TheRomanticsWB

I've been through pretty much everything. The noise is definitely occurring when I use the Line In and/or the Line Out from either PC. It's definitely not a live mic. I have a webcam and a mic going through my mixer connected. The thumping sound is a very fast, consistent cadence like interference being picked up by something in the systems. Everything is exactly the same as it was before I moved it. The only thing I know to try out next is to bypass both sound cards simultaneously and try a line conditioner as well as a ground loop isolator. I also randomly get the issue where using the line out from the main pc to the streaming pc's line in, will give me weird, underwater effects on the receiving pc when I plug into the headphone jack to listen. I've also replaced every single cable with new/different cables, one at a time, to see if that was the issue. It had no effect. This is the simplistic version of it. I'd love to get everything going through my mixer and then back into the streaming PC so I can manage sound a bit easier on the fly though.

Do I need isolators for every line or just the pc to pc line in/out? I was actually about to try this next but wasn't sure what to get or where to put it. Thanks for your help.

I signed up on these forums because I cannot find any information to help me out with my problem. I'm hoping you folks would be so kind as to provide some information. The problem: tons of noise/static/steady thumping sound in my audio. The scenario: I do a live streaming show on twitch.tv. I use two pc's to accomplish this. One pc is for actually playing the game on and the 2nd pc is for encoding the video and pushing it out to Twitch. I was previously running the Line Out from the gaming PC to the streaming PC's Line In. I was doing this using the motherboard sound which is Realtek. I have an Allen & Heath Zed FX10 (I don't use the effects) mixer that I run my Heil PR40 into using XLR. I then use the Record Out (L/R RCA down to 3.5mm) and split that into the streaming pc and the gaming pc so that I can have the mic going directly into both simultaneously. This is going in via the mic input on the motherboard sound card. I use a capture card in the streaming pc to capture my main screen that the game is being played on. Sound for the game just comes straight from the windows sound through the line out, into the line in of the streaming PC. I have the streaming PC Line In set to "listen". I then capture the final product on the streaming PC using a program called Xsplit and/or OBS to live stream that to Twitch. The problem lies in the Line Out/Line In situation. If I plug headphones into the streaming pc to listen to what it sounds like there, I get a TON of noise/static/thumping sounds as soon as I plug in the feed from the other PC to the line in port. I've done everything I can imagine. I even purchased a Focusrite 2i4 and used it on the streaming PC to completely bypass the soundcard using its line in/out instead and still, as soon as I plug in a line in coming from the other PC I get a ton of noise. It led me to believe that maybe the noise was coming from the other PC but I can't hear any noise on that PC when directly plugged in. I also tried bypassing the sound card on the gaming PC using the focusrite and then sending that output to the other pc and I get the same result. I just moved from a bedroom in my house into a bigger room I'm turning into an office. I do this for a living and this is about to make me pull my hair out. I've always had some of this type of noise on the very quiet end but it's overwhelmingly loud now and I just can't create any content with this noise level. I'm willing to do pretty much anything to fix it. I have a newborn that I take care of during the day time since I work from home and it's hard to get this sorted. I'll buy any kind of setup I need to buy to get this all working correctly. I would like to be able to run everything from both PC's into a mixer and then out from that into the streaming PC while still being able to hear using the monitor/headphone jack on the mixer. Can anyone please help me? Even if it's just to tell me what I SHOULD be doing and possibly an ideal setup? Thanks, Wes