Mic Audio Driving me nuts.

Jerbear197

Jerbear197

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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening everyone.

Newbie to OBS and in my 70th year so please be kind...

Can someone PLEASE take a look at this video and explain to me what the heck is going on.
https://youtu.be/t4c24LhmTpk
My issue is with my USB Mic not working/not working alongside a webcam with built in mic.

I hope the video helps explain it.
 
See pinned post in this forum, or in my .sig, for posting an OBS Studio log from a Recording/Streaming session so we can review your OBS settings

Have you tried using, with OBS Studio NOT running (not in the background, I do mean NOT running) checking the USB mic in a native OS app, like Windows Recorder? My go to recommendation is to make sure (know, not hope ;^) the audio and video sources working correctly at the Operating System (OS) level first, then work with those same devices in OBS Studio. Then make sure permissions are set correctly.
I'd recommend going into control panel/sound and disabling the webcam mic and testing the other USB mic to make sure what you are hearing isn't all from the webcam mic
In case any of these older articles help - OBS Audio related articles
 
Lawrence_SoCal said:
See pinned post in this forum, or in my .sig, for posting an OBS Studio log from a Recording/Streaming session so we can review your OBS settings

Have you tried using, with OBS Studio NOT running (not in the background, I do mean NOT running) checking the USB mic in a native OS app, like Windows Recorder? My go to recommendation is to make sure (know, not hope ;^) the audio and video sources working correctly at the Operating System (OS) level first, then work with those same devices in OBS Studio. Then make sure permissions are set correctly.
I'd recommend going into control panel/sound and disabling the webcam mic and testing the other USB mic to make sure what you are hearing isn't all from the webcam mic
In case any of these older articles help - OBS Audio related articles
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I will check out these links shortly. I have tested outside of OBS and everything works fine. As for disabling the webcam mic I can see no way of doing that either in OBS or Windows.
 
Jerbear197 said:
Listening to it back now using the link I posted and it sounds just fine to me.....maybe I'm not the only one with audio issues. lol
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It has a ton of bass, which "blocks" or "masks" the intelligible speech range. I don't have a convenient highpass filter at the moment; that might clear it right up, as would a set of 1/2" laptop speakers that are barely capable of the intelligible speech range and not much else.

Do be aware that some people watch your content on rigs that are easily capable of delivering a "personal rock concert" in terms of volume and frequency response, and they don't necessarily have any more control of it than just volume. They won't reproduce something that you don't send them, so try not to send them any more than what you actually intend.

The typical thing to do in live audio, is to run a separate highpass filter on absolutely everything (including bass instruments), and set each one by ear to as high a frequency as you can get away with, without actually affecting the intended sound. (bass instruments will have it set lower, sopranos higher) And sometimes I've intentionally set it high enough to make an audible difference, to try and clear up a mumbling junior-high actor in a play for example.

Aggressive highpassing takes care of both "stage mud" and the mics' "proximity effect", which causes all directional mics to become more sensitive to lower frequencies when they're close to the source.
 
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In the Recording tab of the Control Panel's Sound module you should see the Webcam mic. Right click on it and select "Disable" then change the Webcam's Audio setting in OBS to the desired source. Hopefully your problem is solved.
OBS Webcam mic.png
 
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