Azslow3 thank you for your input! I welcome even corrections on my understanding of this technology.
I would like to state that the diagram I put forward above was put there for the very reason to elicit criticism and a simpler solution.
I have for a week steady been plugging and re-plugging in devices, changing their settings to no avail.
It seemed every time I would try a configuration I would come up against a wall or, find distortion in the signal.
You mentioned Azslow3 that your laptop had an enormous amount of hum in the signal, that is not because of the electronics not being shielded well, that is because the power supply acts as an antenna. The next time you set up your laptop to record and experience the hum try this test. Unplug the power supply and let it run only on battery.
Your noise will be gone. I learned this the hard way out on a gig trying to use my laptop. Unfortunately I could not get rid of the terrible buzz/hum until I got back home and researched the problem on Google.
All non Apple laptops with an external power supply have this inherent problem.
Just wondering if that was what you were experiencing.
As for my problem at hand.
Last night was the first time I was able to finally get my setup to work. I was just about to go to bed at 4AM and I said to myself just one more test... This was successful!
Using various Youtube tutorial videos I overcame much confusion as to whether to try and record the source input or the source output. Whether to use ASIO drivers and on what devices. How to route those drivers within Windows and what virtual software to use to accommodate those drivers so as to be able to pass these signals off to OBS studio so I cold isolate these sources into different audio tracks while still maintaining the highest quality signal.
There are so many switches and toggles along the way. I am by no means saying I understand it (hell no!) but I got it to finally work and the setup is now saved and retrievable, (hopefully) reproducible with other programs and devices.
And for the most part "simple" and not requiring jumping hoops like my rats nest of a diagram I posted above.
For one I was able to shut off the Realtec and Nvidia sound devices completely!
That sure simplified things considerably!
I am also using ASIO for ALL and VoiceMeeter Banana (both apps I plan to leave a nice donation to soon).
I will be spending a few hours tonight remaking my diagram, I need to cement this program of wiring and switches in my head.
I am able to use my XLR Audio Technica microphone and that is one of the pluses that I have not seen others use online in the the various Youtube instructional videos. They are all using USB microphones.
I am also relying only on my Roland Quad capture and there are no other sound cards (other than virtual) that are being used.
Other than, an analog to digital device smaller than the size of a cigarette pack that converts my mic out signal from the mixer to digital so it can enter into the 3/4 input on the back of the Roland quad capture. I bought this device because I wanted to someday maybe utilize those ports on the back of the Roland and it was real cheap on Amazon.
This is the device listed below on top I used to pipe the mic out of the mixer into the 3/4 inputs on the back of the Roland Quad Capture. It has brand name printed on the device it that is not shown or listed in the Amazon description and that name is "Portta"...
SANOXY Analog to Digital Audio Converter Adapterhttps://smile.amazon.com/..._s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I also bought this device listed below which I am not using.
PROZOR Digital to Analog Converter DAC Digital SPDIF Toslink to Analog Stereo Audio L/R Converter Adapter with Optical Cable for PS3 XBox HD DVD PS4 Home Cinema Systems AV Amps Apple TVhttps://smile.amazon.com/..._s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I just love having little doohickey devices like these anyway.
Being external it is far removed from the electronics of the motherboard and its fans and it is powered by USB that I plug into one of my phone charger cubes.
I will post a new diagram once I am done making it.
Since a lot of this stuff is handled internal to Windows I am not sure I will be able to really represent all of the routing parameters in this set up but I will make a listing of how everything is set regardless of if I understand it.
The final test of if this has been working or not has been taking the MP4 file created by OBS studio and dragging it into a test file I made in Premiere and seeing if the stereo vocal track is isolated and has no game music in it and if the separate game music track is clear of any vocal mic input. Also the vocal track and music track needs to be free of any perceptible noise (hiss, pops, hums, clicks distortion etc), this seems to be working now.
Now to try and get this same setup to translate over to Cakewalk. I think it will work and I think I have a hunch as to why it would not work before but I need to test out that theory before I say what it might be.