FoilHattiest
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I recently switched to OBS Studio from GameCaster so granted I'm pretty new to the program and don't understand all the settings yet, but I've been successfully recording letsplay gaming videos to publish on YouTube for a little over a month now. I record mostly fullscreen games, with a Logitech webcam as a facecam in the corner overlaying the gameplay capture, and have the game sounds recorded on audio channel 2 and my voice commentary recorded through a Samson G-track Pro USB mic to audio channel 1.
Then last night I decided to try streaming on Twitch with the exact same settings that I use to record my gaming videos, only to have somebody point out to me that they couldn't hear my mic even though it was clearly registering at about -10 db or so on the meter just like when I record videos. After a lot of trying different things, I eventually figured out that the problem was the "Monitor off" setting for the mic. As soon as I changed this to "Monitor and output" (or something like that, I'm not on my OBS computer right now so I can't check what exactly it says), both the gameplay sounds and my voice could be heard fine on stream. For some reason the gameplay sounds could be heard over the stream even with "Monitor off" on that channel, it was only the mic that was affected by this setting.
Now this wouldn't even really be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that while using this setting, I keep hearing myself in my headset with a slight echoed delay right after I say something, which is needless to say very annoying and distracting so I would really like to find some other solution to get my mic audio to the stream if possible without me having to hear it echoed back at me.
Does anybody know what I might be doing wrong to cause this particular situation? Do I need to use some type of different settings when streaming compared to regular recording to be able to output two audio sources to stream, or why can't I just stream with "Monitor Off" on the mic when I can record perfectly fine like that?
Then last night I decided to try streaming on Twitch with the exact same settings that I use to record my gaming videos, only to have somebody point out to me that they couldn't hear my mic even though it was clearly registering at about -10 db or so on the meter just like when I record videos. After a lot of trying different things, I eventually figured out that the problem was the "Monitor off" setting for the mic. As soon as I changed this to "Monitor and output" (or something like that, I'm not on my OBS computer right now so I can't check what exactly it says), both the gameplay sounds and my voice could be heard fine on stream. For some reason the gameplay sounds could be heard over the stream even with "Monitor off" on that channel, it was only the mic that was affected by this setting.
Now this wouldn't even really be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that while using this setting, I keep hearing myself in my headset with a slight echoed delay right after I say something, which is needless to say very annoying and distracting so I would really like to find some other solution to get my mic audio to the stream if possible without me having to hear it echoed back at me.
Does anybody know what I might be doing wrong to cause this particular situation? Do I need to use some type of different settings when streaming compared to regular recording to be able to output two audio sources to stream, or why can't I just stream with "Monitor Off" on the mic when I can record perfectly fine like that?