Obs picking up my Headphone enhancements

[MrDooHicky]

Does anyone know how to record in obs without it picking up my headphone enhancements? It doesn't record using my enhancements when I turn them off but I am wondering if there was a way to record normally with them turned on. (If you do not know what I mean by "Headphone Enhancements," you can enhance your headphone quality in the control panel setting underneath sound. Go to playback, Find your output device and click on properties, and then click the enhancements tab at the top.)

 

[starflame]

You can't. Not through the standard Windows headphone enhancements. Those are global on your computer, as windows changes the main sound source to have those. It's not filtered into a "headphone enhanced" audio stream and a "non-enhanced" audio-stream.
As we as we know this will be the same in Windows 11 too.

However, there are indeed software that lets you separate your audio and specific headphones/speaker settings and add plugins to do what those enhancements do.. but that is more production grade audio software. For example if you were to use your computer to record or stream a band or add midi keyboards into a mix, from your own pc, so you would have plugins on top of those to do what you want in terms of enhancements.

The easy answer is "no, not really" and the complex is "yes, but it's needs more complex software".