Question / Help Listen to Master sound as it upstreams

Ronald Cz

Ronald Cz

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Is there a way to listen to what is being upstreamed without hearing it through the computer? For instance I have a mic with a radio playing plugged into the back pink mic jack. When I turn off the radio slider in OBS I can still hear it from the computer in my headphones. I want to only hear what OBS is putting out not what the computer has coming in through the mic ports. -
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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OBS has a setting that lets you hear the audio that OBS is including, for every device that has monitoring on:

Edit > Advanced Audio Properties

Sources have 3 settings: Monitor, Monitor and Output, Output Only

Which device sound is sent to when monitoring is on is defined in:

Settings > Audio > Monitoring Device

Warning! This device should NOT be your system default, especially if you are capturing Windows' default device, because this will cause echoes.

For more precise control over what OBS captures and what you hear, install Voicemeeter:

https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...nagement-for-1-and-2-pc-streaming-setups.397/
 
Ronald Cz

Ronald Cz

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The Monitoring Device is key, your right! I am using OBS for Live Event Streaming whereby I need multiple cameras on the panel discussion but only one audio into the sound card. Switching between cameras changes which audio of that camera currently on the action is playing the sound.

I have two Pink mic inputs and one blue line in, therefore I can only distinguish between three sounds coming in to OBS.

IF I bought an external audio hardware and brought in 8 inputs would OBS recognize those separately in OBS? Would I be able to use the external audio hardware to Monitor what is being streamed?

https://focusrite.com/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-18i20
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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OBS will see the first 2 channels of that.

For OBS to see multichannel, you need either for other software to manage those channels for you and output them to stereo channels that OBS can capture, or to use an ASIO device with the OBS-ASIO driver.

https://github.com/Andersama/obs-asio
 
Ronald Cz

Ronald Cz

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Yes, focusrite has Ableton control software to set up inputs as stereo, which then can be brought into OBS.

I see Voicemeeter Banana or Potato is only virtual software does not have any hardware so I would be limited to my three inputs of two mic and one line in.

I think focusrite is my best choice for increasing hardware inputs; but to send out monitoring channel I could use Voicemeeter.

How can I set up output ports for monitoring? I have surround sound ports in the back and a headphone in the front, could I set up voicemeeter to monitor what is being up streamed to one of these ports instead of hearing system device audio?
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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Set up OBS to send monitoring to a virtual device, and then have Voicemeeter send that audio to a hardware device (headphones). Voicemeeter takes over as the system default, which is why you can capture the default in OBS and then monitor on your primary hardware without causing echo.
 
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