Question / Help Game Audio Sounds Like Wind Is Whipping Through It

[atfault]

Let's start off by saying I am the noobiest of noobs when it comes to any of this. I have almost no experience when it comes to working with audio or video or even just PC stuff in general. So I apologize in advance for my complete and total ignorance and lack of understanding.

Here's the deal. I've been messing around with OBS for a while today and haven't gotten to the point where audio quality is satisfactory yet. I managed to get the audio from my microphone sounding fine! I'm totally happy with every bit of the audio coming from my microphone. But I've been testing the audio that OBS picks up from my computer with youtube videos and other online sources of sound, and that audio sounds fine when I listen to it as I'm recording, but when I play back the recording, it sounds like the person doing the video is standing outside with a camera mic on an extremely windy day. The audio from my mic still sounds fine.

I've narrowed down the cause of the problem, I think, but I can't figure out a solution. The current setup I'm using to record is as bare-bones as it gets. I'm using a headset that doesn't use USB, it has a single, uh, jack(?) that I plug in for both the input (my voice) and the output (the stuff I hear from my headphones.) The laptop I'm recording on only has one audio jack, so I kinda can't split those two things even if I wanted to. When I don't have these headphones plugged in, the audio it records from the youtube video sounds perfect. That's great and all, but I kinda need these headphones plugged in for the sake of both recording myself and, y'know, hearing stuff. Is there anything I can do to fix this beyond buying new hardware? I mean, I plan to buy new hardware at some point. But I'd like to have some basic capabilities to experiment with before really buying in, here.

(For context, I'm aware that this PC isn't super up to the task of streaming, but I want to be able to at least use the thing to experiment and learn stuff and end up with something at the bare minimum listenable.)

Here's the log thing, though a lot of it is beyond me... (also, it says I've changed the preset to superfast when in fact it is set to veryfast, I'm not sure why.) https://gist.github.com/e4e4a3f6b400c1e83eb4

 

[dping]

Let's start off by saying I am the noobiest of noobs when it comes to any of this. I have almost no experience when it comes to working with audio or video or even just PC stuff in general. So I apologize in advance for my complete and total ignorance and lack of understanding.

Here's the deal. I've been messing around with OBS for a while today and haven't gotten to the point where audio quality is satisfactory yet. I managed to get the audio from my microphone sounding fine! I'm totally happy with every bit of the audio coming from my microphone. But I've been testing the audio that OBS picks up from my computer with youtube videos and other online sources of sound, and that audio sounds fine when I listen to it as I'm recording, but when I play back the recording, it sounds like the person doing the video is standing outside with a camera mic on an extremely windy day. The audio from my mic still sounds fine.

I've narrowed down the cause of the problem, I think, but I can't figure out a solution. The current setup I'm using to record is as bare-bones as it gets. I'm using a headset that doesn't use USB, it has a single, uh, jack(?) that I plug in for both the input (my voice) and the output (the stuff I hear from my headphones.) The laptop I'm recording on only has one audio jack, so I kinda can't split those two things even if I wanted to. When I don't have these headphones plugged in, the audio it records from the youtube video sounds perfect. That's great and all, but I kinda need these headphones plugged in for the sake of both recording myself and, y'know, hearing stuff. Is there anything I can do to fix this beyond buying new hardware? I mean, I plan to buy new hardware at some point. But I'd like to have some basic capabilities to experiment with before really buying in, here.

(For context, I'm aware that this PC isn't super up to the task of streaming, but I want to be able to at least use the thing to experiment and learn stuff and end up with something at the bare minimum listenable.)

Here's the log thing, though a lot of it is beyond me... (also, it says I've changed the preset to superfast when in fact it is set to veryfast, I'm not sure why.) https://gist.github.com/e4e4a3f6b400c1e83eb4

you can buy a splitter to split a 4 prong headphone w/ mic to a dual 3 prong mic and headphones plugs. read descriptions for what it does as one that just splits will look the same.

 

[atfault]

The issue there is that I've only got one port for these things on my PC. Now, It comes with a splitter, and I can plug in the headphones or the mic separately, but doing that doesn't exactly solve the issue I'm having. I need to have the headphones plugged in, but whenever they are, whether or not the mic is plugged in as well, I get this awful wind effect.

Also, having now attempted this with multiple different sets of headphones, it happens with all of them. I realize this may be a hardware thing; my PC may not be up to snuff, but I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to make this work in a makeshift manner.

I'm trying to think of other ways to describe the audio issue....

It's really... bass-y? And it doesn't occur when there's no audio playing; it's not a constant white noise. It's not buzzing. It's not acho-y. It's not hollow, it's not screechy; it doesn't sound like feedback. It just sounds terrible and I've found literally no one else describing a similar problem anywhere on the internet which is immensely frustration and this whole thing feels utterly hopeless.

EDIT:

I've found a solution. There were no settings to alter the enhancements anywhere I could find previously, it's all buried in a special menu for Dell computers and turning those off did it. I feel like an idiot for the solution being so simple, but I'm leaving the post up in case anyone else has this problem.