Question / Help I need some mixer feedback

[Deleted member 64443]

Hi there everybody!

I am planning on streaming with a 2 pc setup, but I can't seem to get the mixer part down. First of all, the setup that I am using is like this: http://imgur.com/tEZMlWy The only difference is that I am using a behringer 1204usb mixer, not the x1204usb model.

The problem: I bought a mixer to have more control over my microphone and stream pc/game pc audio. The mic part works fine. The rest does not work though. I get sound to OBS and through the mixer to my headphones and I can play around with it and it would seem that everything works at that moment. Yet, in OBS it outputs the audio like it would without a mixer, meaning I would have to use windows to change volume and stuff like that. Not really what I was going for when I bought a mixer. Can anybody tell me if I am missing anything here? Should I be looking at computer settings? Hardware? I am lost right now.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yeah, the way that is set up is so that you can HEAR the game on your headphones, but that audio doesn't go into the streaming PC.

There's VERY good reasons to do it that way.
-One, if you need to use an offset to sync your mic with your webcam. If you're running game audio through the mixer and into the streaming machine, it will ALSO be delayed, and there is NO WAY to delay the game video to re-sync it.
-Two, if your game audio is coming through the mixer, it will be unified into a single channel with the mic. There will be no way to see what your mic/game audio relative balance is.

A mixer is more meant for handling multiple microphones, and other sound inputs other than the console/gaming PC. Like if you have a music feed machine, soundboard, or FX loop stack.

If you really want to run the gaming PC audio through your mixer, per that chart, unplug cable 6 from the streaming PC (so you don't have duplicated audio). Then unmute channel 5/6 on the mixer with the button just at the top of the slider. It's a bad idea though, and will remove a lot of isolation and can cause more line noise, along with the A/V sync issue.

 

[Deleted member 64443]

Appreciate the comment very much! Guess I had the wrong idea in mind when I went for this setup then. Any thoughts on what I could alter hardware wise to make it so that my mixer controls the audio, without it screwing up sound quality if that's even possible?

 

[FerretBomb]

Not really. Again, the two reasons above NOT to run game audio through the mixer will still apply.

Really, just use the line-in volume slider on the streaming machine in OBS to set a good level for the gaming PC's audio, or set the Line In's Recording Device entry's 'level' slider in Windows to a lower level.

The only thing I could imagine would lose you the streaming PC's audio. So no hearing alerts, unless you just set up a set of speakers. They'd still go out on-stream though.
You could then get a dual 1/4"->3.5" minijack, plug it into the ALT OUT ports on the back, then plug that into the streaming machine's Line In. Mic would come in over the USB interface, while the gaming PC would come in over the line-in. At that point you would be able to hear the mic and gaming system on the headphone line-in.
I'd also advise using the dual XLR Main Out ports instead of the AUX Send for the mic audio to the gaming PC. At that point you'd just set the mic level with the slider, but that one's your call, as you might want the mic level on in-game VoIP to be set independently.

Again, I don't think this would be worthwhile. But your call.

 

[Deleted member 64443]

Allright, thank you very much for the comments. You have been really helpfull! :)