Question / Help Mic is picking up desktop audio. echo

[beaniebrandon]

HI, I have been experiencing an issue with my audio on OBS. This problem is creating an echo of my game audio but not my voice. my mic is picking up my desktop audio. If i turn my desktop volume (actual desktop volume, not desktop audio slider in OBS) off its fine. OBS picks up game audio normally and my mic works fine then, but obviously I cant hear my own computer that way. so other than that I haven't find a solution or loophole around that. I am using a headset. pls help.

 

[beaniebrandon]

and no I dont have any programs other than OBS open that would duplicate the noise.

 

[RoBoLoGy]

Also having the same problem. I use a headset so it's not speakers or anything. I have everything muted in the obs mixer and my mic is not set to be a playback device in any windows / realtek settings. But if I play an MP3 for example ... the mic bar starts to move slightly.

I did have a +20db gain in the windows setting and I lowered that back down to zero, then went to OBS and added +20gain there to my +5gain I already had as a filter. This helped some, but the bar still moves.

I've seen many people with this problem yet I haven't found a 'real' solution yet. All I can recommend is lowering your mic as much as you can through windows and letting OBS make your mic louder through gain.

 

[SumDim]

Here's what I do to take total control of my audio.

In Windows sound:
Set default device for the playback (your headset)
Set default device for the recording (your mic)
Disable all input and output audio devices

Audio Monitor Device:
In OBS Settings | Advanced set Audio Monitor Device to be the headphones

OBS Audio Category
Sample rate 44.1 to save 10% off CPU processing. We aren't recording a music concert.
Turn all the audio devices and mic/aux audio devices to Disabled

Scene Sources
Audio input capture is my mic
Audio output capture is my headphones

OBS Mixer
Mute the webcam. No need for it to pick up any sound.
Advanced audio properties
- Headphones are set to Monitor and Output: everything flows through this playback device, only Track 1 enabled
- Mic is set to Monitor Only (mute output), only Track 1 enabled
- Webcam is set to Monitor Only (mute output), Volume 0, no tracks enabled

 

[GymBody]

Tried you settings and my echo from the 3 min test recording is gone. Thanks man you are a life saver. In the future all i have to do is change some settings if i ever add a mic and i am good to go. Truly thank you.

 

[vino]

I have a question about the same thing. but i'm using voicemeeter. might you help plz?

 

[Xv Psychotic vX]

so are the above settings the same if i do not want my mic picking up on the desktop audio? Basically im trying to play music through youtube but it players through my monitor speakers and i cant mute it without muting desktop audio

 

[dorthak]

Here's what I do to take total control of my audio.

I was having some echo issues, and your advice completely cleared that. Thanks!

However, doesn't doing this:

OBS Audio Category
Sample rate 44.1 to save 10% off CPU processing. We aren't recording a music concert.
Turn all the audio devices and mic/aux audio devices to Disabled

mean there's no desktop audio going to the stream? I do want game sounds and such in-stream. How do I put that back without getting echo again? I'm using headphones, so feedback through the air isn't an issue, I just need to avoid internal echos. Sorry if this is obvious, I'm brand new to OBS.

 

[Fafo2710]

It didn't work for me :( What other could be the problem?

 

[LilithQueen95]

I replicated the settings and didn't worked for me, it's super weird :(

 

[kwit1392]

Those settings didn't work for me either. These settings did it for me.

IN OBS
Desktop Audio - Default
Mic/Aux Audio - Microphone
In Advance Audio Properties - all 6 tracks check marked for all audio tracks.

IN WINDOWS SETTINGS
Disable all mics/speakers that aren't being used
Go to settings, devices, Bluetooth and other devices and disable any other microphones or speakers not in use. (My webcam shows up under audio, do not disable)

Then go back to Settings, click system, go to sound, make sure the correct output and input devices are selected. Then on the right hand side click sound control panel. Click Recording. Then click the microphone you are using (should have a green check mark), click properties. Another box will pop up, click VoizReal Exp, and click Noise Suppression box so a checkmark appears. Hit Apply then OK. Click Apply again in the Sound control panel and then OK. Reopen OBS and test audio.

 

[jganeshram]

Follow this image for fix. just disable other settings only have below and try. It worked for me.

 

[JustHaven!]

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I don't get what you're trying to show in the image.


Also I'm getting annoyed with this thing because my microphone says it isn't picking up audio in settings either than my voice, but in obs it's picking up my computer audio somehow. None of the fixes above worked.

 

[tektorss]

I'm having the same problem. Everything was working fine until I turned it on today. I'm using headphones, and even when I mute the mic the track still moves with the game audio. It will also simultaneously pick up my voice. I have no clue what happened, but for some reason my mic channel is reading audio from two sources. This program is useless to me until I can resolve that issue, and I shouldn't have to tweak 50 settings in Windows because the damn thing worked yesterday!

 

[AaronD]

I solved the problem by following this video

Ah! Yep! The default processing - in the audio driver, not OBS - to make a conference call work on speakerphone, doesn't know that the mic can't hear the speakers. So it tries to subtract the speakers from the mic...which is the same as adding the inverse, which sounds exactly the same when there's nothing for it to cancel.
It's supposed to figure that out, as part of figuring out what the acoustics are that it also needs to account for, but I guess it doesn't always go far enough to see that it really needs nothing.

At any rate, always look through ALL of the settings, everywhere, understand what they do, and make the unconscious machine work for you, not the other way around. Anything that is not "a straight dumb wire" between the raw source and OBS, needs to go away. If something is there by default and hidden, find it (because you're going through everything anyway) and turn it off.

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