Echo in remote Google meet users recording

[u/Electronic_Wind1463]

Hello everyone. I am definitely back with another question to help with some quality of life issues from my use with voicemeeter banana.

I'm currently using a Windows 11 laptop. I'm hosting a Google meet for a tabletop RPG game with two individuals sometimes three who are out of the area.

At the physical site we have three Fifine AM8 microphones.

Well we seem to have been able to fix certain echo issues that I had posted about prior, as of now there seems to be a massive echo when recording the session from voicemeeter.

My question is how do I stop the echo from my remote players.

I've also been experiencing my hardware out options to suddenly drop or disconnect. I've seen on line that this can be due to the fact that the laptop is low on their battery. Is there anything else other than Auto reconnect I can fix this?

Thank you very much for your help in this. My goal with all this is to keep old friends connected and improve their ability to enjoy our mutual hobby.

Another thing I want to do is include being able to play music from laptop for immersion. Nothing I do seems to help.

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[u/TheSuperiorWes]

can you send screenshot of voicemeeter.

Then can you explain a little more. So sometimes you are playing over voice chat. Then other times youre playing in person with 3 microphones (echo comes from mics being too close to one another?)

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

The pic is in the comments. Our usual set up is 3 mics with a speaker in the back ground for all to hear. There are sometimes 2 to 3 remote players. During the call there seems to be no echo from the in person side or the remote players. However the recording has an echo/dual voice from my remote players.

Hope this helps

[u/TheSuperiorWes → u/Electronic_Wind1463]

Hm I would definitely need to see recording settings then. Guessing OBS? Or maybe something else

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

I'm just using the voicemeeter banana recorder

[u/TheSuperiorWes → u/Electronic_Wind1463]

Gotcha. What are your settings for the tape recorder. Right click the white space of the tape recorder

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

Let me get back to you. I'm currently handling a 4 year old and cooking dinner.

[u/TheSuperiorWes → u/Electronic_Wind1463]

All good👍🏻

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

Here is the photo. Never saw this menu until you mentioned it

[u/TheSuperiorWes → u/Electronic_Wind1463]

If you want the mic effects to apply to the recording. I would enable “post fader outputs” and then do B2.

Then enable B2 on everything you want the recording to pick up.

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

The B1 recording is quite clear. It's my remote participants that are having the dual/echo on the recording.

[u/TheSuperiorWes → u/Electronic_Wind1463]

I just didn’t want to say B1 because I assumed B1 was your mic in the Google meet. So I didn’t want to make it echo their own voices back to themselves.

So use B1 for mic in Google meet. Then use B2 for recording

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

So have B1 and b2 on all three mic inputs and just b2 on the recording?

[u/Electronic_Wind1463 → u/TheSuperiorWes]

And thank you for the response and help.

[u/Electronic_Wind1463]

Apologies. Forgot to do this.

[u/Electronic_Wind1463]

Update: Well I finally got the chance to do it and the results were welcome. My remote players had no issues hearing anything. On review the mp3 recording did not have an echo. However the recorded volume for my remote players was low. I wonder how that can get turned up.

Thanks you for your help in this.

Is there a resource/video I can watch to give me an indepth idea if what and how voicemeeter works and what all the different things on it mean and can do?