Question I'm trying to "transfer" my headphone sound quality to my video for YouTube purposes, possible?

[danny009]

I set my default playback device my headset and sound comes directly from my headphones in game and windows. My goal is recording all the in game sounds via headphone via OBS (with in game audio style selected headphones as well) since headphones are better in quality than onboard sound, so my recording can result in same high quality to video to anyone listens on YouTube? or does YouTube eventaully ruins audio quality as well regardless of the settings? I'm trying to "transfer" my headset quality to my video if that's possible (from games)

Is this OK to do and possible? Thanks

 

[boju]

Your headphones are connected to onboard sound? Your headphones produce good sound but source is what's recorded, not after. Youtube wont degrade sound quality but hearing what you hear will be determined by the other guy's audio equipment.

 

[sizzling]

Do the headphones have their own usb soundcard/dongle? If yes there is no way to take the sound from that for the recording, the output is only to the headphones.

 

[hotaru.hino]

YouTube will re-encode videos you upload, but generally the quality of the audio isn't enough to worry about.

 

[gamerk316]

My goal is recording all the in game sounds via headphone via OBS (with in game audio style selected headphones as well) since headphones are better in quality than onboard sound...

I think there's a misunderstanding here on how audio works.

All the in-game audio you are hearing is stored as digital audio files on your PC. All your headphones are doing (assuming bluetooth) is taking that digital signal and converting it to analog for you to listen to. That's essentially what all soundcards do: Take a digital signal and convert it to analog.

What you are implying you want to do (and correct me if I'm misunderstanding this) is re-encode that analog signal back to digital. This is silly; not only does the actual process degrade audio quality, you need to remember that pretty much all gaming devices have trash input ports. You'd lose significant quality versus the existing digital files.

The files on your PC are already digital; youtube will convert them to whatever format it uses, and the quality of the conversion back to analog will be handled by the end-users audio equipment; you have no control over how good or bad that process is since its dependent on the users to convert the audio coming through youtube from digital back to analog again. The only thing you should worry about recording externally is your microphone input.

 

[TerryLaze]

you have no control over how good or bad that process is since its dependent on the users to convert the audio coming through youtube from digital back to analog again.

This is not 100% correct, you do have a little bit of control in that you can choose AAC-LC as the audio codec and use 384K bitrate which will force youtube to use a slightly better compression.