Question / Help OBS not recording mic

[maggie]

So obs studio will not record my mic when it is on a track by itself
ex.

Log for this one: https://gist.github.com/4c9e57ffa58b35d1308e569f4a02aa8d If it looks like this only desktop will record. but if it looks like this ex.

Log for this one: https://gist.github.com/110badc903f27038f3148ce2dacb67dd it'll record it's extremely frustrating.
Help would be very appreciated. I'm not sure if it's my mic or a bug in obs studio. thanks

 

[fatmatrow]

Did you make sure to select that audio track in the recording settings?

 

[maggie]

Im sure this is set correctly? If not please let me know ;=;

 

[fatmatrow]

You realize that you'll have to manually select the audio channel in whatever program you're using for playback

 

[maggie]

what do you mean? Like this?

Or am i confused by what you're asking?

 

[maggie]

Okay let me see if i can explain it better when I'm recording in game and that game has volume on My voice will not record. But if i turn off the volume of the game my voice Will record.

 

[Simes]

When you record multiple audio tracks in a video, and then play them back using VLC or similar player software, you will need to select which track you want to hear. It will not play them all at once. For your first example in the original post, your mic is being recorded to track 2. In order to hear the mic, you would need to select track 2 in VLC. In your second example, your mic is being recorded to track 1 along with your desktop audio. In this case, the player will play back track 1 by default, and you'll hear both.

Incidentally, recording more tracks to a file than you need will make the file bigger than it needs to be.

 

[maggie]

When you record multiple audio tracks in a video, and then play them back using VLC or similar player software, you will need to select which track you want to hear. It will not play them all at once. For your first example in the original post, your mic is being recorded to track 2. In order to hear the mic, you would need to select track 2 in VLC. In your second example, your mic is being recorded to track 1 along with your desktop audio. In this case, the player will play back track 1 by default, and you'll hear both.

Incidentally, recording more tracks to a file than you need will make the file bigger than it needs to be.

Wow That was it! I feel really stupid. Thank you a lot! this has been driving me up a wall trying to fix it. It's so weird it use to play both tracks than just played one.