Twitch viewers cant hear game chat/people I'm playing against, everything else works. Is it an OBS issue, Xbox issue, or audio settings issue?

[angelodispigna]

I started my first stream last night and everything was working smoothly. Logitech webcam, Yeti Mic, Stream, etc. The ONLY issue I had was viewers could not hear my friends I was playing with (they both were on PlayStation) nor could they hear the other players I was playing against (Like in between rounds of COD). I tried messing with my audio settings and nothing worked. Tried to put input audio from my capture card via OBS but that didn't work as well. Any help? I've done extensive research and can't find a single thing. And no, I am not streaming from the Xbox, I am streaming from my MacBook. My headset is wireless if that info is needed. I can hear my friends and people I'm playing against, but the stream viewers can only hear me. I have the Xbox One S

 

[AaronD]

As an audio guy, used to pro gear, OBS's audio routing is not immediately intuitive to me, but I did manage to figure it out.

Audio Monitoring has 2 destinations: Output and Monitor. Output goes to the Tracks selection here, which appears again in the Output settings:

The Recording tab has a similar selection, but with checkboxes instead, so you can have a multitrack video file. Editors and players can then choose which track to use, but they usually don't mix tracks. (an editor might use multiple copies of the same file, each set to a different track, but that's as close as you're probably going to get to an "easy" mix) You might use this for different languages, translated live (some planning would be necessary, but it *is* possible), or different audio sources on or off, etc., but that function only works when you play back a file that was recorded this way, not live.

The Audio settings has a selection for the Monitoring device, which is where the Monitor destination goes at the start of this post. You'd use that for headphones or studio speakers. If you're using speakers, be careful about what you send to the Monitor, because the mics will pick up those speakers, and that often causes problems. Even headphones can get into a headset mic, if the volumes are high enough. (I've had that happen on a live stage: I was wondering where the metronome was coming from, when I clearly wasn't sending it to the PA.)