Tinny/robotic audio through fifine mic - but not a generic sound recorder

[emsflea]

Hey guys.

I do creative recordings for gaming - just a few days ago OBS decided (or windows did) to get confused about the channels my mic is going through.

When i speak in to my mic both the audio equalizers move the same - i think its obviously causing the loop/robotic/tinny feed back im getting.
It was working fine 2 days ago then just switched on me nothing new added to hardware or anything audio drivers etc fully up to date.
This is a fresh install of windows also - with everything updated that I normally use.
Thank you for your help.

 

[koala]

You set your mic to monitor and output. Monitor plays back your voice to the device in Settings > Audio > Advanced > Monitoring device. If this device is the same as the device you're capturing with the desktop audio source (look into Settings > Audio > Global audio devices), you create a feedback loop.

The same will happen if you used Windows settings to play back your microphone device to some other Windows device, and that Windows device is the same as you set in OBS as desktop audio device. The new Windows 11 sound settings isn't able to configure this, but if you use the classic audio control panel, you're able to set this in the properties of the mic device, in the tab "Listen" with the option "Listen to this device".

 

[emsflea]

Hi Kola

Im a little confused - I can get it to sound normal if i select my desktop table speakers (voice).. its even muting audio if i just go to youtube and watch a video - i dont know why it was working and flipped like this

 

[koala]

Yes, you're not supposed to set monitoring device and desktop audio the same (in your case: your gaming headset).

Usually, OBS just implicitly disables monitoring if it detects this kind of loop. However this detection doesn't seem to be bullet proof, so you should avoid this to begin with.

 

[emsflea]

Driving me nuts! I just want to hear my voice in my head set as im recording games - im not sure why its not working still.

 

[koala]

You simply cannot put your voice into your headset and record the headset at the same time and expect your headset capture doesn't include the voice.
If you want this separated, you must not capture your headset with OBS. Set desktop audio to disabled. Instead, capture each audio source you hear in your headset explicitly in OBS. Your game - capture its audio directly from the game capture, not through desktop audio.