Help with monitoring

[GodPleaseHelpMe]

Once again please bare with me here.

Ok so I had to buy a usb mic jack because my laptop doesnt have one. It works fine, my mic picks up fine but I automatically can hear myself speaking into the mic as soon as I plug it in to the usb jack, before even opening OBS.
When in OBS, I would like to be able to monitor myself so I can hear the effects of the mic filters and tweak them accordingly, but for some reason it doesnt do anything. There must be some kind of setting I need to adjust and thats why I came here.

Can anyone help me with how to make it so I can hear my self in OBS so I can tweak the mic filters to my liking? I'm on Windows 11 if that helps with anything.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Ok so I had to buy a usb mic jack because my laptop doesnt have one. It works fine, my mic picks up fine but I automatically can hear myself speaking into the mic as soon as I plug it in to the usb jack, before even opening OBS.

That means you have an Operating System/driver configuration setup causing that. Sounds annoying and undesirable, to me.
With OBS Studio not running (note: ie OBS Studio Process not running at Operating System level, ie not started. This does NOT mean minimized, or you aren't currently doing something in OBS, but it is running)

I've avoided Win11 due to Microsoft's 20+ yr history with every other desktop OS release (starting with WinME... ie PoS)... anyway, I believe still similar. For Operating System, Start -> Sounds, and presuming (still) MS still hasn't moved everything over, Control Panels -> Sounds [On Win10 I've had to go into both]. You also need to understand/check driver settings, as well as any background processes you have running (none of us can tell you what your computer came setup with or with you or others have setup on your specific computer, and OBS Studio log [pinned post in this forum] won't provide that sort of info)

When in OBS, I would like to be able to monitor myself so I can hear the effects of the mic filters and tweak them accordingly, but for some reason it doesnt do anything. There must be some kind of setting I need to adjust and thats why I came here.


Can anyone help me with how to make it so I can hear my self in OBS so I can tweak the mic filters to my liking? I'm on Windows 11 if that helps with anything.

OBS Studio has Monitor (and Output ... ie to Stream/Recording) however, my understanding on older OBS Studio is that Monitor does NOT including filters/effects. I could be very wrong, so do NOT take this as authoritative... but I believe the old process was adjust filters/effect, test and locally record, listen, repeat as required
lots of discussions on this in this forum regarding this

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

oh, and you should look into changing subject line to "audio monitoring" as monitoring could be system level hardware resource utilization, or other preview type activity (incl video)