I've been having issues for a while now with audio in OBS. For instance when I record a video OBS only captures my desktop audio (my game) but does not record my mic even though the volume bars show OBS picking up my mic. So I played around a bit with "Monitor and Output" in the mixer and now my audio is doubled (I hear myself through the desktop audio)
Question / Help Double Audio (Can hear mic through/playing in desktop Audio)
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koala
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First, disable monitoring (set "Audio Monitoring" to "Monitor off") for both sources to disable the echo.
Second, in Advanced Audio Settings, you configured Desktop Audio to go to audio track 1 and mic going to track 2. What do you intend to do with separating audio in 2 tracks?
In case you don't know why you split the audio in the first place, revert it and send both to track 1 only (move the check from 2 to 1). Then you will have both sources mixed in track 1 and hear both.
In case you want to postprocess game audio and mic audio separately, check Settings->Output->Recording and verify that you activated tracks 1 and 2 for writing to the video. And that you use a file format such as *.mkv that is able to carry multiple audio tracks. *.flv isn't, but mkv and mp4 are. In this case, at playback, be aware that a media player never mixes audio from different tracks. You can listen to one track at a time only. In the media player, you can switch from track 1 to track 2 to hear your mic. But you cannot make the media player mix both tracks and play both. For this, you need to postprocess your video and mix track 1+2 and replace both tracks with your mixed track.
For preview, you can have the best of both variants: Activate 3 tracks in Settings->Output->Recording and check track 1 and track 2 for Desktop audio and check 1 and 3 for Mic in Advanced Audio Settings. So you're writing 3 tracks: track 1 with both sources mixed (and this is what your media player will playback as default), track 2 with desktop audio only and track 3 with mic only. In case you feel the urge to postprocess your audio, you have the option to mix track 2+3, but you can also listen to an already mixed version from track 1 as well.
Second, in Advanced Audio Settings, you configured Desktop Audio to go to audio track 1 and mic going to track 2. What do you intend to do with separating audio in 2 tracks?
In case you don't know why you split the audio in the first place, revert it and send both to track 1 only (move the check from 2 to 1). Then you will have both sources mixed in track 1 and hear both.
In case you want to postprocess game audio and mic audio separately, check Settings->Output->Recording and verify that you activated tracks 1 and 2 for writing to the video. And that you use a file format such as *.mkv that is able to carry multiple audio tracks. *.flv isn't, but mkv and mp4 are. In this case, at playback, be aware that a media player never mixes audio from different tracks. You can listen to one track at a time only. In the media player, you can switch from track 1 to track 2 to hear your mic. But you cannot make the media player mix both tracks and play both. For this, you need to postprocess your video and mix track 1+2 and replace both tracks with your mixed track.
For preview, you can have the best of both variants: Activate 3 tracks in Settings->Output->Recording and check track 1 and track 2 for Desktop audio and check 1 and 3 for Mic in Advanced Audio Settings. So you're writing 3 tracks: track 1 with both sources mixed (and this is what your media player will playback as default), track 2 with desktop audio only and track 3 with mic only. In case you feel the urge to postprocess your audio, you have the option to mix track 2+3, but you can also listen to an already mixed version from track 1 as well.