Record my zoom meeting mic when open/on only

[swabbie]

On OBS, i mute the Mic/Aux because I dont want my recordings to capture my breathing while i'm just listening to a zoom call/meeting. But in doing this, when I speak or open my mic on the zoom meeting, OBS cant record my mic/voice because it is muted. Is there a way to record my microphone only when it is enabled or open in zoom?

 

[deFrisselle]

Add a Noise Filter and probably a Limiter Filter

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[AaronD]

OBS has a push-to-talk feature, that connects to a hotkey. If you get used to that, it's a lot better than anything automatic. If you already use that feature in Zoom, then you might even set OBS to use the same key.

 

[swabbie]

OBS has a push-to-talk feature, that connects to a hotkey. If you get used to that, it's a lot better than anything automatic. If you already use that feature in Zoom, then you might even set OBS to use the same key.

Thanks for the advice, there's also a push to mute option which is more useful for my situation

 

[pdqpat]

In OBS Settings > Audio > Global Audio devices, I chose Integrated Mic array.
In Hotkeys > Mic, I set CTRL+M for both mute and unmute (basically a toggle).
Normally record with Mic muted to prevent audio buzz.
When I want to talk in a Zoom meeting, I turn on Zoom audio, then in OBS I type CTRL+M to unmute the Mic. This produces instant noise but doesn't record my voice. What am I don't wrong?

 

[AaronD]

...unmute the Mic. This produces instant noise but doesn't record my voice...

So your mic is noisy. The question is, "Why?"

Is the room actually that noisy? Be brutally honest: your ears to a fantastic job of cleaning it up and ignoring the background, while the machine does not.

What about electrical noise that gets into the wiring for the mic? Things like a refrigerator, air conditioner, light dimmer, or even the computer itself.

It might be good to post a recording of that noise. Different problems sound different. A logfile wouldn't hurt too, from the same session that produced that recording. Help -> Log Files -> Upload... Copy/paste the URL that it gives you, both here and into the automated analyzer that you can get to from my signature.

 

[pdqpat]

OBS has a push-to-talk feature, that connects to a hotkey. If you get used to that, it's a lot better than anything automatic. If you already use that feature in Zoom, then you might even set OBS to use the same key.

How is push-to-talk supposed to work? There isn't a way to reverse it. In Zoom, lifting off the space bar turns the mic off.

 

[pdqpat]

So your mic is noisy. The question is, "Why?"

I'm not going to spend time on noise (built-in laptop mic) if I can't get the mic to recording my voice using a hotkey to turn it on.

 

[AaronD]

How is push-to-talk supposed to work? There isn't a way to reverse it. In Zoom, lifting off the space bar turns the mic off.

Zoom might be fixed-function, for all I know. OBS, at least, has both push-to-talk and push-to-mute, which return to the opposite state when you release the hotkey; and both Mute and Unmute functions that remain when you release the hotkey. Assigning the same hotkey to both in a pair, makes it a toggle.