Question / Help More Blue Snowball issues

Chandler Neubert

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So I've been watching the forums, and I've noticed a very common issue with the Blue Snowball microphone, one which I am experiencing myself.
My best guess is that I just have something wrong in my setup of OBS, but my mic will randomly cut out and not pick anything up until I unplug it and plug it back in. The light stays on, showing that it is still receiving power, but it stops broadcasting to any sources, and any program (Skype, Steam, even Windows itself.) This only happens when I'm streaming / recording with OBS.
In my logs I've noticed that "Audio timestamp for device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' was behind target timestamp by 35."
I've looked here on the forums, and the only two "fixes" I've found have been to raise the scene buffering time until the issue stops occurring, but mine is already up to 10000, and the problem persists, so....
Yeah.
The other supposed fix I've found has been to disable the Mic QPC Timestamps, as that only helps in specific instances.
I've attached my log, so hopefully that will help to isolate the problem. Any help would be great.
And yes, I know my settings are a mess, but this is the only way I've been able to stream anything without it constantly dropping frames.
 

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Your log file is only six lines long. Attach the whole thing, or copy and paste the text from it into a spoiler tag.

That said, "they" need to make good cheap USB microphones like they used to. My Logitech one that is out of production works like a charm and sounds great, they used to go for $10 but now they can only be found on ebay used for far more.
 
Having a scene buffering time that high is likely to cause more problems than it solves, set it back to 700.

It looks like the mic is disconnecting for some reason and OBS is having to try and re-grab it. Maybe try a different USB port.
 
After lowering it to 700, it's still disconnecting.
I didn't notice this in the other logs, but now this is showing up
14:09:25: SharedTexCapture hooked
14:11:53: Audio device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' has been lost, attempting to reinitialize
14:11:54: Device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' reacquired.
14:16:22: Audio device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' has been lost, attempting to reinitialize
14:16:23: Device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' reacquired.
14:19:49: Audio device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' has been lost, attempting to reinitialize
14:19:50: Device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' reacquired.
14:35:20: Audio device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' has been lost, attempting to reinitialize
14:35:21: Device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' reacquired.
14:39:57: Total frames encoded: 54823, total frames duplicated: 457 (0.83%)
14:39:57: Total frames rendered: 54802, number of late frames: 82 (0.15%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
 
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