Question / Help Muffled audio in recordings and on stream (with video examples)

[miba54]

Hey everyone,

I'm getting muffled audio in recordings and streams. All sound just comes out muffled. To my ears, as I'm playing a game or watching a video, everything sounds fine but when I record it or stream it, the sound is all muffled on stream or in the recording. I'll provide two examples in order to make my point clearer, and maybe they'll help you pinpoint the issue.

Here is a video with spoken audio: https://youtu.be/UEfP1OKKz_Q
And here is my recording of it: https://streamable.com/ucuj5

Here is a video with in-game sounds: https://youtu.be/hVfNCihqVqY?t=2m30s
And here is my recording of it: https://streamable.com/3mfwn

Each recording is 25 seconds long. Please listen to them and you'll hear the difference between the actual sound of the video and the muffled audio in my recordings.

I'm attaching a log file. If necessary, I can provide screenshots of my Windows audio settings as well. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[AccountingNightmare]

I'm still pretty new to understanding OBS logs, but I don't see any recording attempts in that log. Recording attempts are useful because it gives more information in the logs about your settings.

 

[miba54]

I'm still pretty new to understanding OBS logs, but I don't see any recording attempts in that log. Recording attempts are useful because it gives more information in the logs about your settings.

Sorry about that. Here's one with a recording attempt.

 

[AccountingNightmare]

Hmm I can't find anything weird in your log sorry. Perhaps try switching the sample rate to 44.1khz in the audio settings to see if that helps? Also, do you have a microphone? You could check if that also gets affected by this issue. Also double-check that there's no audio filters applied atm by clicking the cog next to Desktop Audio and clicking Filters.

Also just a sidenote, this is unrelated to your problem but I recommend changing your output format from mp4 to mkv. There's no change in quality, but mkv recordings can be recovered if there's an unexpected problem (like a crash or power loss) while mp4 files usually can't. You can turn it into an mp4 later (with no quality loss) in OBS by going to File -> Remux Recordings.

 

[Fragzin]

Did you ever find a fix for this? I'm having the same issue

 

[Ender_Monster]

I have the same issue

 

[MadFordpetal8]

I'm having the same issue. it records with my mic loud and clear, but it doesn't record my game audio. i want the different audios on their own tracks, so i don't want to use my mic to record both. but i don't know what else to do.

 

[iholland]

I have the same issue. I am using OBS to stream content to Zoom. Videos with music sound fine in OBS directly - but not in OBS created recordings of same or of the stream sent to Zoom - same muffled sound as the above examples. I have tried the "disable signal enhancement" 'fix' suggested in older posts.

 

[iholland]

Thanks Cyclemat - the AAC encoder is loaded successfully according to the OBS log. Is there some setting I need to use to 'activate' it?

 

[iholland]

My Encoder settings are currently "Software (x264)"

 

[dracondas]

I'm having the same issue. it records with my mic loud and clear, but it doesn't record my game audio. i want the different audios on their own tracks, so i don't want to use my mic to record both. but i don't know what else to do.

for this if you did put them in separate tracks i get em back together by putting em in premiere pro and i hear everything well