Question / Help Static on Mic

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Gandalf

New Member
Well today marks my first week of streaming, and everything has been fine up till a couple minutes ago for some reason my mic is puting out this awful static sound and scratching. Only happens while im streaming. If i do a audio check through skype im fine, even if im in a skype call im fine. But once i stream the audio that comes out from my mic through my stream is static and scracthing can anyone help
 
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Darkburrow

New Member
The first thing i can come up with is the problem i had, OBS was connected to my webcam-mic which is horribru, but that might not be the case here :P
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Checking your mic with Skype is a bad idea, because Skype has a lot of built-in noise cancellation. If you want to check your mic, try recording a sample in a program like Audacity.
 
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Lain

Forum Admin
Lain
Forum Moderator
Developer
Does this static occur in your headset, and not the stream? If so, this is more of a motherboard or hardware thing that has to do with interference. I've seen it numerous times, usually the people who have it are using capture devices and/or webcams, and the way they usually fix it is by lowering the webcam resolution, believe it or not. Would like to see a log though otherwise.
 
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Nirrudn

Member
Depending on your sound card, you may have a feature called "Noise Suppression" or "Noise Cancellation" available to activate on your mic. Go to your mic's properties (on Windows 7: right click the speaker icon, Recording Devices) and check the "Enhancements" tab. If you can turn that on, it may help.
 
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