Capture card not sending audio through to the monitor

[brittle venture]

hello! I picked up a Atomos Nexus4K 2 days ago (cost me 100$ too so oof) and I want to stream my switch!

however I cannot hear ANYTHING...but everyone else can? when I test recordings the audio goes through flawlessly and the only way I can hear it is going into windows sound settings and enabling "listen to this device"

however...doing that makes the mic play it too which muddles the audio from when I speak...
in OBS (I don't use it but the tutorials show this as the fix) you can set audio outputs! including "output audio to desktop/stream"

am I blind or is there a setting in twitch studio to do this?
also is there a way of setting up a dedicated lagless popup window for capture input and have the rest of the stream layer show up in stream? (like border windows/Vtuber avatar)

[pale flame]

if it shows up in a webcam layer, the audio won't go through. if it comes through screen share layer, you have the option to route it to "desktop audio"

[brittle venture]

so I have a bad capture card then...

why is there no audio input funtion then? that would solve the issue too

[pale flame]

because it's under webcam. not sure if there is another way to bring in the sound. check windows side?

maybe voicemeeter can help with this. don't use advanced audio mixer

[grim jacinth]

Voice meter should help with that. Set your capture card as output aux1 (as long as windows sees the capture card) Then set your twitch studio to use the voice meter virtual sound card that aux1 is using.

[brittle venture]

I managed to get the sound working in a weird way!

I had to have my webcam setup and running in twitch studio first! then I plug in the capture card and after going to the "Control Panel" and going to "Sound" to get the tiny window with the devices listed...I went to the recording tab to the "digital audio interface" as the capture card liked to call itself...and then turned on "Listen to device" in the properties with the "default playback device" enabled

it sounds super weird but I don't have any audio twinning anymore!

but seriously I hope twitch studio makes a "audio input" system for the webcam styled capture cards!

[pale flame]

nice.

[brittle venture]

this does not work for discord however...not sure if I should bail on the capture card and get a better one or not

[pale flame]

was there anything wrong with the card?

[brittle venture]

well it heats up very fast...and having no screen-share capabilities is a pretty bad thing...plus for 100$ the amount of fiddly stuff I have to do just to get a half decent play is kinda a red flag as the video lag is horrible

I cannot change the settings at all so its just 1080/60fps all the time with no switching to 720 for saftey

[pale flame]

I see. it's your choice. supported cards are listed on the website. let me find it