Nervanisty
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Hello guys, i need you help!
Before updating OBS, my microphone sounded completely normal: no background noise, no strange coloration, no distortion. At some point I updated OBS, and after that the sound changed. The voice is still clear and generally sounds fine, but there is now an unpleasant resonant low-mid coloration added to it. It is not echo and not a normal hum. It sounds more like a hollow / boomy / resonant coloration, and it is especially noticeable on bass-heavy speakers.
It does not seem to be a problem with the microphone itself. The setup is a Rode Procaster through a Thomann FetAmp into a Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen. The Scarlett input does not appear to be clipping, because the input halo stays green. So the issue seems to be happening inside the computer — either at the Windows audio endpoint level or in the way this input is being processed by software.
In Windows, the input Analogue 1 + 2 Focusrite USB Audio is exposed as a 2-channel input. In the Balance settings, I see two separate channel controls. If I mute the first channel, the microphone stops working completely and no signal is detected at all. If I mute the second channel, the voice remains, but the unwanted coloration does not disappear. This behavior did not exist before the OBS update.
The problem is present even on a completely raw source with all filters disabled. I have already tried the standard troubleshooting steps, and none of them fixed it: disabling all filters, creating a new empty scene with only the mic, testing both global and per-scene input routing, trying an older portable OBS version, changing sample rate, buffer size, 1-channel / 2-channel mode, mono/stereo settings in both Windows and OBS, reinstalling Focusrite Control and the driver, checking default device / default communication device, and going through the usual Windows audio settings. None of that solved the issue.
At this point, my main suspicion is that after the OBS update something changed in the way Windows and/or OBS handle this audio endpoint or process this 2-channel input, and that is what is adding this strange coloration to the voice.
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Before updating OBS, my microphone sounded completely normal: no background noise, no strange coloration, no distortion. At some point I updated OBS, and after that the sound changed. The voice is still clear and generally sounds fine, but there is now an unpleasant resonant low-mid coloration added to it. It is not echo and not a normal hum. It sounds more like a hollow / boomy / resonant coloration, and it is especially noticeable on bass-heavy speakers.
It does not seem to be a problem with the microphone itself. The setup is a Rode Procaster through a Thomann FetAmp into a Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen. The Scarlett input does not appear to be clipping, because the input halo stays green. So the issue seems to be happening inside the computer — either at the Windows audio endpoint level or in the way this input is being processed by software.
In Windows, the input Analogue 1 + 2 Focusrite USB Audio is exposed as a 2-channel input. In the Balance settings, I see two separate channel controls. If I mute the first channel, the microphone stops working completely and no signal is detected at all. If I mute the second channel, the voice remains, but the unwanted coloration does not disappear. This behavior did not exist before the OBS update.
The problem is present even on a completely raw source with all filters disabled. I have already tried the standard troubleshooting steps, and none of them fixed it: disabling all filters, creating a new empty scene with only the mic, testing both global and per-scene input routing, trying an older portable OBS version, changing sample rate, buffer size, 1-channel / 2-channel mode, mono/stereo settings in both Windows and OBS, reinstalling Focusrite Control and the driver, checking default device / default communication device, and going through the usual Windows audio settings. None of that solved the issue.
At this point, my main suspicion is that after the OBS update something changed in the way Windows and/or OBS handle this audio endpoint or process this 2-channel input, and that is what is adding this strange coloration to the voice.
Audio sample (Dropbox)
Dropbox
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