Why is game voice chat so quiet in my recordings?

[taflinder]

I am using a capture card to capture Call of Duty on my xbox and it picks up the game audio fine but the random people in voice chat which I can hear fine through my headset is completely silent in my capture. Can I fix this?

 

[brandtsman]

Capturing the incoming voice chat means, capturing "desktop audio".

What you would need is a route, either with a audio cable or digital via software, to route that audio into your capture card/stream.
But remember, that this might result in loopback.

Question as always is: How and with what gears do you do what you do. A technical drawing would light up the way.

The simple streaming setup PDF shows a basic scenario, which is independent from gears and software.
Please consider to create such a technical drawing for your scenario along with the gears and software in charge.

 

[taflinder]

Capturing the incoming voice chat means, capturing "desktop audio".

What you would need is a route, either with a audio cable or digital via software, to route that audio into your capture card/stream.
But remember, that this might result in loopback.

Question as always is: How and with what gears do you do what you do. A technical drawing would light up the way.

The simple streaming setup PDF shows a basic scenario, which is independent from gears and software.
Please consider to create such a technical drawing for your scenario along with the gears and software in charge.

I am really new to this and I did a bit of research and figured it out I do need a extra cable. But can I do it via software like you mentioned?

 

[brandtsman]

I am really new to this and I did a bit of research and figured it out I do need a extra cable. But can I do it via software like you mentioned?

Really it depends on the scenario and gears in use.
I am capable of doing what you want to do, since I have separate gears along with their software in use.
I will shortly upload a video on my YouTube channel to explain such scenarios. Maybe I will go in detail there.

Prior to be saying something a technical drawing would be great.

Take a piece of paper, a pencil and draw it. Then, take a photo and upload it.

That will light up the way.