Question / Help Only Mono

[ROBROB]

Hi Folks,
Im running a simple setup a church. wireless mic to a board, from the board I use an xlr cable into my focusrite 18i8. When I monitor the audio, with a headphone into the focusrite, is sounds beautiful. Full stereo.
Although if I open the stream on facebook, and listen, its in mono. Im lost.
Sounds like OBS is broadcasting this in mono. Im not sure what Im doing wrong.
Any clues are appreiated.

 

[FerretBomb]

Please post a logfile from a live streaming/recording session and we can have a look.

Do note that XLR is a mono standard... it only carries mono audio over a single XLR cable. The Focusrite may play the audio back to both ears through its headphones port, but unless your mic is a stereo mic and uses two XLR cables, it's going to be mono still. Here's a shot of my audio mixer in OBS; you can see that the desktop shows two bars (stereo) while my mic only has one (mono):

OBS by default plays mono sources back on both audio channels, and mono mic audio is not inherently 'worse' than stereo mode... almost all mics out there are mono, and it's up to the mixing desk or software to handle mirroring or stereo panning on the master output.

 

[payfrusonspotify]

Please post a logfile from a live streaming/recording session and we can have a look.

Do note that XLR is a mono standard... it only carries mono audio over a single XLR cable. The Focusrite may play the audio back to both ears through its headphones port, but unless your mic is a stereo mic and uses two XLR cables, it's going to be mono still. Here's a shot of my audio mixer in OBS; you can see that the desktop shows two bars (stereo) while my mic only has one (mono):
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OBS by default plays mono sources back on both audio channels, and mono mic audio is not inherently 'worse' than stereo mode... almost all mics out there are mono, and it's up to the mixing desk or software to handle mirroring or stereo panning on the master output.

Good day Sir, So I saw your reply to this forum and I wanted to ask you if now I use XLR how can I make it stereo and not only mono? I use a mic in the was you described it.

Regards, PAYFRUS

 

[FerretBomb]

Good day Sir, So I saw your reply to this forum and I wanted to ask you if now I use XLR how can I make it stereo and not only mono? I use a mic in the was you described it.

Regards, PAYFRUS

XLR is a mono standard. If you have a stereo mic with two XLR connectors, you would handle each channel (left and right) as two separate inputs, and move the Balance fader for each to the appropriate side in the Advanced Audio Properties.
If you have a single-channel Mono mic and want it to come out of both speakers, you would tick the Mono checkbox in the AAP instead:

 

[payfrusonspotify]

XLR is a mono standard. If you have a stereo mic with two XLR connectors, you would handle each channel (left and right) as two separate inputs, and move the Balance fader for each to the appropriate side in the Advanced Audio Properties.
If you have a single-channel Mono mic and want it to come out of both speakers, you would tick the Mono checkbox in the AAP instead:
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Thank you very much!