OBS won’t record my mic (any of them)

[Enderninja_846]

I use a blue snowball and the built-in mic on my meta quest and they’ve been working completely fine for a long time. Now all the sudden OBS refuses to record anything from them. It’s getting a signal so it recognizes them, but it won’t record anything. It records my desktop audio just fine. I haven’t touched anything in settings so I don’t understand…what changed? I’ve tried everything I know to fix it.

 

[Wilber_force]

I have just had the same thing happen. Did you get it resolved?

What are you using? Windows 10/11?

I'm on 11 and it appears that for whatever reason, my Surface Pro 6 had the access to mic's disabled in Control Panel. To get there, I went via Home/Privacy & Security. Then under Apppermissions, scroll down to microphone and there I found the "Let desktop apps ........" set to Off. No idea how that happened, one of those spooky Windows things I guess.

It couldn't have come at a worse time as I was about to live stream a church service and without sound, it was pointless.

I hope this helps if you are still stuck, but as it was a while ago, I guess you may well be sorted.