Question / Help Want to Hear own Voice

YIOrange

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Hey all, myself and a friend would like to attempt some recording, but I'm running into a problem that seems to be the opposite of everyone else. The best setup available to us at the moment is sharing a microphone(snowball), but each having headphones. The problem here is that while the sound quality is fine, with game audio happening it might be difficult to hear each other. I'd like the microphone to not only record our voices, but spit it back into the headphones so that we can hear each other. Alternatively, I'm open to suggestion. I'm brand new at this so if there's a better(non-expensive) way to handle the situation, that works too. Thanks in advance.
 

dping

Active Member
Hey all, myself and a friend would like to attempt some recording, but I'm running into a problem that seems to be the opposite of everyone else. The best setup available to us at the moment is sharing a microphone(snowball), but each having headphones. The problem here is that while the sound quality is fine, with game audio happening it might be difficult to hear each other. I'd like the microphone to not only record our voices, but spit it back into the headphones so that we can hear each other. Alternatively, I'm open to suggestion. I'm brand new at this so if there's a better(non-expensive) way to handle the situation, that works too. Thanks in advance.
assuming you have a 2 PCs there isn't an easy way to do this without independently setting a line out for each PC that is dedicated to playback the mic on each then running a cable to the line-in of the other PC.

This can able be accomplished using a mixer as well but the concept of having that output from the mic will need to be done as well.

In this case, a second sound card would be needed for each PC to be able to do the line out or somehow wire the mics in to a mixer and assigning the output to each headset.

If you are using a single PC there is a possibility that VAC can assist you with this..
 

YIOrange

New Member
assuming you have a 2 PCs there isn't an easy way to do this without independently setting a line out for each PC that is dedicated to playback the mic on each then running a cable to the line-in of the other PC.

This can able be accomplished using a mixer as well but the concept of having that output from the mic will need to be done as well.

In this case, a second sound card would be needed for each PC to be able to do the line out or somehow wire the mics in to a mixer and assigning the output to each headset.

If you are using a single PC there is a possibility that VAC can assist you with this..
It's just the one PC, I'm not really sure what VAC is though. The other thing I thought of, is there a way to just hear what's being recorded as you're recording?
 

dping

Active Member
It's just the one PC, I'm not really sure what VAC is though. The other thing I thought of, is there a way to just hear what's being recorded as you're recording?
to hear yourself? yeah, you can play it back for both of you. if you right click on your mic in windows playback devices, there is a tab in there to "listen to this device" set it to playback on the headset (assuming you just use a splitter for the headsets).

In the end, you will just need to experiment until you get it right. This really doesn't have to do with OBS so past here you
 

YIOrange

New Member
to hear yourself? yeah, you can play it back for both of you. if you right click on your mic in windows playback devices, there is a tab in there to "listen to this device" set it to playback on the headset (assuming you just use a splitter for the headsets).

In the end, you will just need to experiment until you get it right. This really doesn't have to do with OBS so past here you
Perfect, this works. Thanks for the help.

Edit - Actually, I may have jumped the gun. The recording sounds like it has an echo? Not like actually playing the same audio twice, but more like I'm in a cave or something. It's not the room or microphone since tests without these settings have sounded normal(exactly what I'm hearing in the headphones with these settings)
 

dping

Active Member
Perfect, this works. Thanks for the help.

Edit - Actually, I may have jumped the gun. The recording sounds like it has an echo?
probably. You are sharing a mic and independent headsets. this is kind of pass-through yet slightly delayed.
 
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