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Audio can be tricky when you're live streaming.
There can be a lot of issues.
Wait a second.
My audio was out of sync there, right?
Yeah.
Well, that's annoying.
And I'm going to show you how to fix that along with loud, screeching,
echoing, static, or popping and delays.
And those are just a few of the problems that you might encounter.
Today I'm going to tell you the five things you should check first to
fix your audio issues on your live streams.
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Delay and lag are the most common audio complaints on live streams.
These issues are 90% due to encoding lag and computer performance.
Now the five things I'm going to show you today, build on each other
and will help you troubleshoot 99% of all your streaming audio issues.
So you're going to want to watch all the way to the end to make sure
you get all the steps.
The first thing you should check for audio issues is the stats window.
So while you're live streaming, you go into OBS, you go to view, and
then you're going to go to stats and it's bringing up this stats
window right here.
You can see, I brought this up while I was live streaming, and it
shows you the CPU usage that you have over here on the left, in the
top pane, you have your frames per second.
The average amount of time it takes to render a frame, and then you
have your render and your encoding lag.
And this is going to be shown by frames drop.
In this case, I had 21 frames dropped from render lag, and zero frames
dropped from encoding lag.
If this is bad for you, one of these will be in red.
So now our real options are to go ahead in and resize our stream so
that we can actually stream in a proper way.
So we're going to go into settings.
We're going to go into video.
We'll just scale this down to seven 20, so, okay.
We're going to be all right.
Even at seven 20, you can pick 30 or 60 frames per second, whichever
you want.
If you want to try seven 20 and 60, that's fine too.
Now you're going to go through and resize your assets in your stream
to seven 20.
That means your overlays and your transitions and anything that you
use that is previously in 10 80, you want to resize it to seven 20 and
then you want to optimize it, which means running it through some sort
of thing that converts it into web M.
I have videos on how this is done and you can check it out right up
here, and it'll take you to show you how to optimize your stream.
And this should fix your audio issue, if you're having laggy audio or
something like that.
The second place you have to check to fix the issue is your USB
bandwidth set up.
USB buses had a limited amount of bandwidth.
And what that means is there's only so many things that you can plug
in to them and send through them before they get bogged down, because
there's just too much information.
This can become a problem if you're using a separate camera and a
separate microphone, if both of them are plugged into the same USB
bus, you can definitely have sync issues because the USB system just
doesn't have the bandwidth to actually be able to handle it.
So what you want to do is make sure that you plug your camera and your
microphone into completely different buses on your PC.
The way you can do this is if you have a laptop, one will probably be
on one side and one will be on the other.
Or if you have a desktop, there are some USB buses, usually on the top
or the front.
And then there is of course the USBs on the back as well.
And if you put your USBs in these different locations, chances are,
they will end up on completely different buses and you won't run into
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So you've probably resolved your audio delay issues, but the second
common issue is feedback and echoing.
The third thing you should check to fix your audio problems is your
headphone and guest audio settings.
If you want to be bringing on guests, then you're going to need to use
headphones.
It is what it is.
Not only that, but the guests that you bring on should be using
headphones.
And the reason why is because if the guest's audio is coming through
your speakers, it's going to feed back into your microphone.
And this will cause echo and screeching and all that sort of stuff.
And the same thing applies for your guests.
If they're listening to the stream, it's feeding back into their
microphone.
They should be listening to you through their headphones and nothing
else.
They don't need to see the stream.
They should be listening to you.
Now, what I've done in some of my streams where the guests might need
to see what's actually going on is whatever guest application I'm
using, I share my screen with them so that they can see what the
stream looks like.
They don't need to hear it because they're listening and having a
conversation with me.
You need to make it clear to your guests, that they need to be wearing
headphones.
And they do not need to be listening to the stream.
This will solve like almost all of your echoing and screeching
problems that you're having on your live streams.
And if that's not the culprit, we do need to dig a bit further.
The fourth thing we need to check is other audio sources that are on
the computer.
Here are the two, the main offenders that can cause echo or feedback
on your live stream.
So right here, I have a live stream running and this right here needs
to be muted.
You can't accidentally have this going and not be muting your live
stream right here.
If this is not muted and you're capturing your desktop audio or it's
coming through your speakers, it's going to cause all kinds of echo
and problems on your stream.
So make sure it's muted.
In the same vein.
If you are in your live stream, like we see right here and the stream
is not muted, or your guest stream is not muted right here, it is also
going to cause all of the same kind of problems.
And this is the case for any audio that's going to play on your
computer if it's not coming through your headphones and you're
capturing desktop audio, it's going to cause problems.
Make sure that everything that you don't want to hear or is not part
of your live stream is muted on your computer and the computers of all
of your guests.
And this will solve a large portion of people's echoing audio problems
and everything else.
There are also miscellaneous issues that some people experience with
audio like static or audio clicking and popping stuff.
The fifth thing that you need to check is the condition of your
equipment.
If you're getting crackling and popping and that sort of thing through
your microphone, you really need to check your actual equipment.
Usually if something has a USB input, you want to check and make sure
wiggle around the port that it goes into, see that it's not loose.
And then you want to check the cable that you're actually using.
USB cables go bad.
So you want to check to make sure the connector it goes in is not
loose or wiggly.
You want to check to make sure the cable is good.
You can easily just replace these cables to try another one.
And that will verify whether the cable is bad.
You also want to check the USB port that you're plugging it into for
XLR microphones, it's the same deal.
XLR cables go bad.
They're thicker.
They get bent or crimped or whatever.
And sometimes they don't have a good connection, which can cause
crackling.
So you want to check all the ports.
The same is true on any cable.
This one has the cable built right in.
You know, if I'm getting crackling and popping, I want to check to
make sure that all this is loose.
I want to make sure the port I'm plugging it into is not loose or
wiggly or anything like that.
That's the source of a lot of crackling and popping.
The other thing that you want to do is make sure that you adjust the
volume on the input in OBS.
If you're getting peaking, that could cause crackles and all sorts of
popping and that sort of thing.
So check your equipment and check your level, checking those two
things should resolve all the crackling and popping and static and
anything like that, that you're going to get on your microphones.
Now with this information, you should be able to troubleshoot any
audio issue in OBS pretty easily.
But you may be experiencing audio lag.
And this could be due to the fact that you have a lot of processing
set up on the audio.
And if that's the case, you can try this to resync your audio.
Okay, so your video and audio are coming into OBS through the same
connection.
We're going to right click on it and we're going to go to filters.
And then we're going to click the plus and we're going to go to render
delay and click okay, and you're going to do this if your video is
coming before your audio.
So in other words, your video is processing faster than your audio for
some reason.
And you just use this right here to add a delay to that video so that
it aligns up with your audio.
So if you're hearing your audio before the video is finished
processing, or your audio is fast, we need to go down here in our
audio mixer.
And we're going to click on this little gear button and we're going to
go to advanced audio properties.
And right here, we can select the audio that we need to delay to line
up with the video.
And then we can just adjust this by milliseconds.
And you're going to be able to line up your audio.
Now, if your computer is having any kind of problems, needless to say
this isn't going to fix it because those problems are going to be
inconsistent.
Sometimes the delay will be shorter or longer, but if your delay is
due to the fact that you're putting some sort of audio processing or
video processing on your output, well then either of those could be
delayed by a few milliseconds and this will adjust those properly.
If you want to see how to create an awesome stinger transition for
your live stream, you should check this video out right here.
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