diff --git a/UI/window-basic-main.cpp b/UI/window-basic-main.cpp
index b7eb69e59..fc0a62d99 100644
--- a/UI/window-basic-main.cpp
+++ b/UI/window-basic-main.cpp
@@ -1505,8 +1505,6 @@ bool OBSBasic::InitBasicConfigDefaults()
 	config_set_default_bool(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "RecUseRescale", false);
 	config_set_default_uint(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "RecTracks", (1 << 0));
 	config_set_default_string(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "RecEncoder", "none");
-	config_set_default_string(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "RecAudioEncoder",
-				  "none");
 	config_set_default_uint(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "FLVTrack", 1);
 
 	config_set_default_bool(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "FFOutputToFile", true);
@@ -1643,6 +1641,8 @@ void OBSBasic::InitBasicConfigDefaults2()
 
 	config_set_default_string(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "AudioEncoder",
 				  aac_default);
+	config_set_default_string(basicConfig, "AdvOut", "RecAudioEncoder",
+				  aac_default);
 
 	if (update_nvenc_presets(basicConfig))
 		config_save_safe(basicConfig, "tmp", nullptr);