What if Nintendo made a TV only Switch with a laptop RTX, it's expensive for sure, AAAAND lets you use a Switch lite if you want as a Wii U-like gamepad (Mario Kart Live shows the local short-range network stuff can transmit video just fine)?
Here's how I record and share my game video and audio with my friends:
Consoles go out into a 4k60 HDMI switcher->4k60 HDMI Splitter (One to my monitor, capture card, NDI encoder and HDMI audio extractor)->22 IN/12 OUT digital mixer
This game is early access and needs to add more explanations of how it's basic mechanics work. So the Spirit Box isn't working because they're using the game's radio, but the game uses the proximity-based voice system to let it know where you are in the house in relation to the ghost's hidden position, which is push-to-talk by default (if you're playing with friends turn that off so it's on all the time and deafen your discord call, it's way more fun when you hear your friend's muffled screams in the next room and when the ghost attacks your radios stop working meaning you have to raise your voice to be heard and call for help).
A lot of the game's mechanics need you to use the in-game voice. When the Spirit Box works you hear the ghost's voice saying a word. The in-game radio comms attract the ghost.
Oh man, they didn't use the in-game proximity chat and radio system. That's a bummer. This game loses a lot when you don't use the in-game voice chat system.
If you guys play Phasmophobia, you have to play it with the in-game chat. The proximity voice and radio system is super cool and core to the experience. If you play co-op, it's worth playing with 3 or 4 people.
I've been trying to talk to my friends I record stuff with about switching to a mixer and XLR mic setup. I haven't been able to talk them into it yet.
Then again, I'm a crazy person with a 16-channel mixer (Allen & Heath QU-16) running a 16 in/8-out expansion box (A&H AB168). This mixes everything with audio into the main mix in my headphones, 3 separate sub-mixes for a VoIP call, streaming software, and if needed game chat (if I need to separate my mic out and use in-game chat)... Also while using the USB multitrack recording to record all those channels to separate .wav files in Adobe Audition... walking them through all this terrifies them and I totally understand why.
But once you get it and wrap your head around it, you're extremely dextrous with your audio. If you're going to do it you kinda have to go big to get the most bang for your buck. Behringer makes some decent mixers on the lower end of the price spectrum, the XR18 is a good place to start for a versatile mixer that doesn't take up much room and is controlled via an app on your computer or phone.
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