Sound Distortion While Recording Discord Video

Klazen

New Member
Hello!

I have been trying to record my D&D sessions to upload to YouTube, but have run into a bit of a snag. I have recorded about 6 hours of game play, now, and all but about 10 minutes of it has unusable audio. When I first began recording, the audio for each player was fine, and then after about 10 minutes the audio did this weird distortion thing, where it makes everyone except for me sound like robots. I am doing all of the recording on my machine, a PC using Windows 10, Firefox for the Browser Window Capture, and multiple window captures of Discord for the video feeds from the other players. Under Audio Mixer, my audio input capture seems to be working just fine. I then have Audio Output Capture set to utilize my headphones, and I additionally have Desktop Audio, which is set to also utilize my headphones. There is a YouTube video posted below that shows the exact issue that is happening. I did attach a log file to this post, as well. Unfortunately, the log is not from the session in which the error occurred, but the problem did persist through the session that the log is from. I don't seem to have a log from the session in which the issue first popped up, unfortunately. It occurred on 10/22, but the oldest log available is from 10/30.

Maybe it's possible that having the output captured twice (via output capture and desktop audio) is causing the issue?


Current Audio Settings are:
Sample Rate of 44.1kHz (to match the headphones I am using).
Channels: Stereo
Desktop Audio: Headphones (all other slots here are set to disabled)

Decay Rate: Fast
Peak Meter Type: Sample Peak

Monitoring Device: Default (with disable windows audio ducking checked)


This link below is the recording in which the issue first occurred (and it has continued ever since, without ever reverting back, even temporarily)
Example of the issue (occurs at 0:15): https://youtu.be/btGNq4tz55U

I would appreciate any help anyone can give! Thank you!
 

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Klazen

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It occurs to me that I didn't mention: Originally, in my first session that I recorded, there was a sample rate mismatch between OBS and my headphones. After that first session, I changed the sample rate in OBS to match the headphones, before doing any more recordings, but the issue has persisted anyway.

I also did not mention that the Desktop Audio seems to be fine when just recording the sounds from the Firefox Browser that I'm window capturing. I've recorded a window displaying YouTube videos several times to test the issue, including having it record the audio of several videos at once, and it was never reproduced that way. Does OBS just hate Discord or something?
 

Klazen

New Member
Ok, with my last session the sound was distorted again until about 02h:05m:30s into the recording. It then corrected itself for the rest of the session. I'm not sure if that mean's it's going to keep working right, but here's the log of that session: https://obsproject.com/logs/tgvFfnec1T9CZgiV
Maybe somebody that knows what they're looking for can help me?
 
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