeds the good thing. That's why we ask what a different app does, like Audacity. If that's okay, then the mic itself and the operating system are good too. Or if the problem appears on the stream, to make a recording and see what that does. If that's okay, then everything on your end is probably good, and you need to focus on what the streaming platform does with it.