OBS and Zoom Audio Help Needed

[deg2023]

After several weeks of working with OBS, multiple cameras, and two audio sources, I have everything working to teach bass guitar lessons online. However, I’m having an issue with audio when using Zoom.

The audio coming out of the computer has latency that interferes with my timing when playing the bass. I resolved that by listening with headphones directly from the physical mixer going into my laptop.

The problem, during a zoom meeting, is audio for the person on the other end is coming through the computer speaker If I have headphones on, I can’t hear them. Even with headphones off it’s hard to hear the other person.

Hoping someone can help me as this is the last step of having the system completed. Thank you.

Dave

 

[AaronD]

See what you can do to get ALL of your RAW sources available in that external mixer: mic, guitar, remote people, etc. Likewise for all of the individual destinations: OBS, remote people, headphones, etc. Then do all of your audio work in the external mixer and not in OBS at all.

You might need a bigger mixer and several different sound cards. Each app uses a different sound card, which connects to different channels on the mixer.

The idea is that OBS only sees what it absolutely needs to produce the finished stream and/or recording. Finished soundtrack in, raw videos out if you have them. No processing whatsoever in OBS either way. It's all in the external mixer.

I do that with a hybrid local and remote meeting, except that my mixer is a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation, essentially a complete sound studio in one app - on the same machine, with a bunch of different loopbacks or "virtual sound cards" if you will.

 

[deg2023]

All audio sources I am using are running into a physical mixer and then to my laptop-OBS. I monitor from the external mixer. With this method, I can’t hear the party on the other end.

Should forget the computer audio and host the call over a phone line and feed it into the external mixer?

 

[AaronD]

All audio sources I am using are running into a physical mixer and then to my laptop-OBS. I monitor from the external mixer. With this method, I can’t hear the party on the other end.

Run that into the mixer too. Put EVERYTHING in the mixer, no matter what it is. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING goes there. That's where the requirement for multiple sound cards comes from, so you can still keep them separate.

This is the cheapest I know of that still does a good job:

Behringer | Product | UCA202

www.behringer.com

Amazon.com

There are of course, cheaper than that, but I wouldn't trust them for anything beyond a casual consumer.

Get as many of those as you need to keep the apps separate, and each app is set to use a different one.