Question / Help Differences in Mic vs Game Volume

[MikeWubWubowski]

So I've been using OBS for a while, but for some reason, over the past couple weeks, my mic volume has been extremely lower than the game volume. I've had the OBS volume at about 30% and my mic volume at 100% and the in game volume of the game I am playing is usually sitting at about 30% as well. They only real change I have done over the past couple weeks is changed the desktop boost under the audio setting from 1 to 3-4. Is this making my game volume louder than my mic? Because the thread I saw, they used Desktop boost as an easy way to eliminate white noise from the PC. Or should I also use Mic Boost too?

 

[Lain]

If you record your stream to file, you'll be able to see exactly what your viewers get. I would recommend just using that to test out the quality/settings of your stream. Not sure what's going on with the desktop sound -- it depends on what sort of sound output you have and what your actual windows sound levels are set to.

 

[MikeWubWubowski]

If you record your stream to file, you'll be able to see exactly what your viewers get. I would recommend just using that to test out the quality/settings of your stream. Not sure what's going on with the desktop sound -- it depends on what sort of sound output you have and what your actual windows sound levels are set to.

Yeah I have been trying to record locally just to see what's going on... I just went in and lowered my Realtek audio inside the Control Panel. Hopefully that will help.

 

[MikeWubWubowski]

If you record your stream to file, you'll be able to see exactly what your viewers get. I would recommend just using that to test out the quality/settings of your stream. Not sure what's going on with the desktop sound -- it depends on what sort of sound output you have and what your actual windows sound levels are set to.

Jim, I'm also using game capture over window capture. I usually have used window capture and the volume controls work perfectly fine... But I guess now that I'm using game capture something else is happening...

 

[TheIcon]

Twitch streaming works fine with my 1300kb/s bitrate and about 540p resolution. However, If I record locally at about 50mb/s at 1080p, the the recording file just freezes at the first frame but the sound keeps on advancing.

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