Question / Help Microphone Audio Mostly Left Side

[B Button Bits]

Hi everyone! First off, I would like to give my thanks for the amazing development/support team that monitors this forum. I have learned so much and have solved so many problems by looking up past posts.

I'm having an issue with microphone audio. For some reason, when using OBS, my microphone audio mostly records to the left side. However, it seems like there is a little bit of audio in the right speaker as well.

I've tried checking the "Force Microphone to Mono" setting, and nothing changed. I have an AT2020 XLR microphone that I hook up through an M-Audio USB audio interface. I also tried hooking it up without the interface (through a Yamaha brand mixer) and plugging it straight into my laptop's built in audio card. This gave me the same issue.

Game audio, notifications, etc, come through evenly on both sides.

I'm not a techie, so I'm really sorry if there is an obvious fix. I've been trying off and on for about 3 days to fix this on my own, but I just can't figure it out. Thank you so much for your help and I look forward to hearing back from you guys.

 

[Lain]

If "force mic to mono" doesn't work then there's something unusual going on because that does make it mono. I would have to see a video of the problem however.

 

[FerretBomb]

Was having a similar issue with the mic panning between the channels seemingly at random, did end up forcing the mic to mono. Funny bit is, my mic is already mono, on a hardware level.

 

[B Button Bits]

Hi Jim, thank you for your response. I uploaded a video of my problem. I'm a little perplexed, as my microphone is a mono microphone. Any help is appreciated, thank you so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtBNdUwUp8&feature=youtu.be

EDIT: Also, it seems like I'm wrong about even the slightest bit of audio coming from the right side. It seems like it doesn't come from the right at all. Thanks again!

 

[Lain]

I have no clue. If "force mic to mono" isn't working then I have no idea why that would be happening and the most important thing I need to note here is that I've never heard of this happening before (over the past two years).

Also, I was the one who wrote the "force mic to mono" way back when, and there's no possible way it would have this occur. I'm somewhat convinced that there's something wrong with the configuration somewhere, either with windows itself or with the mic somewhere.

Please show me a log file. https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/problem-make-sure-to-post-a-log-and-or-crash-dump-howto.97/

 

[B Button Bits]

Thank you so much for your help. I'm sure this is user error, and not a problem with OBS itself. I am just stumped as to what it could be though.

Here is the log file:
http://pastebin.com/wEELisUk

 

[Lain]

Well, let's see.. you're using "Line (3- M-Audio FastTrack)" in three places at once it seems.

Desktop audio:
15:55:23: ------------------------------------------
15:55:23: Using desktop audio input: Line (3- M-Audio FastTrack)

Mic audio:
15:55:23: ------------------------------------------
15:55:23: Using auxilary audio input: Line (3- M-Audio FastTrack)

And you even have it on your webcam somehow:
15:55:23: ------------------------------------------
15:55:23: device: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920,
15:55:23: device id \\?\usb#vid_046d&pid_082d&mi_00#7&2352c2c2&0&0000#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\{bbefb6c7-2fc4-4139-bb8b-a58bba724083},
15:55:23: chosen type: I420, usingFourCC: false, res: 1920x1080 - 1920x1080, frameIntervals: 333333-2000000
15:55:23: use buffering: false - 0, fourCC: 'I420'
15:55:23: audio device: Line (3- M-Audio FastTrack), <-------------

You probably only want to use that device once. I'm not sure how on earth you're using it 3 times. I've never even heard of M-Audio FastTrack before. I also don't see any mention of a real mic anywhere. just "Line (3- M-Audio FastTrack)" each time.