 If you use Ecamm Live and you're getting some echo issues with your audio, then I've got a few potential solutions and fixes that you might want to know about coming up in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, I'm gonna look at basically three different possible causes and solutions for Echo that you may be getting in your audio when recording or live streaming in Ecamm Live. Now there are obviously a whole host of external audio devices that you may have that may be causing echo, but I'm just gonna focus on some of the ones that you could have control of within Ecamm Live itself. And incidentally, I'm making this video because it came up as a question in the Ecamm Live Facebook group. And so if you're using Ecamm Live and you weren't aware of the Facebook group, then definitely head over to facebook.com slash groups slash Ecamm Live because in there you'll find a whole group of wonderful people who are just there to help each other along and share their experiences of using Ecamm Live. It really is a wonderful community. So with that said, let's get over to the little demonstration that I'm gonna give you today. So first of all, the exact question was related to an interview mode and there was an echo with the people that were on the interview. And I'm not sure of the exact details, but I'm basically just gonna show you three different options that you may want to look at. So if I come into my live demo mode and you can see my full screen, the first cause that some people have with Echo is let's just use the example of me. I'm using a short MV7 microphone and it has a built-in monitor. So I do have my earphones in my monitors. But if I come up to the options menu at the top and you look at the output, there is also an option for audio monitor. So some people get confused that they need to actually activate this within Ecamm Live to be able to hear their audio back. But I can actually hear obviously my own sound coming from my microphone into my monitors. And I've also got my system audio feeding into this microphone as well. But if you put on audio monitor and I was to select that one, that would actually feed back my voice again, but with a slight delay. So it would sound in my monitors, in my earphones that there was an echo. So that is one reason that some people say that there is an echo because they've got this output set here and it is sort of duplicating the monitoring effect in their headphones. Now, if I didn't have my headphones on at all and I was to select some external speakers. So for example, this one is actually my screen, my screen monitor speakers. So if I was to have the audio monitor set to on and select one of these, then we would start getting feedback of the audio back from the speakers. So in fact, if I just switch that on, you can hear what is going on. It's echoing back. So that is one place to always check that you've got this output, not going somewhere where you can actually physically hear it because it will cause that echo. So then another option that you may want to have a look at is if we go into the preferences, so I'll come into the Ecamm Live preferences and that is by clicking on this little cog wheel over on this side or also going into the Ecamm Live menu and going to the preferences or it is also from the keyboard shortcut command comma. Now, when you go into here, there are a couple of sections that you may want to consider related to the echo. So first of all is if we go into the audio tab, here you can see I've got my speakers set to my, this is my short MB7, which is also is the microphone, but it's also has the monitors. So it is the output as well. So at the moment, the sound from my, everything going through Ecamm Live is going to the short MB7, everything except the microphone that is. And then if I click on this and I was to change this one to the monitor, then again, this one would have the sound then going out for everything that's playing through the production, all of that sound would be going out to my speakers. So if I did have guests in the production, then their voices and things like that and any audio that was playing would be going out over those speakers. And so you would potentially hear some of that back. Now, if I've got it onto a, now that actually is over USB, so it's a USB speaker, but if you've got some sort of built in speakers, then you do have this option to use echo cancellation. So with the, when it's going over USB to my monitor, then there isn't this option. And if it's going over USB to my microphone, where I've got my in ear monitors, you don't have this echo cancellation. But if you've got some speakers that are actually plugged into the, you know, the headphone or the speaker port of your computer, then what you should see is that you have this echo cancellation option. So depending on the output that you have selected in this speakers section here, you may or may not be able to highlight this. Got some speakers plugged straight into my mic mini. I'd be able to use echo cancellation, but the ones that are working is not there. So it's disabled for the current output, but that is another way that you can control the echo potentially. The final one that I want to talk about in terms of echo is more to do with the interviewees side of things. So here you've got this one option here, which is turn audio processing for guests, turn off audio processing, I should say, for guests. And this is called musician mode. So sometimes you may hear people refer to that as well. Normally what happens is that ECAM Live will do the job of the echo cancellation on the guest side. So if they aren't wearing headphones, it will deal with all of the mix minus sort of stuff. So mix minus is basically where it's taking out whatever's been broadcast over to them and it's taking that out of anything that's been fed back to you. So normally ECAM Live is handling that all automatically. But if you have this one here toggled on, then it won't do any of the echo cancellation. So if you're feeling like you're getting or you're hearing that you are getting echo coming back from your guests, then it's definitely worth coming in and just checking to see that you've got this one unchecked. So you want it, if it is unchecked, it will be doing the echo cancellation. If you have this one checked like that, it will turn off any processing and so then you will get echo back from them unless your guests are wearing headphones. The best option is, in all cases, to actually try to wear in ear monitors, if at all possible, it will lead to a better experience for you and your guests and the overall production. But those are the three ways that you may want to consider echo, looking into echo troubleshooting. So first of all, let's just quickly recap those again is either in the interview mode, just make sure that you have this one unchecked. So that it is doing the correct audio processing. The next one is to look in your audio settings and if you have got your... If it's possible to turn on this echo cancellation and the final one is to just check that you have the output, you don't have any audio monitor selected and that one is turned off. So I hope that that has been useful in terms of troubleshooting some echo. As I say, there is any number of potential causes for echo if you're using things like loopback or if you're using other software or third-party devices to basically control your audio. There can be all sorts of manner of ways that you might get echo filtering into your system somehow. But those are the three ways that you may want to check if you want to just check the e-cam settings first. Well, I hope you've found that useful. If you did find it useful, then don't forget to go and like and subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so that you get notified whenever I make any new videos. And speaking of videos, there is plenty more e-cam live content coming up next in the playlist to the bottom right. So until the next video, have a great day, everyone.