Can I use Scenes to create different Audio Input profiles?

fredphoesh

fredphoesh

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Hello all,
I am pretty new to this, trying to get my head around the function of Scenes/Sources vs Settings etc.
I have done some Wiki reading, but am still a bit confused.
Basically what I'm trying to do...
I want to have two "profiles" that I can switch between. One with Desktop Audio as one Input (A1) and USB Mic as the other. (A2) - I have set this up already.
Then I would like a second "profile" which has only USB mic as single channel input (A1) - so I don't have two channels of audio when I am only recording to one.

I tried making a new Scene and then tried to find a way to de-Activate the Desktop Audio, but could not find a way to do that, and also switching between one Scene and another didn't seem to change the settings I had changed for the different Scenes.

Is there a way to do this, apologies again for my newbieness...
Mark.
 
koala

koala

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What you see in the OBS audio mixer is merged from the global audio sources you define in Settings->Audio (which is controlled by profiles) and from scene-local audio sources you create by adding audio input sources and audio output sources (which is controlled by your scene and sources setup).

If you define one profile with "Desktop audio" in Settings->Audio, this audio source will appear for every scene as long as this profile is active.

If you define a different profile where you remove any "Desktop audio" source in Settings->Audio, every "Desktop audio" source will magically vanish from every scene, if you switch to that profile, and it will magically reappear if you switch back to the previous profile where this source is defined. You don't have to change the scenes, because the global audio sources are saved in the profile setup.
 
PaiSand

PaiSand

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Hotkeys are your freinds. Mute/unmute audio sources. You can use the same key / combination of keys for both actions.
 
fredphoesh

fredphoesh

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koala said:
What you see in the OBS audio mixer is merged from the global audio sources you define in Settings->Audio
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Thanks for the input Koala and PaiSand
Ah, so what *I THINK* I understand from that is that the global settings determine which audio sources will be present, and to change them, there is no one click Scene or such which can be applied, I would have to go to settings each time to deactivate audio inputs I don't want, correct?

You mention the word "profile" - in settings, which sounds interesting to be able to save settings under different profiles... but I don't see a way to save settings options as a profile (or am I missing it somewhere?)

PaiSand, I want to be able to record only one channel, not to mute the second channel... but thanks anyway, that's useful info.
Mark.
 
koala

koala

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Everything you configure if you click the Settings button is in the current profile. Look at the menu bar at the top: there is the menu Profile. With this, you can create new, duplicate, rename and switch between profiles. You don't explicitly save something to a profile. Everything you configure is for the currently active profile, so you create a profile, switch to it, and change settings you'd like to be that profile.
 
fredphoesh

fredphoesh

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koala said:
Everything you configure if you click the Settings button is in the current profile. Look at the menu bar at the top: there is the menu Profile. With this, you can create new, duplicate, rename and switch between profiles. You don't explicitly save something to a profile. Everything you configure is for the currently active profile, so you create a profile, switch to it, and change settings you'd like to be that profile.
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Ah, great, I will give that a fiddle, it seems that would do the trick, thanks!
 
fredphoesh

fredphoesh

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koala said:
Everything you configure if you click the Settings button is in the current profile. Look at the menu bar at the top: there is the menu Profile. With this, you can create new, duplicate, rename and switch between profiles. You don't explicitly save something to a profile. Everything you configure is for the currently active profile, so you create a profile, switch to it, and change settings you'd like to be that profile.
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Hi, but that isn't what seems to happen!
I created a new profile, removed a scene, changed the settings to disable system sound and to have USB mic only, and this works fine, BUT when I go back to the original profile, the new settings are still in place, IE the system sound is not in the mixer as I removed system sound in the new profile!

Am I missing something? Thanks...
 
koala

koala

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Oh, it seems I had the wrong impression about OBS configuration. You're right. The global audio sources in Settings->Audio are definitely not saved in the profile. Instead, they are saved with the current scene collection.
So I guess if you sometimes want your desktop audio in your scene and sometimes not, for the same scene, you just mute the source as @PaiSand suggested.
If you're creating different sets of scenes, consider using "Scene Collections" (menu next to Profile). These collect all scenes and sources, including the global audio sources. These work for the global audio sources as I thought they would work for profiles.
 
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