Echo when recording from VCR source

[Woodhead]

Hi All,
I am new to OBS recording and I am using it to transfer home video from VCR to hard drive. I have source audio set to monitor and output only audio from the VCR, yet I am getting reverb and echo in my audio recording. Video is recording just fine. Any advice on getting a clean audio track?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[lkschoen]

Hi All,
I am new to OBS recording and I am using it to transfer home video from VCR to hard drive. I have source audio set to monitor and output only audio from the VCR, yet I am getting reverb and echo in my audio recording. Video is recording just fine. Any advice on getting a clean audio track?

Thanks,
Mark

HI All, new here also. I have same issue, did it get resolved?

 

[AaronD]

An echo is often caused by Monitoring a source in OBS, and Desktop Capturing the same audio device that the Monitor goes to. The Desktop Capture catches EVERYTHING that the device does, with a pedantic definition of "everything". So if you use that device to monitor something, you get a (slightly delayed) copy of that something in the Desktop source too.

Disable everything that you're not using. That's audio management 101. The only thing an unused thing can do is hurt. So disable it, mute it, turn its volume all the way down, whatever it takes to make its misbehavior not matter.

Don't blindly trust the default settings. Understand them and intentionally set them to work for you specifically. Media production is inherently technical; get used to it.