Audio Recording is Terrible...but just once???

[chillcharles]

Hi,

Yesterday I used my current setup and settings to stream playing games with my wife, worked completely fine no problems.

Today, I went to record some gameplay with my wife. I must've tested everything at least 10 times and absolutely everything worked perfectly.

So I hit record and we go for about 2 hours.

Upon reviewing the footage, I noticed that our recording sounds dreadful. It's far too quiet until either of us does anything remotely loud, and then it suddenly starts clipping like crazy.

Dumbfounded, I immediately went back to OBS to check what was wrong. Without changing a single setting (since YESTERDAY), all of my test recordings sounded completely fine.

Why. Why is it that I was able to stream for an hour straight and do just about 20+ test recordings the day after (before/after the bad one) to ensure nothing was wrong and everything sounds absolutely perfect, but once I hit record and do a two-hour recording of something I can't redo it just comes out sounding completely terrible.

I'm new to this forum so I don't know if there's some etiquette to what details I should provide, so let me know if there's anything I can do to help you help me. I'm completely defeated right now because this problem seems like an absolute act of God and it's completely demotivated me from recording again if that much footage can be ruined even though I did everything I could to ensure it was fine. (Including testing the audio with/without the game running, while alt+tabbing in and out, etc.)

Thank you.

 

[deFrisselle]

Please post an OBS log
What were you playing and how did you have it setup for both of you
A cheap second monitor is a great value for monitoring OBS

did you test with the two-game and audio inputs It's best to test in the scenario in which you will be using OBS in production

 

[chillcharles]

Please post an OBS log
What were you playing and how did you have it setup for both of you
A cheap second monitor is a great value for monitoring OBS

did you test with the two-game and audio inputs It's best to test in the scenario in which you will be using OBS in production

This SHOULD be the right log, i see it pathing to the right file (the bad audio one)

I was playing Dark Souls: Remastered and we were just using a single microphone and recording Desktop Audio on 1 and Mic Audio on 2

We don't have space for a 2nd monitor or I'd already have one haha

I don't know what you mean by "test with the two-game and audio inputs"

 

[AaronD]

Did you test it EXACTLY the way it was going to be used? That's a common mistake. "Just making sound" is different from the interactions and balance that it takes to combine several sources into something that works well. I would not be surprised if another session - simulated or real - of the actual stream, would do the same thing again.

Can you post a recording of the tests that you did, and what the stream was or would be? Since we're only interested in audio, the picture might be replaced with a static shot of the meters dancing, or whatever else might be relevant.

Probably upload to YouTube, Unlisted, and put the links here.