Question / Help Mic Magically Stopped Being Recording

Germaximus

Germaximus

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Update, Resolved: User error. I forgot the audio controls on the main overlay were actual controls. I thought they were display only. I must have accidentally muted my mic without realizing it.

Thank you Dping and OBS Staff! I'm sorry for being such an idiot.


Hello there,

I've been using OBS for awhile now and today all of the sudden my microphone is not recording any sound for my live stream. The microphone is detected in the Audio Device tab but it simply will not play back any noise for recording or even in the Preview.

I've tested with two of my microphones on Skype and other services where they work fine but neither one will play back any sound while in OBS only.

Can I please get some help?
 
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Germaximus said:
Hello there,

I've been using OBS for awhile now and today all of the sudden my microphone is not recording any sound for my live stream. The microphone is detected in the Audio Device tab but it simply will not play back any noise for recording or even in the Preview.

I've tested with two of my microphones and neither one will play back any sound while in OBS only.

I've tested the microphone in other services and it is working fine. Can I please get some help?
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can you check to make sure you dont have a hotkey setup for mic recording? if so, that key will need to be pressed.
 
Hotkey is not enabled. I have made zero changes since I live streamed last night. Started this morning and neither of my microphones will work with OBS only.

I've tried reinstalling OBS and uninstalling the CLR browser to see if maybe there was an issue there. Nothing changed.

I feel like this is extremely important and hope for some real assistance.
 
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Germaximus said:
Hotkey is not enabled. I have made zero changes since I live streamed last night. Started this morning and neither of my microphones will work with OBS only.

I've tried reinstalling OBS and uninstalling the CLR browser to see if maybe there was an issue there. Nothing changed.

I feel like this is extremely important and hope for some real assistance.
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If you do a local recording, can you hear the mic in VLC player when playing the video back?
 
Hi Dping,

I've tested two mics on multiple services as mentioned. It is only not working with OBS as of today, April 27th. Everything has been working perfectly fine with OBS until now. I have not changed any settings. Mics work great on other platforms including Skype, Media Player, Mumble, and so on.
 
Germaximus said:
Hi Dping,

I've tested two mics on multiple services as mentioned. It is only not working with OBS as of today, April 27th. Everything has been working perfectly fine with OBS until now. I have not changed any settings. Mics work great on other platforms including Skype, Media Player, Mumble, and so on.
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I read you said that, I want to try and rule out anything changing on twitch's side, can do you a quick local recording and test this? I only ask because another gent is having the same issue, and there hasn't been an update to OBS in a while. just trying to rule out the variables.
 
Update: User error. OBS was indeed muted. I must have mistakenly clicked on it at some point. Thank you!
 
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