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How To Hear Game Audio for Streaming & Recording using OBS Studio
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Open OBS Studio, and in the Audio Mixer, click on the gear icon for your Desktop Audio and select Advanced Audio Properties. You will see a list of audio inputs and outputs, such as your Webcam, Video Capture Device, which is often your desktop, Mic and Desktop Audio. Make sure to check the Volume % option. This should clear up how much audio you let through for OBS to pick up. In this example, the Desktop Audio is set to 100%, and the Mic audio is set to 0%. In most cases, you will want to reduce your webcam audio to 0. When setting the Audio Monitoring option to Monitor and Output, OBS will record the audio, and the application will also output it to your default audio output device, my headphones. Monitor will ensure that the audio is only recorded, but you will not hear it. Tweaking these settings will allow OBS to pick up the audio sources you’d like and have the application output the sound to your device as you’d like.
OBS Advanced Audio Properties
Open OBS Studio, and in the Audio Mixer, click on the gear icon for your Desktop Audio and select Advanced Audio Properties.
You will see a list of audio inputs and outputs, such as your Webcam, Video Captu…
You will see a list of audio inputs and outputs, such as your Webcam, Video Capture Device, which is often your desktop, Mic and Desktop Audio. Make sure to check the Volume % option. This should clear up how much audio you let through for OBS to pick up. In this example, the Desktop Audio is set to 100%, and the Mic audio is set to 0%. In most cases, you will want to reduce your webcam audio to 0. When setting the Audio Monitoring option to Monitor and Output, OBS will record the audio, and the application will also output it to your default audio output device, my headphones. Monitor will ensure that the audio is only recorded, but you will not hear it. Tweaking these settings will allow OBS to pick up the audio sources you’d like and have the application output the sound to your device as you’d like.
Increase your input slider for your input and output devices in your Audio Mixer
Increase your input slider for your input and output devices in your Audio Mixer. To change your microphone device, simply navigate to your Mic properties, and in this drop-down menu select the correct device.
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