Microphone problems

[Musicman 2]

Having problems with using the microphone int OBS. I selected audio capture input and my computer speaker realtek and completed this. But hear nothing , the audio bar is not registering when I'm talking. I watched videos and followed them , but their mike works. The Microphone on PC works fine.

 

[AaronD]

the audio bar is not registering

Then you have an input problem. OBS is not even getting it.

I selected audio capture input and my computer speaker realtek and completed this. But hear nothing

You didn't confuse it with the Output Capture, did you? So it's looking at what *leaves* the computer rather than what comes in?

You can test that by playing something, and seeing if OBS's meter lights up for that.

 

[Musicman 2]

Then you have an input problem. OBS is not even getting it.


You didn't confuse it with the Output Capture, did you? So it's looking at what *leaves* the computer rather than what comes in?

You can test that by playing something, and seeing if OBS's meter lights up for that.

I'm using audio input. They're may be another problem relating to computer and software here. On my other pc it works fine with obs and putting it on defaults like on this one. This is strange. Pc microphone works on other pc.

 

[AaronD]

On my other pc it works fine with obs and putting it on defaults like on this one.

"Default" is often a liability, beyond the initial fresh-install proof-of-working. It's meant to grab whatever you're already using at the moment, knowing nothing about your rig yet, but that exact same logic can betray you later.

If Windows thinks that you want to use something else and switches to it, OBS's "Default" setting follows that switch. If Windows is wrong (and it frequently is), then OBS is now looking at the wrong thing and "suddenly doesn't work, even though you haven't changed anything". Selecting a specific device in OBS, not "Default", stays on that device regardless.

Another possibility is that your mic is actually a different device than what you think. So then you tell OBS to look at the wrong thing.

If it's the mic input of a built-in sound card, or a cheap USB thing that uses that same chip with the same functions, then the analog preamp (before the conversion to digital so that OBS can work with it) is controlled by the operating system, not OBS. If that's set too low in Windows' audio settings, you'll have a hard time getting anything useful from it.

If it's an actually-serious audio interface, then it'll have a physical knob to control the preamp instead.