Spotify seems kinda weird on OBS after i did the separate audios

[icevikiing]

I been doing this lately idk if people use this method like im a streamer and i like the volume on my end to be low as possible but still not low enough so its just muted i wanna hear part of the sound like music. Look at my mixer its way way way up in +17 but still not even touching the yellow lines. attached a image is my mixer problem. and spotify is hardly touching the yellow bar.

 

[ValeOfAaron]

Hey! I am having the same issue! Did you ever find a fix?

 

[AaronD]

You turned it down in Spotify. Thanks for including that screenshot too. Makes it easy.

The vast majority of digital volume controls only attenuate. In other words, 100% is no-change, and anything less is reduced-volume from what it was.

Just like pro rigs, your amps and speakers are quite sensitive, so it takes far less than full-scale to produce something sensible. But for most things (this included), you should only turn it down at the *end* of the chain.
In the middle, like the inputs to OBS, you want to keep a good, strong, "hot" signal, even though it would blast your speakers if you sent it directly there at that volume.

So if you're feeding something else into OBS, turn that something else all the way up to 100%. Seriously. Turn the speakers down elsewhere.

 

[kumararyan]

I've been experimenting with this setup recently, and I'm not sure if others use a similar approach. I'm a streamer, and I prefer keeping the volume on my end as low as possible—quiet enough but not completely muted. I still want to hear some audio, like music, faintly. In my mixer, the levels are cranked up to +17, yet they’re not even close to hitting the yellow zone. I’ve attached an image of my mixer setup—could this be an issue? Also, Spotify’s output is barely reaching the yellow bar.

 

[AaronD]

I prefer keeping the volume on my end as low as possible—quiet enough but not completely muted. I still want to hear some audio, like music, faintly. In my mixer, the levels are cranked up to +17, yet they’re not even close to hitting the yellow zone...could this be an issue?

Probably.

You probably need two separate mixes - one for your headphones and one to stream - which OBS does not do, so you'll have to do it in something else, in which case you might as well have that something else do ALL of your audio work and give OBS the final finished soundtrack to pass through completely unchanged. OBS is completely silent except for that, with no other audio sources whatsoever, and no audio filters whatsoever. All of your audio stuff - mics, headphones, etc. - connect to that other tool, not OBS.

Technically, there's the Audio Monitor plugin:

Audio Monitor

Plugin for OBS Studio to add Audio Monitor dock and filter. It allows you to put the audio of a OBS source to an audio device by adding the Audio Monitor filter on the Source in OBS Studio. This can be useful in different use cases...

obsproject.com

which can give you a second mix (or third or however many you need), but it's just a whole lot easier once you get it set up, and more capable, to do it in a DAW or physical console. Yes, it's more setup to do it externally, but well worth it!

Regardless of how you do it, keep everything as hot as you can without clipping, until as absolutely late as you can. Digital playback at 100%, always. Then turn it down later, only in the mix that needs it.

I’ve attached an image of my mixer setup

It didn't come through.