horrible microphone input on HP laptop (Envy)

[matt47]

It took me ages to find out, why my HP Envy cannot record audio in a sports hall. I tried different setups, I purchased five different microphones and tried the built-in. At home my test setup always was fine, but when I start to livestream a basketball game - all mics only provide quirking squeezing fractals of sound.

The solution is quite simple: Open "MyHP" on the Laptop, go to your device and then to the audio section. In the microphone/input section DISABLE "KI NOISE REDUCTION".

My request to the OBS team is: could you check if such function is enabled and bring a popup warning? May you can also request windows to only give a "clean microphone stream" to OBS?

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

1. thanks for reminding others to check their Operating System audio path
2. I suspect that with the large range of potential such driver/OEM audio 'effects' it would be quite a challenge to check for many/most, much less identify the problematic ones (which could be an issue in some circumstances, and a benefit in others)

As this is a development suggestion, vs a support request/question, this from a forum perspective, I suspect, belongs in the Idea and Suggestions forum. And with nature of OBS Studio development, I suspect more attention would be made to a github submission, vs forum post.. (but that is only a guess)