Hey all,
I've been using a Tascam Model 24 mixer for the last couple of years and recently I built a new PC to use with that mixer. Everything had been working great for the past 7-8 months with this new PC and then all of a sudden, I couldn't record my mics. They weren't being picked up at all. I could hear audio from Spotify fine and I could hear the mics fine in my headphones. But in OBS but for some reason OBS stopped picking up my mics. I tinkered with things and had gotten nowhere.
I was told I needed to try and use Ardour or Reaper and send the audio into the mixer that way. But now I have a couple of new issues arising. First I tried Ardour last night. The mics were setup in Ardour and were working great with OBS last night. But Ardour seems to cancel out all of the audio coming from Spotify. I can no longer hear the audio from the PC. I can hear the mics fine and I see the levels moving in OBS fine now. But Spotify is now dead in my ears. I can see it picking up in OBS, but I can't hear Spotify. I'm very much confused here.
I have my IEMs (In Ear Monitors) connected to the interface. That may be my issue. But when I connect to the sound card in the PC, I hear nothing at all. I need to configure things though in the sound settings I think. I believe I was still listening through the Tascam. I'll look at that later again. But, now, I've installed qjackctl and now I'm getting this weird constant level in OBS. I can't hear what's going on probably because my IEMs are still connected to the Tascam. I definitely need to reorganize the audio listening setup I think in order to hear what's coming out of and going to the PC.
One thing I noticed though, when I am using Ardour, I'm not sure how the audio is getting to OBS excepth through the integrated sound card itself in the computer.
I'm not going to lie, I am sort of new to this mixer thing. But I had it all going well until something beyond my control (update possibly) changed. So, I'm sort of in a bind here and don't know where to go next. I'm hoping that rerouting my IEMs to the sound card will cast a better light on things for me. It's definitely all making it to the sound card but some of it isn't making it to the mixer for some reason like it was before.
As I said, this worked fine up until about a month ago. I'm pretty sure it was an update that messed something up. I can't understand though how to fix it. Without Ardour I have no mics coming to OBS. But with Ardour, I have no PC audio (Spotify) going to the IEMs. So, I'm kind of confused and I think over inundated with things going wrong and changing, it's just confusing me to no end.
I'm going to reroute my IEMs to the sound card for sure and try and get all the audio to go out that way and see what happens. Hopefully it'll all fall into place.
Unless someone knows of a possible fix to some software, please let me know. I hate when things work great and then all of a sudden it doesn't just out of the blue.
I should point out that my PC is an ASUS mothergoard with an Intel i7 14th Gen CPU. 64GB of RAM. 2 TB Hard Drive and a fresh install of Linux Mint. I was running Arch. I'd much prefer Arch but I reinstalled Arch earlier yesterday and the mixer was not found for some reason so I went back to Linux Mint.
That's another thing... Stupidly, I switched from Arch that I had been using since I built that machine over to Ubuntu Studio. I really did not like that at all. so I switched. Mainly because I didn't like flatpaks or snaps. I think I went to Linux Mint from there. Then someone on Reddit mentioned I should use AV Linux MX edition. I tried it and Pipewire wouldn't load... Oops... So I went back to Arch and couldn't find my mixer then now I'm in Linux Mint again. As I said, I'd much prefer Arch but if there's a driver issue or something with Arch, I probably souldn't be using it. So, right now I'm in Mint. I'm fine with Mint being the distro. So I will stay with it for now unless someone says Arch is the better way to go. I think Arch may be the reason why things got messed up in the first place but it might have been fixable. I don't know.
I'm just venting at this point. If anyone has any suggestions, please send them my way. It'll be much appreciated!
I've been using a Tascam Model 24 mixer for the last couple of years and recently I built a new PC to use with that mixer. Everything had been working great for the past 7-8 months with this new PC and then all of a sudden, I couldn't record my mics. They weren't being picked up at all. I could hear audio from Spotify fine and I could hear the mics fine in my headphones. But in OBS but for some reason OBS stopped picking up my mics. I tinkered with things and had gotten nowhere.
I was told I needed to try and use Ardour or Reaper and send the audio into the mixer that way. But now I have a couple of new issues arising. First I tried Ardour last night. The mics were setup in Ardour and were working great with OBS last night. But Ardour seems to cancel out all of the audio coming from Spotify. I can no longer hear the audio from the PC. I can hear the mics fine and I see the levels moving in OBS fine now. But Spotify is now dead in my ears. I can see it picking up in OBS, but I can't hear Spotify. I'm very much confused here.
I have my IEMs (In Ear Monitors) connected to the interface. That may be my issue. But when I connect to the sound card in the PC, I hear nothing at all. I need to configure things though in the sound settings I think. I believe I was still listening through the Tascam. I'll look at that later again. But, now, I've installed qjackctl and now I'm getting this weird constant level in OBS. I can't hear what's going on probably because my IEMs are still connected to the Tascam. I definitely need to reorganize the audio listening setup I think in order to hear what's coming out of and going to the PC.
One thing I noticed though, when I am using Ardour, I'm not sure how the audio is getting to OBS excepth through the integrated sound card itself in the computer.
I'm not going to lie, I am sort of new to this mixer thing. But I had it all going well until something beyond my control (update possibly) changed. So, I'm sort of in a bind here and don't know where to go next. I'm hoping that rerouting my IEMs to the sound card will cast a better light on things for me. It's definitely all making it to the sound card but some of it isn't making it to the mixer for some reason like it was before.
As I said, this worked fine up until about a month ago. I'm pretty sure it was an update that messed something up. I can't understand though how to fix it. Without Ardour I have no mics coming to OBS. But with Ardour, I have no PC audio (Spotify) going to the IEMs. So, I'm kind of confused and I think over inundated with things going wrong and changing, it's just confusing me to no end.
I'm going to reroute my IEMs to the sound card for sure and try and get all the audio to go out that way and see what happens. Hopefully it'll all fall into place.
Unless someone knows of a possible fix to some software, please let me know. I hate when things work great and then all of a sudden it doesn't just out of the blue.
I should point out that my PC is an ASUS mothergoard with an Intel i7 14th Gen CPU. 64GB of RAM. 2 TB Hard Drive and a fresh install of Linux Mint. I was running Arch. I'd much prefer Arch but I reinstalled Arch earlier yesterday and the mixer was not found for some reason so I went back to Linux Mint.
That's another thing... Stupidly, I switched from Arch that I had been using since I built that machine over to Ubuntu Studio. I really did not like that at all. so I switched. Mainly because I didn't like flatpaks or snaps. I think I went to Linux Mint from there. Then someone on Reddit mentioned I should use AV Linux MX edition. I tried it and Pipewire wouldn't load... Oops... So I went back to Arch and couldn't find my mixer then now I'm in Linux Mint again. As I said, I'd much prefer Arch but if there's a driver issue or something with Arch, I probably souldn't be using it. So, right now I'm in Mint. I'm fine with Mint being the distro. So I will stay with it for now unless someone says Arch is the better way to go. I think Arch may be the reason why things got messed up in the first place but it might have been fixable. I don't know.
I'm just venting at this point. If anyone has any suggestions, please send them my way. It'll be much appreciated!
