You can have as many audio inputs into obs as you have adio devices for your pc. I have 3 audio in on mine - my mic, multiplayer discord voice chat, game sounds.
Oh I have different settings based on whether I'm just listening/playing sh*t, streaming by myself, streaming with other people, or zoom.
What I have done to deal with things like that is have multi actions on my Stream Deck that tell the Wave software to adjust the volume of the inputs in question. For things like mic volume, I use an OBS plugin which lets me change the volume from the Stream Deck. Since I pipe my microphone back through VB Audio cable for discord/zoom/etc... I can mute that input without effecting what goes to a stream or recording in OBS.
Oh kazar I too have a Stream Deck and love it, but I usually only use it for muting or unmuting different audio sources. It's so great. My favorite is my "Blow my Nose" button, which turns off the camera and mutes the mic when I press it, and then resumes them when I press it again. Love that damned thing.
Maclintok, this is the video I used to set up ducking with VoiceMeeter. It's made my streams a TON better. Basically it lowers the game volume when you're talking but raises it back up when you stop. It's SO GREAT.
Oh kazar I too have a Stream Deck and love it, but I usually only use it for muting or unmuting different audio sources. It's so great. My favorite is my "Blow my Nose" button, which turns off the camera and mutes the mic when I press it, and then resumes them when I press it again. Love that damned thing.
I've seen one streamer who has a similar button, but it also puts a little muted microphone icon in the corner of his webcam window. That way he gets a lot less "you have a sound problem" messages from his chat.
Veloxi wrote:Oh kazar I too have a Stream Deck and love it, but I usually only use it for muting or unmuting different audio sources. It's so great. My favorite is my "Blow my Nose" button, which turns off the camera and mutes the mic when I press it, and then resumes them when I press it again. Love that damned thing.
I've seen one streamer who has a similar button, but it also puts a little muted microphone icon in the corner of his webcam window. That way he gets a lot less "you have a sound problem" messages from his chat.
Oh that is a GREAT idea. Thank you!
Anyone know anything about restream.io? I've been using it at church to simulcast to YouTube and Facebook. For the most part it works pretty well, but I do have one weird error that makes no sense.
When I schedule an event ahead of time, when I start streaming my cache fills up and the stream dies. If I just hit "go live now" everything works fine. The Internet tells me it's a bandwidth issue but I doubt that's the case. Scheduled events choke and die at the lowest setting while "go live now" works at high quality for over an hour.
The actual streaming is being done by an ATEM Mini Pro from Blackmagic Design. Something in there could be the problem.
I dunno what can be done. It's not a showstopper. It's just weird and frustrating and I wanted to vent.
I use restream.io every day, and I use their event system also every day. I don't have any kind of bandwidth issues at all. I just put the event stream key into OBS and it's off I go. I use a single PC to do everything so maybe I have fewer points of failure.
I also am using a small program they gave me called an Amplifier that has made my streams almost error-free. Maybe ask them about that. I've been using it for over a year now and I either get no or very few seconds of instability per stream.
My guess is it's something that neither Restream nor Blackmagic have run into because it only manifests when the two systems are used together.
That said, I should check and see if there's a firmware update for the ATEM switcher.
And barring that, I should see about rolling back to an earlier firmware. I've had to do that with other Blackmagic devices before.
My Church uses the ATEM Mini but we send the video to Castr, and from Castr it goes to Facebook (unscheduled) and YouTube (scheduled). We don't schedule through Castr, though, but YouTube itself. Any issues we have are usually on YouTube's end, which typically means "pray it will fix itself because you can do nothing".
I was able to apply for Affiliate status after 9 months of regular streaming on Twitch. This is putting an end to my Youtube multi-streaming for now but I don't think I'll miss it too much seeing as the red platform still has a ways to go to make live streams more attractive and accessible to their viewers.
I'm doing my first live stream as an Affiliate tonight @9:00pm PST. Haven't got too much planned...although I may put something silly on my face and I'll be doing a handful of Sub giveaways to lucky chatters near the end of the stream. C'mon down if it's not too late for your time zone & watch me get crushed in Sifu!
A big hearty THANK YOU to everyone here who's given me advice and taken the time to answer my silly questions over the past many months!
Congrats!
Congrats on affiliate!
What is everyone using as an overlay? I'd been using one I customized on player.me for years, and the twitch integration which showed latest and recent followers, as well as instant chat, resubs and all that jazz, well... all that has died, no amount of reconnecting accounts has helped. I tried contacting support, but two days later and still no reply. So I'm looking to make a change, no matter how attached I am to my current overlay. Any opinions, strong feelings either way? On any of the options?
StreamElements is what I've moved to recently. Their way of doing things took some getting used to since I was coming from Streamlabs, but once I grokked it I haven't had any issues with it.
I reached out to an artist to custom create me elements for my overlay, which are very slight. If you want PM and let me know and I can put you in touch with her.
Apologies, I suppose it was somewhat late and I wasn't entirely clear. It's not the graphical aspect of it, I've got that down at this point, it's the twitch chat and follower/subscription/cheer alerts that I'm missing.
At first, I bristled at the suggesion of StreamElements, but I was getting confused with StreamLabs (accused of unethical practices). Thank you for the suggestion, Beanman, looking into it!
Edit: StreamLabs is very awesome and fits my needs. Much appreciated!!!
Apologies, I suppose it was somewhat late and I wasn't entirely clear. It's not the graphical aspect of it, I've got that down at this point, it's the twitch chat and follower/subscription/cheer alerts that I'm missing.
At first, I bristled at the suggesion of StreamElements, but I was getting confused with StreamLabs (accused of unethical practices). Thank you for the suggestion, Beanman, looking into it!
Edit: StreamLabs is very awesome and fits my needs. Much appreciated!!!
I assume you mean StreamElements 
Glad it’s working for you.
Oh gosh. I’m never gonna those right, am I? 
Yea, thank you! I can’t wait to see it live. I went with the red flare, I’m only using the in game scene and tweaked it to high heaven. I don’t like having loads of the extra stuff, so I got rid of the entire bottom bar, for instance. I really appreciate that there are seasonal elements and an Extra Life integration.
What's a good solution for HDMI capture these days?
A friend of mine is doing some streaming as a hobby and is asking me about HDMI capture devices so he can get his Switch in on the action. Unfortunately for him I'm using a 4 port mixer that's complete overkill for his needs and don't really know what's what with the simpler dedicated hardware. A quick look at the Amazon Prime Day sales are showing solutions that range from $15-$200, which is quite the spread...
I use the non + version which works well. Elgato HD60 S+
I suspect the latest Windows 10 cumulative updates have completely fubar'd my Wave:1 microphone or WaveLink. The output has been throttled to a barely audible level despite no settings being touched and levels in WaveLink and OBS show normal volume. When I try increasing input or output gain for the mic in Wavelink, I can hear my voice slightly better but also get serious static/degradation.
Yeah, I guess I can try rolling back that last Win10 update but....why? Very frustrating.
See if there's an update for the mic as well as the wavelink software.
An update, or completely uninstall and reinstall the software and driver for the Wave. I haven't had that kind of issue with my Wave 3, but that's what I'd try first in that scenario.
Yeah no issues with my Wave:3 as well.
Thanks guys. I’m going to roll back those Windows updates.
I had updated Wavelink to v1.5 as well as the firmware but no dice. Granted I didn’t fully uninstall the software first.
Did a test stream last night and a crazy symptom I experienced was all game and mic audio was being piped out to the stream normally but in my monitors I couldn’t hear any dialogue. Only the dialogue! And the monitoring volume for the mic went back to zero despite working fine during a local recording. It’s all so bizarre.
Sigh yeah, you might need to do an uninstall and reinstall. I have to do that with VoiceMeeter for it to work properly after some nasty Windows updates.
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