Question / Help How to record microphone in seperate file?

koala

koala

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OBS will always write all data, video and audio, into one file only. Never in different files.

This file has an internal structure, where the video data stream and the several audio streams are identifiable as so-called tracks. One video track and several audio tracks. Several if you actually record multiple audio tracks. The guide you mentioned explains how to set up your system so that your physical audio sources end up as their own tracks in the resulting file along with the video.

After the recording, you load the video file into an appropriate post-processing software where you can access the several tracks. Most audio post-processing software (for example Audacity) is actually able to load video files and process the audio tracks it contains. There is also software that is able to extract the audio tracks and write them to extra files (for example avidemux) and merge them back into the video file.

Usually, you don't want to keep separate files for the original recording of each data type, because some time in the editing, you need to synchronize them so no audio is behind or ahead of the video or the audio from another track. This is more easy, if the tracks are always kept together with each other in the original file.
 
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Toxic13

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Thanks for clarification. I want this because I want to post-process my mic audio to remove noise. So what you are telling is that, If I setup multiple tracks then in advanced video editing software like VEGAS 15 it will show up with multiple audio tracks. Can you tell me what to do to setup multiple tracks and assign each of them to a device (e.g. mic) or aplication (e.g. discord/game) because this guide is little bit confusing.
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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Edit > Advanced Audio Properties

For each source in the scene you're looking at, there are checkboxes for each track. Checking a box assigns a given source to a given track. Tracks can contain multiple sources, and sources can appear on multiple tracks.

It can be useful, for instance, to have many, if not all, sources isolated on their own tracks, but also to have one track with all sources included-- this is useful when streaming, for instance, since streaming does NOT support multiple tracks-- only recording does.

It is also useful to note if you use the NDI plugin for anything, that it only pays attention to Track 1.
 
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Toxic13

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Now I don't have any audio in my recordings...
Did this vvvvvv and my audio just dissapeared even tho it shows that audio is playing through all channels
 

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Toxic13

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Narcogen said:
Edit > Advanced Audio Properties

For each source in the scene you're looking at, there are checkboxes for each track. Checking a box assigns a given source to a given track. Tracks can contain multiple sources, and sources can appear on multiple tracks.

It can be useful, for instance, to have many, if not all, sources isolated on their own tracks, but also to have one track with all sources included-- this is useful when streaming, for instance, since streaming does NOT support multiple tracks-- only recording does.

It is also useful to note if you use the NDI plugin for anything, that it only pays attention to Track 1.
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Okay so I put my file into editing software (Sony VEGAS 15) and I got 7 audio tracks instead of 3
 

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Toxic13

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I AM SO F*N FRUSTRATED!!!! I think I have ran into every problem there is. Somehow managed to fix one and the next one appears. Now my issue is that every time I turn on OBS the sound completely disappears from my headphones. I have a weird headset that has 2 output devices - one outputs normal sound so I use it and other outputs distorted. When I turn on OBS the sound disappears but if I switch to the distorted audio device it shows that sound is still there. OBS is picking up sound but when it's turned on it makes my headphones deaf even tho there is still sound and it records it succesfully. WHAT DO I DO?
 
koala

koala

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You have a Bluetooth headset. Bluetooth headsets have 2 audio output devices: one high quality device for listening to music and one voice quality device for communications. Usually, the high quality device is active. If some app activates the mic, the headset switches to communication mode, that means it mutes the high quality device and activates the voice device and the mic device. That's a Bluetooth/Windows specific behavior, no OBS-specific stuff. This switch cannot be avoided and is present only with Bluetooth headsets. Ordinary USB and standard headsets don't do this.

Why this switch happens when you start OBS: In the default setup, OBS has the 2 audio devices configured: the "default" device for desktop audio and the "default" device for mic/aux. The default mic device is mapped to your Bluetooth headset by Windows. If you start OBS, OBS activates all audio devices to be able to record them. Thus, it activates your Bluetooth mic, which makes your Bluetooth headset switch to communication mode, which makes your current desktop audio device silent. Instead of the now silent device, the communication audio device is active and used as desktop audio.

How to prevent the switch: In Settings->Audio, set the Mic/Auxiliary device from default to disabled. This way, OBS doesn't know about the mic, so it never activates the mic, thus the headset will not switch to communication mode. You're unable to record your mic this way.

If you want to record your mic with OBS, touch luck: you have to keep the mic configured in OBS. In this case, you cannot avoid the headset switch from music mode to communication mode.
 
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salminho

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When I turn on OBS the sound disappears but if I switch to the distorted audio device it shows that sound is still there.
 
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