Question / Help Mic Echos and/or clashes with desktop audio [SOLVED]

Kiriya

Kiriya

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Well the problem is as shown as of title and i can't seem to find any related questions/problems on the forum or related articles. I have a 3.5mm mic and whenever i try to stream/record with desktop audio playing in the background, my microphone overloads and you'll here echos and microphone loss randomly. This does not happen if the audio is from my capture card which is quite weird. So is this problem with my microphone settings, or obs microphone setting, or the microphone itself?

P.S. I've tested it with 2 different mics, one being the ps4 free headset that came with the console, and another low end mic usually used for skype and video chats. Both have the same problems, and no i don't have the budget to afford a snowflake nor yeti or at2020 atm.

Edit: To elaborate more on the filters I'm currently using for my mic (since i didn't see it in the obs log)
Noise Suppression: -40 dB

Noise Gate:
Close Thres: -60dB
Open Thres: -54dB
Attk: 15ms
Hold: 50ms
Rele: 50ms

Noise Suppression: (Remove White Noise my laptop makes) -40dB

Compressor:
Ratio: 2
Thres: -40dB
Attk: 3ms
Rele: 100ms
Gain: 22dB

Compressor Limiter:
Ratio: 15
Thres: -4dB
Attk: 1ms
Rele: 100ms
Gain: 0dB
OBS Log

Sample Record with Desktop Audio

Sample Record with Capture Card
 
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wrice4

Member
Kiriya said:
Its at off at all times. So nope, I don't think that's causing the problem.
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I'm sorry I replied to the wrong thread, as I am on my phone. Sounds like you have some interference going on somewhere, but I am not sure. I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to looking at logs.
 
Kiriya

Kiriya

New Member
So i did a few more test runs, and it seems like as long as i don't use the default realtek audio drivers for both the microphone and audio output, it works fine. I think its the case of realtek drivers clashing on each other so a good way is to solve this solution is probably use a USB mic, or have a different mic driver other than realtek, or in my case use a second monitor and outsource the audio output from there to obs instead of the computers realtek driver.

If anybody else has a better solution, please let me know, thx!
 
Kiriya

Kiriya

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UPDATE: For those in the future who also has this same problem, try updating your realtek driver. I just did a scan and update for my drivers and that pretty much fixed all the problems listed above. It seems like old drivers are just not capable enough to load all those sound at the same time.
 
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