Words Repeating

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tedwards

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When I go live in OBS, streaming to my website, the people listening on the other end can hear everything i say but what i say repeats itself about 30 seconds after saying it. This continues throughout my live stream. Can anyone help with this? Thank you very much.
 
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AaronD

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tedwards said:
yes, but i have it muted
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Apparently not everywhere!

As a live-sound guy that learned on this sort of thing,

Resources - Allen & Heath

User Guides, Software, Drivers and Documentation
www.allen-heath.com www.allen-heath.com
(last page of this is especially useful: https://www.allen-heath.com/media/GL3300-USER-GUIDE-AP3102_1.pdf)

the idea of ANY control being absolute is woefully incomplete! You say it's muted? Okay, WHERE is it muted? To what destinations? Are the other destinations still on? Etc. That mindset makes it much easier to find and fix problems, instead of becoming convinced that "it just does what it wants."

It also helps to see, in a direct physical sense, that the meters keep running even if a channel is muted. Both on the board and on any external processing that's plugged into the Insert jacks. The headphones continue to work too. All of that is by design, and really drives home the idea that the mute button is NOT absolute! It stops the signal to some things, but not others.

So where is OBS getting its audio? List ALL of the sources and what they connect to. Maybe you occasionally play sounds in the web browser (or used to and never removed that source), and the specific mute point that you're talking about is *after* that tap? (there are several different mute points too...)
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Exactly what Aaron said
But to expand Though for non-native english speakers, a good place to start is checking if you are using OBS's Desktop Audio as an Audio source. in the original post, my suspicion is that even though muted, that mute is, as Aaron mentioned, AFTER OBS Studio already got it (hence hearing live-delayed, therefore repeated audio/echo)
For this reason, and to simplify my life, and my use case NOT needing Desktop Audio, I disabled Desktop Audio in OBS' Global Settings. I added only those specific Audio Sources (and never Desktop Audio) into appropriate OBS Studio Scenes. This worked for me, as my use case is one that doesn't need or want anything from Desktop Audio (only pre-recorded content, and externally connected mixer & mics... all of which added as specific sources)
 
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