Comment by platz

I'm not a streamer, but I find OBS is great for other uses.

The main things I use OBS for is:

  - Recording screen or window, while recording desktop audio and mic at the same time.

  - routing master windows audio through a compressor/limiter when listening to videos or streams that have poor leveling (though you need to install a virtual audio output in windows to do this - I found something called CABLE that works.  Then windows outputs to CABLE, OBS reads CABLE into desktop audio source, and then you  monitor that on you speakers/headphones, so you can now add audio filters to desktop audio source.)

  - adjusting gamma/contrast/brightness of webcams (but not during face to face video calls; OBS does introduce lag which limits the usefullness of this)