Can't get rid of the echo while recording or live-streaming

[wwdileie]

Hi, have been using OBS to broadcast a few live streams but despite my best efforts and watching multiple fixes on how to get rid of echo, I can't find a solution :(.

So I'm using a headset and an EPOS microphone. I have a webcam with a mic as well. I have tried everything from disabling everything n advanced audio setting, making sure every audio out from the audio mixer is muted except for the EPOS Mic and headset speakers (heck I even tried unplugging the webcam to see if that made any difference). Have gone into settings and made sure only the EPOS Mic is enabled. I get perfect sound coming through my headset with no echo at all, which is what I would expect the recording to sound like as well. When I record or do a live-stream with the same settings, there is a really, really bad echo!!!! I have no idea what else to check. Why should it sound perfectly in the headset yet the recording or live-stream sounds like it's in an echo chamber? Been working on resolving this for weeks and no joy, can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Thanks so much in advance :)

 

[AaronD]

Do you Monitor yourself in the headset? If not and you start, you might suddenly hear it. :-)

If you've tried everything else, I wonder if your ears are bleeding into the mic?

I was doing sound for a live music gig once, and the band had a click track (metronome) running to my board and then to their in-ear monitors (glorified earbuds, and likely *were* a set of cheap 'buds) in addition to everything else that they wanted to hear. It took me a while to figure out why I could still hear the click in the PA, despite double- and triple-checking that I was *not* sending it there. Turns out it was bleeding from the lead singer's 'buds into his mic!

 

[wwdileie]

Hi, thanks for responding. I have the headset to monitor. The Headset mic is off (it has a physical on/off switch on the headset). The only other mic I have is on the wecam, but I even tried unpluggin it and trying, same result (normally it is muted). The issue is that what I hear in the headset is perfect and clear (nothing like the playback I hear in the same headset after recording with the same settings), but when I hit record or live-stream, I sounds like I'm an echo :(. Man this is frustrating as there is no clear thing I have to check or sort out. Something seems to be going wrong in OBS and how it records and streams? The reason I say that is why do I hear (through OBS) a crystal clear feedback, but the recording is a world apart?

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

When you've tried the obvious....
- Are you SURE the headset mic physical mute button actually works?
- have you tried with the headset physically disconnected (so no monitoring at all)

Be sure to post your OBS log, in case there is something obvious in your settings? any plugins? etc

In my use case, I found OBS Studio's Global/Default Desktop Audio only got in my way (and I didn't need it). I simply added ONLY the Audio sources I needed per OBS Scene (using a common (Referenced, not Duplicated) Audio Mic source as appropriate)
- I also went into WinOS Control Panel, and disabled (ie, at OS layer) Audio Input and Output (ex, HDMI connected displays) devices I'm not using

Then there are things like - Might you have both Desktop Audio (which includes the mic), and separately added the Mic as an Audio source in OBS Studio? etc .. audio routing can get tricky. Then, what might have been simple to resolve, could have bene made more complex (maybe) by your attempt to troubleshoot (depending on if you got fancy with tracks, plugins, Source, Audio filters/effects, etc)