Question / Help Robotic Voice & OBS Filters All the Sudden

darkchaos916

darkchaos916

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So I was streaming the other day and this has never happened before. I was perfecting my audio cause my noise gate filters was messed up and I added a compressor so when I talk quieter (voice is already soft) or if I were to yell the compressor and everything keep it normalized. After settings up the compressor, I went to go live and I starting noticing my voice was sounded a little robotic.

Is this caused by the compressor settings filter or laggy internet? I have around 10-12 upload speed and stream @1080p60fps never had an stream quality or audio issue till now.

I tried looking up some solution such as unplugging and plugging back in once live but that didn't help turn off compressor and still happening.

What could be doing this?

Any help apprenticed.

Here are my settings if needed & system specs in signature:
 

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FerretBomb

FerretBomb

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Please post a logfile from a live streaming or recording session, it will help quite a bit more than screenshots for initial troubleshooting. There is a pinned topic at the top of the forum with instructions on how to do so.

While filters absolutely can cause robotting, far and away the most common cause is an overloaded USB bus, if you are running a USB microphone or mixer, along with a USB webcam. The fact that you can disable the newly added compressor and not fix the issue suggests that was a coincidental, not a causative change.
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

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The problem is, each slot isn't a separate slot. Multiple are handled by the same UHCI... USB Host Controller Interface. And they aren't marked with which ones are connected to which controller.
A standard 1080p30 webcam like a c920 is enough to use up all the bandwidth on one UHCI on its own. When it does, other devices can't "talk" to the PC at full speed. If your microphone is one of those, boom, you get robotting.

One thing you can do is download a utility called USBView from the forums here:

It will show you which devices are connected to which host controllers. You can then unplug them and move them around to other ports, so high-bandwidth stuff (like your webcam) is on its own controller, and not conflicting with other medium-high bandwidth stuff (your microphone, an external USB hard drive that you use regularly, stuff like that).
 
darkchaos916

darkchaos916

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Ohh very interesting. Thank you for that information. Just happened yesterday out of no where. However I only connect my webcam to the front panel USB 3.0 only when about to stream. Can that still effect it like that?
I not sure when all these are next to each other this is what it say no webcam till streaming still doesn't show in the view when in front panel. I don't know why it says EVGA - usb keyboard on port 3 there when I have the ornata only.
This is what I see can somewhere here cause problems? Sorry never seen this thing before so maybe I to reinsert them so specif order.
I have the C910 (which I should upgrade) 720p@60 so its in sync with the gameplay. I seen so many people super out of sync.

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