DJ sound routing issue (Traktor)

[DjScutt]

Maybe some other DJs on here could help me with this.

I use Traktor and a Kontrol MK3 to play my sets. The issue I am having is that the silenced channel I am queuing is coming through over the live feed. This is only in the video and does not occur on a straight audio recording nor over my monitor.

As far as my output settings, I currently have the internal mixer master output set, no monitor channel (using the 8th inch output on Kontrol for that), and the win built-in is set for Kontrol. In OBS I'm using the Application Audio Capture (beta). Have the most recent version of OBS as of the writing of this.

I feel it has to be something in the way that OBS channels the audio.

This is driving me mad. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

[AaronD]

As far as my output settings, I currently have the internal mixer master output set, no monitor channel

Sounds like you are indeed sending it to the stream.

The Monitor is the only output that can connect to headphones, speakers, or another app, so that's what you'd use to queue something up in OBS. Use the Monitor Only setting for that, and then change it back to something else when you're ready to stream it.

If you're using something else, outside of OBS, to queue it up, then you'd run your headphones from that, and simply mute it in OBS, or in the something else's feed to OBS.

*Most* professional audio consoles keep the channel strip working when it's muted, and only stop the outputs from that strip, so that the headphones (PFL/Solo) and inserted processing still work. Not all do that though: the very low/cheap end of analog boards tend to stop the input to the strip as a cheaper way to make the circuitry (one physical mute point, instead of multiple), which of course kills *everything*.

I heard a story about a high school sound guy (probably had one of those dirt cheap consoles, because school bureaucracy), who wasn't enjoying the ballet recital at all, and decided to put one of his favorite CD's in the rackmounted player that the recital wasn't using, and put the headphones on. Gotta give him credit for meaning well - sorta - but the cheap board required him to have the strip on/unmuted to make the headphones work...and I think you can guess the rest!