Muso
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Boy, this took me ages to fix ... I set up a live stream in facebook to do a gig with guitar and voice, to my horror the stream had a terrible slap back type delay ... in essence, the audio was being pushed out twice thus causing the echo/doubling ... after watching years of instruction videos and fixes, I stumbled across my fix through my own trial and error, and my settings somewhat seem wrong but they work
SETUP
Guitar and Mic - into Bose ToneMatch Audio Engine - Master out into Input 1 on Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 with Instrument on - into USB on MSI i7 Windows Laptop
Volume settings are set on Bose guitar and mic channels, and then on Focusrite - monitoring is done via Beyerdynamic headphones plugged in Focusrite
Now, here are my OBS settings, and it looked all wrong after my original setup using recommended settings in begiiner/tutorial vids
First, via SETTINGS (bottom right) I then used these AUDIO settings
Yes, Desktop Audio DISABLED with MIC/AUXILIARY
Then, in the Mixer panel MUTE your webcam (only audio in mixer should be Mic/Aux and your webcam, nothing else) ... Sources I added to my Scene are only my webcam and the picture I use for streaming before I go live (see first pic) ... I am using my iPad Pro with the excellent Camera for OBS Studio app
right click in the Audio Mixer panel and select ADVANCED AUDIO SETTINGS ... only Mic/Aux and webcam should show up ... UN-TICK ALL TRACKS for your webcam ... TICK ONLY TRACK 1 for your Mic/Aux ... MONITOR OFF for both webcam and Mic/Aux ... I also TICK MONO
now to the Windows bit ... first, open Control Panel (Right Click Window Logo on left of task bar, select RUN type in CONTROL then hit ENTER if you can't see it) ... select SOUND and select STUDIO MIXER as your PLAYBACK device
under RECORDING TAB on STUDIO MIXER tick LISTEN TO THIS DEVICE (I have my system speaker selected for PLAYBACK THROUGH THIS DEVICE btw, not my Focusrite)
now right click on your SPEAKER icon, select OPEN SOUND SETTINGS ... here select your audio interface (mine is Focusrite) for BOTH OUTPUT AND INPUT
final step is to scroll down and under ADVANCED SOUND OPTIONS click on APP VOLUME AND DEVICE PREFERENCES ... here OUTPUT AND INPUT should show as your audio interface ... also, under APP set OBS to your audio interface INPUT AND OUTPUT ... if you can't see OBS under APP, open OBS so that it's running
one more extra that can help ... with OBS running press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to open TASK MANAGER ... click on DETAILS TAB and scroll down until you find OBS (mine shows as obs64.exe) ... right click on it and SET PRIORITY to HIGH ... scroll down to PROPERTIES and tick RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR ... this will help to give OBS higher CPU priority and help with latency/stutter
this has completely fixed my audio issues playing live music through OBS into facebook ... I really hope it helps you as well, please let me know how you get on ... I have purposely tried to lay out each step as clearly as possible to help the less technical musicians, not trying to be patronising ... we've all been there
SETUP
Guitar and Mic - into Bose ToneMatch Audio Engine - Master out into Input 1 on Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 with Instrument on - into USB on MSI i7 Windows Laptop
Volume settings are set on Bose guitar and mic channels, and then on Focusrite - monitoring is done via Beyerdynamic headphones plugged in Focusrite
Now, here are my OBS settings, and it looked all wrong after my original setup using recommended settings in begiiner/tutorial vids
First, via SETTINGS (bottom right) I then used these AUDIO settings
Yes, Desktop Audio DISABLED with MIC/AUXILIARY
Then, in the Mixer panel MUTE your webcam (only audio in mixer should be Mic/Aux and your webcam, nothing else) ... Sources I added to my Scene are only my webcam and the picture I use for streaming before I go live (see first pic) ... I am using my iPad Pro with the excellent Camera for OBS Studio app
right click in the Audio Mixer panel and select ADVANCED AUDIO SETTINGS ... only Mic/Aux and webcam should show up ... UN-TICK ALL TRACKS for your webcam ... TICK ONLY TRACK 1 for your Mic/Aux ... MONITOR OFF for both webcam and Mic/Aux ... I also TICK MONO
now to the Windows bit ... first, open Control Panel (Right Click Window Logo on left of task bar, select RUN type in CONTROL then hit ENTER if you can't see it) ... select SOUND and select STUDIO MIXER as your PLAYBACK device
under RECORDING TAB on STUDIO MIXER tick LISTEN TO THIS DEVICE (I have my system speaker selected for PLAYBACK THROUGH THIS DEVICE btw, not my Focusrite)
now right click on your SPEAKER icon, select OPEN SOUND SETTINGS ... here select your audio interface (mine is Focusrite) for BOTH OUTPUT AND INPUT
final step is to scroll down and under ADVANCED SOUND OPTIONS click on APP VOLUME AND DEVICE PREFERENCES ... here OUTPUT AND INPUT should show as your audio interface ... also, under APP set OBS to your audio interface INPUT AND OUTPUT ... if you can't see OBS under APP, open OBS so that it's running
one more extra that can help ... with OBS running press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to open TASK MANAGER ... click on DETAILS TAB and scroll down until you find OBS (mine shows as obs64.exe) ... right click on it and SET PRIORITY to HIGH ... scroll down to PROPERTIES and tick RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR ... this will help to give OBS higher CPU priority and help with latency/stutter
this has completely fixed my audio issues playing live music through OBS into facebook ... I really hope it helps you as well, please let me know how you get on ... I have purposely tried to lay out each step as clearly as possible to help the less technical musicians, not trying to be patronising ... we've all been there