OBS not recording mic when I try to split the audio tracks

[HeidiEm]

Hello,

I hope someone can help me! because posting on here is my last resort!
I'm trying to record gameplay along and with me on mic, at the moment I can only record the gameplay audio and my voice on one track. If I try to split the audio so I have it on two tracks, the recording is only picking up the game and not me. I dont think its a mic issue because if I record with all the audio tracks ticked, then it picks up my mic, no problem.
I've spent the last two days trying to figure out the issue and followed so many tutorials etc but nothing seems to be working. Here is the set up I've got, please can someone help me figure out where I'm going wrong :(

 

[deFrisselle]

What are you using to playback the video It either doesn't support multi-track audio or doesn't have channel 2 turned on
You could set them both to be recorded on track 1 plus also each on a different second channel That way you get all the audio in video players and can have separated audio for editing So, like game audion on tracks 1 and 2 then mic audio on tracks 1 and 3

 

[koala]

No media player will mix tracks and play multiple audio tracks simultaneously. You can switch between tracks in the player, but you will always hear only one track at a a time. Multi track recording is meant for postprocessing. You import the audio tracks into some postprocessing software, mix them, and replace the separate tracks with the mixed tracks.
For a mix preview, record an additional track as track 1 where you activate every source: track 1=all sources, track 2=desktop audio only, track 3=mic source only.

 

[AaronD]

Yet a third way to say the same thing:
OBS *is* recording everything. It's all in the file. Your player is simply set for Track 1.

 

[HeidiEm]

Hello, thank you all for the replies! I thought maybe its the media player I'm using to watch back but even if I put the video into my editing software (Filmora) its only showing one track and its the game audio I can see/hear not my mic, see example below, that movement in the audio is game only.

 

[koala]

According to your first screenshots, you OBS is actually writing 2 audio tracks to the video. It seems your video editor isn't able to recognize this. To verify if there are actually 2 audio tracks, use something like MediaInfo or simply play it back with a media player that has the option to switch between audio tracks (for example VLC or MPC-HC) and see if it sees the 2 tracks and enables you to switch between them.

 

[AaronD]

Here's a free (and quite good!) editor that can see all the tracks:

Shotcut - Home

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

shotcut.org

I recorded a few seconds with all 6 for that screenshot. If you only record 2, then you'll only see those 2 there.

 

[HeidiEm]

Koala, you saved the day! I downloaded VLC and OBS did record the tracks but my media player wouldn't pick both of them up and I had to do some tweaking in Filmora to actually pull out the tracks separately. So now I can finally split my audio. Thank you so so much, I was ready to rage quit :)

Aaron - thank you for the suggestion, I will give that editor a look!

 

[MonkeyPutter]

Hi. I'm new to OBS and I have the exact same issue as HeidiEm (I have the same config). I have downloaded VLC Media Player but my Mic is still not being picked up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.