OBS not recording multiple audio tracks

koala

Active Member
i still can't figure out why my audio track 1 and 2 won't records and I watched every YouTube video on it....
So where is your log? Every issue is different, even if it seems it's the same. A log with a recording session that includes the issue tells almost everything.

The most frequent causes of an issue described as "audio track 1 and 2 won't record" is with the playback software. Media players will never mix audio tracks. They will play back one track at at time and you need to switch tracks within the player to hear a different track.

It's also known that some postprocessing software simply doesn't support reading multiple audio tracks from the video file. They read the first track and that's all.
 

DrSupermanShadow

New Member
no:
AI has made it possible to read human statistics.
Coders may not take the time to learn the majority of users need but i do.

it used to be just a learning disability thing but as of 2020 (anyone born in between 20 years of that date)

it became commonplace for humans not to read past 5 lines of text.
nor understand the technicalities of software like obs.
and need pictures( or videos to go along with step-by-step instructions on how to fix problems or even learn a program)
( 90% of whom can't because it's just beyond their ability to do so) ( LIKE BLENDER OR AUDACITY)
they don't look at or read log files and fail to understand them.

the pure traditional 1980's coders' mindset is a minority.

in 2024 a simplified front-end code visualizer that targets a code line is possible, it is also possible to create a simplified correct way
and incorrect ways to code. help images...

simply put coder have to change their mind set from " learn it my way" to Hey a 3-year-old can read and understand this...
that is our world now...

this hey post your log file, find your log file, find a crash report, create a bug report by going into files is not gonna fly.
as of 2020, it has to be a simplified widget to create and send, or a little tool in the help section that pops open the file and file location.

AND ACCORDING TO PUBLIC DATA; IT HAS, ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN A THING AMONG THE TECH USER BASE.
MOST PEOPLE ARE STILL GONNA POST( IN SOME VARIATION OR OTHER):

"OKAY, MY RECORDINGS ARE NOT RECORDING AND PLAYING BACK MULTIPLE AUDIO TRACKS.
CAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH PICTURES, VIDEO OR NON-TECHNO BABBLE SPEECH"

AND LOOK I CREATED SOME NEW HELP FILES FOR YAH. NOW SURE IF ITS SET CORRECTLY BUT HEY THIS IS HOW YOU HELP 90% of obs or any tech.
 

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koala

Active Member
Please work on your attitude. OBS is a free software project that has no company behind it. Help on this forum is given by unpaid volunteers in their free time. If this isn't enough for you, you're free to find paid software with paid support.
 

AaronD

Active Member
@DrSupermanShadow What koala said.

What you're asking for is how you support a single-function app that does nothing beyond that one pre-defined thing with almost no options. OBS allows anything and everything that someone might want to do, and so it's inherently technical with no way to avoid that. If you can't handle the technicality, go somewhere else. Use a single-function thing.

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The "wrong" settings that you have, whatever they are, might be exactly what someone else needs to do what *they* want. There's no universal "right" or "wrong" setting. If everyone is supposed to have the same setting, why is it even a setting? Why not hard-code it?

Kinda like people that insist on keeping the faders/sliders of a mixing console at 0dB/unity all the time, always, as if they're glued there. Then they end up mixing on the preamps or somewhere else, which messes things up that are supposed to be unaffected by normal mixing, like the performers' monitor mixes. That's already a problem, but it makes even less sense when you consider that the faders are the most expensive controls on the board, in terms of both parts cost and real estate. Why go to all that expense, if they're "supposed to" stay in one specific position? Why not hard-wire that bit of processing behind the panel and not have those controls at all?
(yes, that *is* a real point of contention in the audio-production world)

Likewise for any other physical control or software option. If it exists, then it should be expected for all of its possibilities to be useful in some context. Just, "set it here," with no more explanation than that, *might* solve the immediate problem...*might*...but it'll certainly cause others, in different contexts that need a different setting.

Your one situation is tunnel-vision. That doesn't work for the wide variety of situations that OBS is used in. And because we've seen a lot of that variety on the forum, it also doesn't help to tell us, "it doesn't work," with not much more than that. What you have may very well work perfectly for someone else's rig, and with nothing to go on, we don't know yours from theirs.
 

blandinistudio

New Member
I am having the same issue. I am trying to record my mic coming out of my audio interface as channel 1 and the source of my 2nd audio interface on channel 2. I am only getting channel 1. I have my logs attached.
 

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AaronD

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I am having the same issue. I am trying to record my mic coming out of my audio interface as channel 1 and the source of my 2nd audio interface on channel 2. I am only getting channel 1. I have my logs attached.

A couple of things jump out at me:
17:13:02.872: OBS 30.1.2 (mac)
17:13:02.872: ---------------------------------
17:13:02.872: ---------------------------------
17:13:02.872: audio settings reset:
17:13:02.872: samples per sec: 48000
17:13:02.872: speakers: 2
17:13:02.872: max buffering: 960 milliseconds
17:13:02.872: buffering type: dynamically increasing
17:13:02.873: ---------------------------------
17:13:02.873: Initializing OpenGL...
...
17:13:03.184: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
17:13:03.196: All scene data cleared
17:13:03.196: ------------------------------------------------
17:13:03.255: Downmix enabled: 12 to 2 channels.
17:13:03.332: coreaudio: Device 'Audient iD24' [44100 Hz] initialized
17:13:03.332: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
17:13:03.434: Switched to scene 'Scene'
17:13:03.434: ------------------------------------------------
17:13:03.434: Loaded scenes:
  • You're on a Mac, and this is the Windows subforum. Fewer Mac experts here than there are over there:
  • OBS is set for 48kHz, while your audio interface is running 44.1kHz? That's known to cause stuttering and other buffer-related problems, because OBS doesn't resample correctly.
  • Downmix enabled: 12 to 2 channels. Is that a 12-channel audio interface, while OBS is set to stereo? That's also a longstanding known problem, where OBS insists that every device must be a single source, with a surround format determined only by its channel count. No way to change that, or to choose individual channels.
    That's great for a bedroom streamer that has a mono mic and a 5.1 game or something like that, and he'll be confused with anything else, but a royal mess if you have multiple separate mics on the same interface.
 

KingJet

New Member
Hello, I am having the same issue. I been trying to figure it out for the past 3 hours now. If anyone could help me, it would be appreciated.
 

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AaronD

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Hello, I am having the same issue. I been trying to figure it out for the past 3 hours now. If anyone could help me, it would be appreciated.
Same issue as what? There are two in this thread now, since the Mac guy posted a different thing in a Windows subforum.

What does the Analyzer say about those log files? Nothing jumps out at me in the first few seconds, but that doesn't mean there's nothing there.
 

KingJet

New Member
Same issue as what? There are two in this thread now, since the Mac guy posted a different thing in a Windows subforum.

What does the Analyzer say about those log files? Nothing jumps out at me in the first few seconds, but that doesn't mean there's nothing there.
I can't record my two tracks. I put the old log into the analyzer, there were two thing warnings, so I fixed them. But it still doesn't work. I try to record My mic, and a game audio or desktop audio. It will only record my voice. If I put them all on the same track, it works. But I don't want that, I want them to record in separate tracks. But it is only recorded in track 1.
 

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Vowkl

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I'm having a similar issue and don't understand how to fix it. I'm no wizard by any means but it's so frustrating not knowing what to change. i originally was making the same mistake but switched my audio to global but when I record and watch the video all I'm hearing is my microphone. Same thing when happens when I put it in Filmora, and there's only one audio track still. (Only because I don't have premiere pro yet). I'm essentially trying to create 3 different tracks. One for my mic, game, and then one of both together. Please any help is appreciated, I'm really looking forward to what I can create with multiple audio tracks. https://obsproject.com/logs/UF5eJDkB8liCcFkB
How did you fix the issue? I dont really understand what u did and i have the same problem
 

AaronD

Active Member
How did you fix the issue? I dont really understand what u did and i have the same problem
He answered that question in the very next post, quoted here for your convenience:
UPDATE! Sorry for the inconvenience I'm just an absolute idiot. I didn't realize I had to hover over the file in the editor to select tracks. Again, I'm no wizard but I definitely do feel more relieved. Hopefully I don't encounter more problems when I start using Priemer Pro. :)
Essentially, OBS is working just like it's supposed to and as expected. The data is there, in the file. You just need to know how to run your editor to get it.
 
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