Voicemeteer also seems to be a mystery to y’all.

I don’t appreciate your condescending tone, tbh. If you are not interested in helping us, you can stop replying.

Voicemeteer was taking our two mics and turning them into a single source that we could then feed to Discord and OBS. That should be it. I’m not completely sure it wasn’t applying some other kind of filters, but I don’t think it was, that’s not what it’s supposed to do. So let’s say we have Mic Source 1 and Mic Source 2. Voicemeteer took the input from both of those and combined them into Combined Source. We then pointed OBS and Discord to use Combined Source. That’s all we’re trying to achieve on Linux right now.

Krisp is a feature of Discord. It is available on Linux. We have used this post to accomplish what we want to do with Discord, but this solution does not work for OBS. On Discord, others on call do not report hearing this echo effect. It only appears in OBS recording when we use Mic Source 1 and Mic Source 2. I am not convinced that Krisp is a factor here, as we have tested with it off, but I felt it was worth mentioning. It seems to have confused the situation though.

(reposting this in a higher comment for other people to potentially see)

Y’all need carpet on the floors, maybe something on the walls, and to be facing each other from across the table with cardiod mics.

The room is not professionally treated for sound, but we do have one wall (behind the mics) 90% covered with 2" sound dampening foam. Lots of stuff on the other walls, rugs, etc. It is not a bare-bones room. Our mics are good quality cardioid mics and while our setups are not 180° back-to-back, the mics point away from each other when in use. I don’t know if I can explain well enough with words, but we sit side-by-side with the mics between us on arms. They swing down between us, stretch out towards us, and point away from each other. They are about 1.5 to 2 feet apart from each other, pointed away, when in use.

The room is not professionally treated for sound, but we do have one wall (behind the mics) 90% covered with 2" sound dampening foam. Lots of stuff on the other walls, rugs, etc. It is not a bare-bones room. Our mics are good quality cardioid mics and while our setups are not 180° back-to-back, the mics point away from each other when in use. I don’t know if I can explain well enough with words, but we sit side-by-side with the mics between us on arms. They swing down between us, stretch out towards us, and point away from each other. They are about 1.5 to 2 feet apart from each other, pointed away, when in use.

You’re right, that would help. I am not 100% sure that it was not applying some kind of echo/noise filtering. If you’re aware of any software that can do this on linux, we will try that.

A software solution is fine for us. We cannot change mic arrangement any more than it already is due to physical restraints in room. The mics are faced away from each other. They are good quality XLR mics and run through a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2.

You were depending on heavy real time post processing in software

Are you talking about Voicemeteer?

what are you recording for

We play TTRPGs online via Discord and FoundryVTT, and record the sessions. We use OBS to capture webcams on Discord, the virutal tabletop, desktop audio for other people’s voices/music from the vtt, and mic audio for our voices.

On Windows, we used Voicemeteer to combine our mics. We could use this resulting combination for both OBS and Discord. Since we cannot find similar software so far for linux, we came across the solution I linked above. It works for getting our mics to be combined into one for Discord, but doesn’t show up as an input in OBS. We cannot get OBS to “listen to” the combined sink output.

So, instead, we just set them up as two different mics in OBS. This would be fine, except the recording as the echo problem. Over Discord, I assume because it’s getting Krisp noise suppression applied, there is no echo. But after listening to the OBS recording, there is echo. So, a software solution to noise/echo suppress might be what we need as well, but that’s why we’re asking for help.

We have a setup that works fine with Windows, so I refuse accept that we cannot make it work the same way with Linux. I feel like a lot of people here are not focusing on the main questions we had about how we can achieve a goal.

We figured out how to merge the mic inputs into a single sink, but it’s an output. We used this post to achieve it. This helps us, and works for Discord. On Discord the echo is not a problem, but it’s using the built in Krisp to do noise suppression, so that might be part of it.

On Windows, as described in OP, we used VoiceMeteer to combine the inputs. It’s possible this was achieving some kind of noise suppression too, but I don’t see how or why that would be the case. Either way, in Windows, there is no echo problem. We use the same exact setup to be on Discord and record our inputs through OBS without any echo.

Yes they do. They’re literally quoting the recall notice.

Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled power banks and contact Anker Innovations for instructions on receiving a free replacement power bank.

It is normal to use single quotes in a headline or subheading.

But this meme coin has certainly only enriched him. So that’s a weird thing to comment on response to this.

At the very least.

I’m honestly still not in favour of it until the jobs they are replacing are adequately taken care of. If AI is the future, we need more safety nets. Not after AI takes over, before.

Honestly doesn’t fill me with that much schadenfreude. This just enriches Trump.

Insane that it’s still 40k registrations.

They’ll stick us in pods and use us as batteries!

Sounds like they are achieving their goal.

That’s an insult to shit.

Pretty sure we got a glimpse of the truck driver political spectrum a few years ago.

I am zero percent surprised.

Actually, no you don’t.

I’ve tried quite a few but right now the longest surviving one is Manjaro. This system still dual boots (technically a actually triple boot lol), so you can fix the issue.

I also have Fedora on another pc and I don’t care for it. I also have dabbled very lightly with Debian (hosting some services), Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Endeavour, Cachy, Mint, KDE Neon, and PopOS.

I have liked the Arch based distros the most so far, and highly prefer KDE Plasma as a desktop environment.

I had a very similar issue when starting my Linux journey, also on a laptop running windows 11. I could not actually fix the issue until I tried installing a different distro entirely.

Check it Ventoy, it’s become a handy tool for me. Lets you have several bootable ISOs or images on a single USB.