Question / Help Microphone has stopped working in OBS Studio only

[Dave Wilson]

I'm running the newest OBS Studio and did a Live stream last night just fine.

Today I got home from work, simply added a new Scene, a Media Source which is nothing more than 14 second log animation with audio in .mp4 format.

I proceeded to do a short 30 second test stream only to discover my microphone is working any more. Except, it works fine in other applications.

My current log file is here;

https://gist.github.com/e914a153f1ae6fef15946ceb462e8674

Any insights would be great! And yes, I've tried turning things off and back on again.

Thanks.

 

[Suslik V]

Make sure that you don't messed up with mic sources (one from you webcam, next is PC build-in mic jack-in, and one more is external USB mic).

 

[Dave Wilson]

Yeah I've double and triple checked all that. Like I said, I streamed fine the night before, then this happened. Other than adding that scene I didn't make any changes to anything.

 

[Suslik V]

Do you see green level bar 'dancing' at OBS Studio Mixer list when you speak to your mic?

 

[Dave Wilson]

Nope. But I do when I open the Windows Audio recording optons. So I know it's working. It's just OBS that isn't acknowledging it.

 

[Suslik V]

Do you even see you mic in Mixers list? Because if you select your mic in Settings>Audio (as one of the Mic/Aux devices, not default) then it become global source. But if you want mic only in one scene - you need to add 'Audio Input Capture' source (choose device in its properties) into Sources list. Then you may clone this source to other scenes via Add Existing option.

 

[Dave Wilson]

So, to answer your question, yes I was able to see it in all fields it might show up in. Yet no matter how I selected things it would not come back. After doing some test recordings it almost sounded like it was activating with the recording, but was just muted. I could the click of it being enabled at the start of the recording on playback. Yet all volumes were up and nothing was muted.

In the end, I backed up my profiles folders, Un-Installed OBS, re-Installed OBS, copied my profile folders back and now everything is working again.

Would be nice to know what happened though so that if it happens again maybe I can just fix a setting in two seconds instead of spending 10-20 minutes redoing it all.