Trouble Recording my Tuba

Greg Fishel

New Member
So I play the tuba and have never had a problem recoding onto my iphone. But today for the first time I tried recording through OBS and tons of problems. I had a voice intro which sounded fine, but when I started playing the tuba, it was almost non-existent. Every once in a while I'd hear a blip but that was about it. I'm sure the issue is related to audio settings but I'm pretty much a buffoon when it comes to audio. So if anyone can steer me in the right direction, I would be eternally appreciative!
 

JonathanC09

Member
This sounds like you have an active noise filter. Anti-noise filters are great for when you want to talk and there's background noise, the bad thing is that these filters detect music as noise and do their best to mute it.

Check from the microphone to OBS the entire path that the audio follows to find the filter and deactivate it.
 

AaronD

Active Member
What Jonathan said. Countless people have tossed Noise Suppressors on their streams, and then wondered what happened to their instruments in church or sound effects in a game.

Noise Suppression is designed for spoken voice only, like a conference call by someone who understands absolutely nothing about audio or acoustics, and sits in the absolute worst possible spot, and still expects to be heard clearly with silence otherwise. Anything beyond a spoken voice is considered noise to be removed. (like if they sat directly under a lobby speaker...)

If you have one in OBS, of course take it off. But you could also have one in Windows itself. That one is on by default, because most of Microsoft's customers are business people and casual home users, both of which make conference calls with spoken voice only, understand nothing, and expect it to "just work".

So for most of MS's customers, it does "just work" because that function is on by default. You need to find it, along with all of the other "audio enhancements" that Windoze or your audio driver might have, and turn it all off. Anything that is not "a straight dumb wire" needs to go, no matter how deeply it's buried to avoid nosy people stumbling onto it, fiddling with stuff with no record of what they did, and then blaming Microsoft for wrecking their conference call.
 
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