Then, OBS is eligible to record sounds from this new default audio device. There, right-click on the device which you want to record a sound from, and click Set Default. On your desktop, right-click on the Speaker, go to Sounds and move to the Recording module. What you need to do is to manually set up the audio device as default. If you plug in a new one, your computer won’t set it as a default recording device automatically since there’s already one. That’s because there’s already a default audio input/output device that supports recording. Such a possibility also occurs when you insert a microphone device, it can catch your voice and you cannot record the voice though. When you insert a new speaker device into your computer, you may hear the sound from it but you may not record the sound from it. Method 3 Set the target audio device as default The two options decide whether OBS is allowed to record any audio on your computer.

Check if OBS and System Sounds are muted or not, unmute them if they are. On the Volume Mixer interface, you will see several app audios on your PC. To find out if it’s muted, right-click Speaker on the bottom right corner of the desktop and select Open Volume Mixer from the drop-down list. If your OBS is muted on the system, it cannot record any sound. You may go back to Audio Mixer where the new source will be listed. Here, you can choose to add Audio Input Capture, an option that OBS will catch the external sound coming from a microphone.Ĭhoose a microphone device and click OK to confirm. To add a microphone source, go to Sources on OBS, right-click on the area of Sources, move to Add. In this case, you need to add a new microphone source. If OBS is still not recording sound from the microphone, likely, OBS cannot detect the default microphone.

Microphone is picking up output sound