Playback detecting Input Devices & Recording detecting Output Devices

Anglachel · 28 Jan 2019

Hello!

Today, I was playing SCP: Secret Laboratory. After I finished, I went and made tea. When I came back much later to play some more, I found that the in-game voice chat was not working for me; my microphone was not transmitting in-game.
Looking into my Steam settings, I found that all my input devices were actually my output devices, and all my output devices were actually input devices. I initially thought this was an issue with Steam, so I restarted Steam and my PC.
However, when the problem did not resolve, I looked to my sound settings and found that even in there, my playback devices detected inputs as outputs and recording devices detected outputs as inputs.

How am I able to fix this problem?

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The VoiceMeeter inputs and outputs are from a sound managing device called VoiceMeeter Banana that I installed to allow for the creation of virtual line ins.

HeM · 28 Jan 2019

Hi and welcome!

This is absolutely normal!
What you see as "Input" in Playback tab, actually it is an input (like all the rest, system audio inputs).

Setting VoiceMeeter as Default (in Playback tab), means that system audio playback goes to VoiceMeeter for processing and NOT to your speakers.

If you want to listen to what's VoiceMeeter doing (the reason you got it, I think), you must go to Recording tab, open VoiceMeeter Output Properties -> Listen tab, check "Listen to this device" box and right below, specify the desired listening output.

This is the only way to listen to processed sound and that's the way those apps work.

Anglachel said:

... my microphone was not transmitting in-game. ...

Perhaps, you should set your Mic as Default, in Recording tab, for your game (or VoiceMeeter) to access it. There is no reason for VoiceMeeter to be set as Default in Recording tab, except of recording purposes.

Hope that helps!

Anglachel · 29 Jan 2019

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, what you suggested did not work for me, so I have just uninstalled VoiceMeeter and am using my default recording devices. The main reason I installed VoiceMeeter was to configure the sound quality of my microphone and also to play music & sound effects through it.

Thank you again <3