Question / Help Muting mic doesn't work

[Tangyman77]

At first, the problem I am having seems very simple to solve, but I am just not sure why it is so hard to solve. I recently tried using Stremlabs OBS and while I was using it I made a second mic that would unmute if I held the "pause key". My default mic would then mute as I pressed the key, making it easy to switch to the other mic (they're really just the same mic except the other mic has an effect on it). On Streamlabs this system worked, however when I switched back to OBS and put in the same exact settings, it doesn't work. Instead of the first mic muting and the second mic unmuting when I hold the pause key, it just does nothing. All of my other hotkeys work except for these. If anyone has an idea as to what I am missing please tell me because I am getting very annoyed. Thank you.

(Both mics are set to the same microphone)

 

[carlmmii]

Are you sure OBS is pulling the correct audio "device" for your altered mic source? I'm wondering if the double-duty pause hotkey actions are working as intended, but just switching between two identical audio feeds.

 

[Tangyman77]

Are you sure OBS is pulling the correct audio "device" for your altered mic source? I'm wondering if the double-duty pause hotkey actions are working as intended, but just switching between two identical audio feeds.

The first mic source is set to my snowball and the second one is set to my "default" which is my snowball. I have also thought of this being an answer but if it were, I would have now way to fix it because my snowball is the only mic I have.

 

[carlmmii]

Just trying to get to the bottom of things... let's check things off.

1. How are you including your mic sources? Are you setting your mic devices, or are you including audio sources within each scene?
2. What actually happens when you press the pause key? Are you getting no audio, or does it appear that no change is made at all?
3. How are you getting the "effect" on the mic, and is it actually working as intended?
4. If you completely remove your "effect" mic, does pressing the pause hotkey actually work to mute your "normal" mic?
5. If you use a different hotkey, do you see the same effect?

 

[Tangyman77]

Just trying to get to the bottom of things... let's check things off.

1. How are you including your mic sources? Are you setting your mic devices, or are you including audio sources within each scene?
2. What actually happens when you press the pause key? Are you getting no audio, or does it appear that no change is made at all?
3. How are you getting the "effect" on the mic, and is it actually working as intended?
4. If you completely remove your "effect" mic, does pressing the pause hotkey actually work to mute your "normal" mic?
5. If you use a different hotkey, do you see the same effect?

1. I have my mic devices set so they work for all scenes, as shown here.

2. When I press the pause key, no change is made at all, the first one stays muted and the second one stays unmuted.
3. The way I have the effect is I have a gain on my second mic set to 30 dB that way it has a "crisp" sound when I talk into it (also it will kill your eardrums), and yes the effect works as intended.
4. I tested removing the second mic source so when I held down the pause key it should mute the first one, when I held down pause it did nothing to the first one.
5. I switched the hotkey from "pause" to "M" and it still has the same effect, nothing happens, the first mic stays unmuted and the second mic stays muted.

Even though none of these tests worked, I am very grateful that you took the time out of your day to think this problem out with me, it seriously means a lot to me after I have been trying to fix this for a week now... I will still try to find more answers and I'll update this thread if I find one. As of now, it seems like the hotkeys for "push-to-mute" and "push-to-talk" just do not work at all, which is strange seeing that it is an actual feature within OBS.

 

[Tangyman77]

I fixed it... It turns out the solution was pretty easy. The first thing I did was I removed my two mics entirely from OBS, in order to get a fresh start. Next I added back my first mic and set it to my snowball. After that I scrolled down to the hotkey section of the audio tab in settings, which is shown below, and I enabled "Push-to-mute" on my first mic.

When I first set the "push-to-mute" key to "pause" in my microphone's hotkeys, I had not known about this place, so I did not have my "Push-to-mute" enabled before-hand. This is the reason why nothing happened when I held the "pause" key, it was because the setting was never activated in the first place. After I had done that I set the gain of my original mic to 5 dB and I repeated the same steps I had done to set up my first mic only this time I set the second mic to 30 dB. When I was finished I applied the changes and exited out. The final thing I had to do was right-click on OBS and hit "Run as Administrator". And that's it! Now if I hold down the pause key it will mute my normal mic and switch to the funny one, and when I let go it will go back to the normal one! Thank you so much for the help Carlmmii, now if you excuse me I have to go destroy some ear drums...

 

[carlmmii]

Haha, glad you got things working!

Btw, I'm totally not stealing this idea for myself.... nope. Not at all.