Question / Help 'Hollow' sound during stream [SOLVED]

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HonorguyXNL

Member
Hi all,

For some reason I have weird, hollow-ish sound since yesterday. I have been looking around but the last thread I managed to find dated to 2012 and was on the other OBS. But as running the MP one that just didn't cut it.

Best thing is to just give the logs and a stream sample where I noticed it way too late that i had this error.

Log: https://gist.github.com/939d0ff3277ff238ad31 (This was a local recording test with the same effect)
Stream VOD: http://www.twitch.tv/thegaminglawnl/v/26250646

Issue: It sound like I am in a bathroom or anything like that, it's hollow. Gives the idea I am using those old horrible stereo 1.0 speakers from back in the day. Which I am not.. I am using the G930 Logitech Gaming Headset which runs on 7.1

Ofcourse I went to check on recent changes in OBS or something with sound. All I had to re-do was the CLR Browser plugin. I tried a fresh reinstall of OBS before posting again and making sure the plugins were gone but that didn't cut it.

If there's more info needed, don't hesitate to ask!
 
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sam686

Member
in log file, I might go by what google translate goes by... Luidsprekers = speakers, microfoon = microphone...

I hope "Luidsprekers" and "microfoon" isn't both picking up your microphone at the same time. If it is, it will produce echo, or otherwise poor quality. Only 1 green meter in the audio area should go up whenever it picks up a loud sound.
 
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HonorguyXNL

Member
sam686 said:
in log file, I might go by what google translate goes by... Luidsprekers = speakers, microfoon = microphone...

I hope "Luidsprekers" and "microfoon" isn't both picking up your microphone at the same time. If it is, it will produce echo, or otherwise poor quality. Only 1 green meter in the audio area should go up whenever it picks up a loud sound.
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Nope those were in order. Correct translation btw :)

Luidspreker = Speakers
Microfoon = Microphone
 
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sam686

Member
Maybe in OBS mixer, mute all except the mic, does OBS recordings capture just your microphone fine?

Then unmute everything, and just mute your microphone, does that capture everything except your microphone?
 
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HonorguyXNL

Member
Okay after another day of digging I found the issue. This was all on Logitech' software. 100% their software. When I went digging around more in even the Windows sound settings I found out that Windows now recognized my headset as stereo. (which is kinda correct but not as it's intended). With this it decided to add another layer of the virtual 7.1 surround creating effectively 2 times the sound. You feel it, speaker-ish sound! Though I didn't hear that, recordings did. Since I don't actively record at this time I didn't notice it was in programs as Dxtory aswell.

All in all, this got solved. 100% on logitech. I downloaded some old software and disabled the auto-update in the Logitech Gaming Software. Now everything is alright again.
 
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DomTL

New Member
Hi, I know this thread is 3 years old but using Logitech Surround Sound can also cause issues with this hollowed out distortion effect you are hearing on the output files. To simply fix the issue is to disable the Surround Sound and it should be golden!
 
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exon_tiger

New Member
DomTL said:
Hi, I know this thread is 3 years old but using Logitech Surround Sound can also cause issues with this hollowed out distortion effect you are hearing on the output files. To simply fix the issue is to disable the Surround Sound and it should be golden!
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Well you helped me ;) so thanks.
 
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Duderandom

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I LOVE YOU ALL. I know this is an old thread but the problem keeps popping in 2020. All this time and the problem was the headphones virtualization in the Logitech headphones property
 
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