Expander causing pops and clicks after upgrade to OBS 29?

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pookievideo

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Did something change with the upgrade to OBS 29? I have been using the same expander settings for years. Standard RMS detection, with same hardware. Never changed anything and it always worked fantastic. I just upgraded to OBS 29. My chat was telling me they kept hearing clicks and pops when I spoke. I checked in audacity and mic was fine. Checked and recording in OBS and clicks and pops. Disabled all filters and found it was the expander causing the issue. It was working fine last stream and had been fine for years. I upgraded today and now it is causing issues.

Was something changed?
 
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lyksus14

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I upgraded to OBS 29 yesterday myself. As I was speaking, I quickly heard the clicking. I'm used to some issues because of my rather intricate setup. However, I searched around yesterday for what felt like years, but I came down to the solution, it had to be the expander.

Not just that. If I input more attack on the Expander, the sound turns into a robot. Literally. It's sort of the fading that's clicky and bugged. I suppose it's supposed to go from 0 to 100 depending on how much attack time. The issue still exists with 1ms attack, almost 1:1 ratio and -40db threshold.

I'll try to downgrade to 28 and I'll stay there until the issue is fixed. It's the same issue with "peak" but it's slightly less annoying.
 
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kaikutv

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My chat noticed the same thing and thanks to that, I overhauled my whole filter setup. Didn't even cross my mind to check filter by filter, but you live and learn I quess. I truly hope that they get it working again, pretty annoying and after fiddling with the filters for two days I don't want to roll back.
 
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Silenthunter65

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I'm having the same problem. On OBS 28, I recorded an hour of audio and it sounded perfectly fine. After updating to 29, I had to re-record some audio and immediately noticed the light popping sound, and I haven't made any adjustments to anything. Not my mic filters or any software, and I ensured that my OBS and windows mic settings both matched at 48k.

As mentioned above I dropped my attack time in the expander down to 1ms and the popping stopped but now you can hear tons of background noise and I can't find a decent balance.

Really annoying that this happened, hopefully there's a fix soon. I'm almost tempted to roll back to update 28.
 
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Silenthunter65

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Silenthunter65 said:
I'm having the same problem. On OBS 28, I recorded an hour of audio and it sounded perfectly fine. After updating to 29, I had to re-record some audio and immediately noticed the light popping sound, and I haven't made any adjustments to anything. Not my mic filters or any software, and I ensured that my OBS and windows mic settings both matched at 48k.

As mentioned above I dropped my attack time in the expander down to 1ms and the popping stopped but now you can hear tons of background noise and I can't find a decent balance.

Really annoying that this happened, hopefully there's a fix soon. I'm almost tempted to roll back to update 28.
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Okay so I just rolled back to 28.1.2 and the popping immediately stopped...

If anyone else wants to do this here's the download link, just run the exe and it'll run no problem, all your old settings should still be there.

Back-up your obs folder just in case (C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Roaming\obs-studio)

Take note of what plug-ins you have and double check to see if they are still there after you roll-back, as you may have to re-install them. Took me all of 10 minutes to roll-back.

github.com

Release OBS Studio 28.1.2 · obsproject/obs-studio

If you would like to support the OBS Project, please consider contributing to our Patreon or Open Collective! NOTE: Some plugins may not be compatible with OBS 28. You can check the status of the m...
github.com github.com
 
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pookievideo

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Any way to get this thread to the attention of support? Do we have to report a bug or something? I just downgraded back to 28.1.2 as well and the popping on the expander is fixed. This is obviously a problem with 29.
 
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sandrix

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pookievideo said:
Any way to get this thread to the attention of support? Do we have to report a bug or something? I just downgraded back to 28.1.2 as well and the popping on the expander is fixed. This is obviously a problem with 29.
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Pull requests with this problem have already been created on github and merged.
github.com

Expander produce "clicks" after attack event happens, after update from OBS v28 to v29 · Issue #8030 · obsproject/obs-studio

Operating System Info macOS 13.1 Other OS M1 Pro OBS Studio Version Other OBS Studio Version (Other) 29.0.0 OBS Studio Log URL https://obsproject.com/logs/Dei5QTHkC3co7Vhi OBS Studio Crash Log URL ...
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obs-filters: Reapply audio processing above threshold for expander by pkviet · Pull Request #8031 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description Some code was applied to both expander and upward compressor. We limit it now to the compressor to keep the same behaviour as previous versions. The said code was setting the gain to 0 ...
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pookievideo

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Man I really wish I wasn't a moron. Is that an actual fix you can download? I have no idea what I am looking at if there is a download there.
 
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N8Nefarious

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pookievideo said:
Did something change with the upgrade to OBS 29? I have been using the same expander settings for years. Standard RMS detection, with same hardware. Never changed anything and it always worked fantastic. I just upgraded to OBS 29. My chat was telling me they kept hearing clicks and pops when I spoke. I checked in audacity and mic was fine. Checked and recording in OBS and clicks and pops. Disabled all filters and found it was the expander causing the issue. It was working fine last stream and had been fine for years. I upgraded today and now it is causing issues.

Was something changed?
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Not only am I getting the attack pop in the expander, I've been having issues during long streams with my mic audio randomly popping and crackling at irregular intervals. It all started after the new update, and it happens on both of my PCs.
 
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N8Nefarious

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Silenthunter65 said:
Okay so I just rolled back to 28.1.2 and the popping immediately stopped...

If anyone else wants to do this here's the download link, just run the exe and it'll run no problem, all your old settings should still be there.

Back-up your obs folder just in case (C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Roaming\obs-studio)

Take note of what plug-ins you have and double check to see if they are still there after you roll-back, as you may have to re-install them. Took me all of 10 minutes to roll-back.

github.com

Release OBS Studio 28.1.2 · obsproject/obs-studio

If you would like to support the OBS Project, please consider contributing to our Patreon or Open Collective! NOTE: Some plugins may not be compatible with OBS 28. You can check the status of the m...
github.com github.com
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Thanks for the assist. Assume rolling back worked for me if you never hear from me again, lol. (I'm forgetful)
 
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lyksus14

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Rolling it back solved my issue, but I'm waiting to see whether the issue is fixed in 29.0.1 or not. I can't find it in the logs.
 
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