OBS wont pick up mic at all through mixer. Help please?

[TheGoodBrother]

I have the Behringer 802 mixer. Connecting it through OBS, OBS recognizes the mixer and the volume usage. The mic im using you can hear in my monitors. But for whatever reason, the mic set up will not pick up in OBS at all. Any suggestions? Im grateful for any and all help

 

[lofihap]

Can you provide the logs or some screenshots of your OBS?

 

[TheGoodBrother]

Can you provide the logs or some screenshots of your OBS?

I appreciate your help. Hopefully, these make it a bit clearer. I have the mic set in the first channel of my mixer. and I can turn the sound up or down for whatever reason it picks up in the speakers but it will not pick up in OBS at all. So clearly its working in the mixer, but OBS wont recognize mic sound at all
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[lofihap]

That's a nice mixer btw.

Do you open OBS to run as administrator?
Have you tried to turn monitoring for the audio input to monitor and output?

If so, and it still doesn't work -
How is the mixer connected to the PC?

Control Panel > Sound > Playback > What is the default device?
Default device > properties > levels > current level?
Default device > properties > advanced > what is the default format of the playback device?
Is exclusive mode turned on? if so, try turning both options off.
Spatial sound > off

Control Panel > Sound > Recording > What is the default device?
Default device > properties > levels > current level?
Default device > properties > advanced > what is the default format of the playback device?
Is exclusive mode turned on? if so, try turning both options off.
Spatial sound > off

Default format mismatches caused some odd issues for me. My mixer is 2 channel 16 bit, 48h dvd quality & my speakers were 24bit studio quality. I changed my speakers to match, and it helped reduce some of the issues.

Also, can you share a log file?
From OBS - Help > Logs > view current log

You can parse out any information you don't want to share, but there should be a section in the log file that shows OBS initializing devices including audio.

 

[TheGoodBrother]

ok to answer your question currently the main device is the mixer.
Default device > properties > levels > current level?: Its at 11
Default device > properties > advanced > what is the default format of the playback device?: 16 bit, 48000 Hz (DVD Quality)
I just turned both of the exclusive modes off but Spatial sound was already on off
I attached the log.

 

[TheGoodBrother]

That's a nice mixer btw.

Do you open OBS to run as administrator?
Have you tried to turn monitoring for the audio input to monitor and output?

If so, and it still doesn't work -
How is the mixer connected to the PC?

Control Panel > Sound > Playback > What is the default device?
Default device > properties > levels > current level?
Default device > properties > advanced > what is the default format of the playback device?
Is exclusive mode turned on? if so, try turning both options off.
Spatial sound > off

Control Panel > Sound > Recording > What is the default device?
Default device > properties > levels > current level?
Default device > properties > advanced > what is the default format of the playback device?
Is exclusive mode turned on? if so, try turning both options off.
Spatial sound > off

Default format mismatches caused some odd issues for me. My mixer is 2 channel 16 bit, 48h dvd quality & my speakers were 24bit studio quality. I changed my speakers to match, and it helped reduce some of the issues.

Also, can you share a log file?
From OBS - Help > Logs > view current log

You can parse out any information you don't want to share, but there should be a section in the log file that shows OBS initializing devices including audio.

Hey not sure if you had a chance to look. Still looking for a little help here. I appreciate you.

 

[carlmmii]

You're not using the mixer as intended.

The mixer will take your mic audio and any other audio channels you have and mix them together for a final mix. If you include this final mix as an audio input in OBS, OBS will hear exactly what you're hearing in your monitoring headphones connected to the mixer.

You do not have things set up for this. For one, you are capturing the desktop audio output that is being sent from the computer (Desktop Audio in your sources). You also have nothing selected for your input audio device.

Unfortunately, with your specific mixer, it does not allow for bi-directional USB. That means it can either send desktop audio to the mixer's PC audio channel, OR it can output the main mix back to the computer. Not both at the same time.

The preferred way to work around this (for this specific mixer) is to run speaker audio from your computer's speaker port to one of the mixer channels. You can pick up a 1/8" TRS -> dual 1/4" TS cable specifically for this purpose. Then you just include the mixer as an audio input device in OBS.

 

[TheGoodBrother]

You're not using the mixer as intended.

The mixer will take your mic audio and any other audio channels you have and mix them together for a final mix. If you include this final mix as an audio input in OBS, OBS will hear exactly what you're hearing in your monitoring headphones connected to the mixer.

You do not have things set up for this. For one, you are capturing the desktop audio output that is being sent from the computer (Desktop Audio in your sources). You also have nothing selected for your input audio device.

Unfortunately, with your specific mixer, it does not allow for bi-directional USB. That means it can either send desktop audio to the mixer's PC audio channel, OR it can output the main mix back to the computer. Not both at the same time.

The preferred way to work around this (for this specific mixer) is to run speaker audio from your computer's speaker port to one of the mixer channels. You can pick up a 1/8" TRS -> dual 1/4" TS cable specifically for this purpose. Then you just include the mixer as an audio input device in OBS.

I appreciate your response. So just to make sure I'm clear. Its not really possible to stream using this Berhinger mixer unless I run the computer sound directly through the headphone port on the mixer? Will this allow for my mic sound to pick up at all? Because thats the main issue, it doesn't recognize the mic in any way in OBS. Regardless of how the sound is mixed. I thank you for the help.

 

[lofihap]

I am using a Roland GO Mixer: Pro as input only - only mic running through the mixer (will be using a piano with it later).
Desktop audio is my background music/game/etc.

I have the option to monitor voice only via mixer monitor, or I can monitor background audio via pc headphone output.

I opt to only monitor my background music, because I pre-test my mixer/mic before every stream, and have a spare set of ear buds if I need to check the voice audio.

This is just my preferred method when its game play or chatting. I don't like using the "monitor output" of the mixture from OBS because it creates an echo, and can effect your speech patterns (ie, make you stutter).

With the piano, I prefer to monitor from the mixer - because there is no background music running, and have the spare set connect to pc.

I could probably make it more efficient - but this works best for me right now. Maybe this will give you some ideas.
If you want any pictures of my cabling, let me know.

The only other thing is - my mixer is not "meant" for pc use by design. I'm using an adapter to use as USB-C.

 

[TheGoodBrother]

I am using a Roland GO Mixer: Pro as input only - only mic running through the mixer (will be using a piano with it later).
Desktop audio is my background music/game/etc.

I have the option to monitor voice only via mixer monitor, or I can monitor background audio via pc headphone output.

I opt to only monitor my background music, because I pre-test my mixer/mic before every stream, and have a spare set of ear buds if I need to check the voice audio.

This is just my preferred method when its game play or chatting. I don't like using the "monitor output" of the mixture from OBS because it creates an echo, and can effect your speech patterns (ie, make you stutter).

With the piano, I prefer to monitor from the mixer - because there is no background music running, and have the spare set connect to pc.

I could probably make it more efficient - but this works best for me right now. Maybe this will give you some ideas.
If you want any pictures of my cabling, let me know.

The only other thing is - my mixer is not "meant" for pc use by design. I'm using an adapter to use as USB-C.

Please do I would love to see it

 

[lofihap]

Please do I would love to see it

Absolutely - let me get some pictures and everything together.

 

[lofihap]

Please do I would love to see it

My apologies for the delay! - I've actually made some changes that no longer include the audio interface only right now because I'm not recording instruments atm.. However, I can provide you step by step what I had connected.

Audio Interface [Go Mixer Pro]
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[Earbuds] - connected to [Monitor Out]
[Microphone IN] - connected to [Line/Headphone on PC]
[Power/Connection] - connected to [USB C on PC]


PC Setup
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In the task manager - Right-click [Volume] > [Open Sound Settings] > [Sound Control Panel]
"Playback tab" - select speakers/headphones > properties > advanced
- turn off the option to allow application to take exclusive control of the device and give exclusive mode applications priority.
- go to spatial sound tab and turn this off.

"Recording tab" - select audio interface> properties > advanced
- Listen tab > you can experiment here with adding the option to listen to this device, the issue I ran into was not being able to control the audio properly from the PC into the Audio interface, because the desktop audio can't be lowered coming into the audio interface without effecting the overall volume output of the recording/stream.
- Advanced tab > - turn off the option to allow application to take exclusive control of the device and give exclusive mode applications priority.

OBS Studio
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[Settings > Audio]
[Desktop Audio] set to Speakers/Headphones - or you can manually add the source "audio input capture" per scene.

[Scene > Sources]
[Audio Interface] add "audio input capture," select audio interface.
[Edit > Advanced Audio Properties] - audio monitoring set to [monitor off] for everything.

I found that if used monitoring, it would dramatically lower the volume, or cause a repeating echo of the audio in recording/stream. That's why I opt'd to use 2 different headphones.
The earbuds would be connected to the audio interface to test/listen to the quality coming from the audio interface (during setup/pre-recording/stream testing)
The headphone jack, I use a 'in-line' aux volume control. The in-line audio controller plugs into the speaker/headset jack on the PC, headphones connected on other end. This allows me to keep the PC volume at 80-100 when streaming/recording to maximize my audio output, but I can independently lower the volume on the headphones with the inline to a more comfortable level.
But I also didn't need/want to hear myself talking while recording/streaming - because if there is any delay/stutter between the PC processing the audio, and pushing the output to the speakers - it can cause you to physically stutter when talking.

I hope this detailed explanation helps out, if you still need a visual - let me know! I would gladly reconnect it all back up and take some pictures for you.