Question / Help Obs only Recording audio SOMETIMES

[Numero Uno]

I have my microphone hooked up properly and it is displaying the audio levels when I talk. I even checked with the audio monitoring feature and can hear myself through the speakers. I used to be able hear some recordings have the audio of my mic in it but now that I am posting this, none of them do. I have tried using VLC, I have also pulled it up to Sony Vegas and there are no waveforms at all for the mic. I have two audio tracks enabled and it is checked for at least one of them. I don't know what the issue is but any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Yokijirou]

I've been having the same issues. The audio LOOKS like it's recording but then when I go to check the audio NOPE not there at all. Now it won't initialize either my mic or my default audio device. It's been driving me insane.

 

[SumDim]

Check your audio mixer properties. Go to the mixer and click on any of the wheels for an audio source.
Advanced audio properties dialog box should appear.

For the Audio Monitoring settings:
- Monitor and Output - You hear it on your audio monitoring device and it gets recorded/streamed.
- Monitor Off - You don't hear it on your audio monitoring device. It does however get recorded/streamed.
- Monitor Only (muted output) - You hear it on your audio monitoring device but it doesn't get recorded/streamed.

Did your settings get hosed on an upgrade? If so, let us know.

 

[Numero Uno]

I've been having the same issues. The audio LOOKS like it's recording but then when I go to check the audio NOPE not there at all. Now it won't initialize either my mic or my default audio device. It's been driving me insane.

Most definitely a very frustrating situation and I'm at least glad at the fact that I'm not the only one. The only way to bypass this that I have found is to only have one audio track instead of multiple... which really sucks considering I almost need separate audio tracks.

 

[Numero Uno]

Check your audio mixer properties. Go to the mixer and click on any of the wheels for an audio source.
Advanced audio properties dialog box should appear.

For the Audio Monitoring settings:
- Monitor and Output - You hear it on your audio monitoring device and it gets recorded/streamed.
- Monitor Off - You don't hear it on your audio monitoring device. It does however get recorded/streamed.
- Monitor Only (muted output) - You hear it on your audio monitoring device but it doesn't get recorded/streamed.

Did your settings get hosed on an upgrade? If so, let us know.

Checking the properties only assured me that I was using the right mic. Also audio monitoring was something I enabled beforehand to make sure that the mic was working and it was because I can hear my voice in the playback. The issue is still there

 

[SumDim]

Ok so audio monitoring shouldn't be done through the speakers. That is a bad idea. It should be done by headphones. You don't want the open mic to pickup speaker sound. You only want the mic to pick up your voice.

Try this to see if it works:
- Set Advanced | Audio | Audio Monitoring Device specifically to the headphones
- Mic is an Audio Input capture source and set to Monitor and Output
- Headphones is an Audio Output capture source and set to Monitor and Output. This makes everything I am hearing, to be captured.
- Disable desktop audio device 1 and 2; disable mic/aux device 1, 2 and 3

 

[Filgaja]

I Figured out this happens when i am using discord!
the only way to solve this IF you are using discord and get this issue: start OBS after Discord.
If you start Discord after OBS sometimes Discrod takes controll of the main audio server?! or how does it called and use it on his own.
OBS seems to record, there are audio output and you can see al audio in your obs... but it does not record it.

Thats why i stoped to use discord because i lost a lot of importand records.

Replay if this may or could your issue

 

[ICEknight]

This just happened to me right now with a test streaming of around 15 minutes. The streaming I had done just before had proper sound (I just exited and restarted OBS), so this seems kind of random.

I wasn't using Discord, for the record.

 

[MuxBull]

The only solution i could find was if you go into "advanced audio properties" then make sure you have all five tracks selected(although this does defeat the propose of editing your audio in post) this was the only solution i could find. Hope it helps.

 

[FauxJuniper]

Check your audio mixer properties. Go to the mixer and click on any of the wheels for an audio source.
Advanced audio properties dialog box should appear.

For the Audio Monitoring settings:
- Monitor and Output - You hear it on your audio monitoring device and it gets recorded/streamed.
- Monitor Off - You don't hear it on your audio monitoring device. It does however get recorded/streamed.
- Monitor Only (muted output) - You hear it on your audio monitoring device but it doesn't get recorded/streamed.

Did your settings get hosed on an upgrade? If so, let us know.

My audio only records if its on monitor and output and I really dont want to have to listen to the play back of my own voice the whole time. Its incredibly annoying. When I have it on monitor off it does not record the audio and I'm not sure why.

 

[PinkiePinkerton]

My audio only records if its on monitor and output and I really dont want to have to listen to the play back of my own voice the whole time. Its incredibly annoying. When I have it on monitor off it does not record the audio and I'm not sure why.

I started having the same issue a few days ago. Any solution?