Dude you forgot the part where you explain how to set up the virtual cable thing..... luckily I was able to find another guy who could explain that, but now there's no "VoiceMeeter Aux Output" in my recording devices.
Will this work if I want to be on a Discord group call and have my voice heard by everyone, but my game audio and music is ONLY heard by the people in the group call who are also watching my stream?
i am so confused. i cant figure out how to route my obs sound to banana. in the drop down list for audio monitoring, it only shows my audio devices and voicemeeter aux input (VB-audio viocemeeter AUX VAIO) or voicemeeter input(VB-audio Voicemeeter VAIO) i dont have a cable option. and then if i select either of those viocemeeter options in obs when i go back to banana i go to the drop down list to add obs as a second audio device it only has my normal audio devices listed. no cable option no voicemeeter aux input or just my normal mic and that i already have added and i cant add it twice. what am i doing wrong?
I found a great example of how to build this up which is very similar to how I did it. This video is by Mike Russell and can be found here. th-cam.com/video/ko9hRYx1lF4/w-d-xo.html Basically use any EQ that you have and then create a bandpass filter to allow sounds from 300hz to 6000hz through it. There is no magic number so play around with what frequencies you pass through to get the sound that you enjoy! :D I will be working on a video that goes through how to build a bunch of vocal effects soon :)
Hey man, I'm trying to get specific desktop windows to display sound over discord (Such as Spotify), OBS is picking up the audio from all sources, is there a way to individualize audio sources and only have one or two go into discord?
Yes there is, there are two ways to do this, I'll show you the Voicemeeter way first, then I'll show you the "easier" way with an OBS plugin. You'll need the "Audio Cables" that come with VM and you might need to get Audio cable A and B from Voicemeeter's (VM) website, but start with the free ones first. To do this, go into your windows sound control panel and you should be able to change the "Listen/Output" device to something else. Example: Spotify I send to VAIO 3 on my VM Potato software. if you have banana, you could send it to VM AUX. Then VM will only play spotify on that audio channel. Then inside OBS, add a audio source and select whatever VM channel you selected on spotify, boom sound only goes to that source now. Using OBS Win-Capture-Audio Plug In obsproject.com/forum/resources/win-capture-audio.1338/ install this plugin, then go into obs and add the new "application audio capture" and select Spotify from the application drop down list. Done. Hope these help you out FakeJuice! :D
Hey my man, thank you so much for this video it has really come in handy. A question that I have is regarding what you mention at 8:41 about the peak meter responding in the Comms. section when talking into the mic. When talking into my mic the peak meter doesn't show any activity in Discord, Skype etc although my contacts can hear me. It does however register to my contacts sound when they communicate with me. Are you able to tell me why this may be occurring for instance if Voice Meeter has been updated since you made this video and that is why it is behaving differently?
So, if I'm using Equalizer APO with reaper plug-ins. Have my mic eq'd and compressed etc. Monitor my voice through OBS to see what it sounds like it won't sound that way in discord unless I use this method? I'm using a Rode Podmic with Scarlet solo for my interface.
From what I've read about with EQAPO, You can not ROUTE the audio to different spots. It's more of a program that takes the audio and adds effects to it then straight to your ear. If you want to route your EQAPO Mic audio into discord, the easiest thing I've seen so far is to use a method similar to this. Voicemeeter (VM) allows you to take audio and send it to several spots at once allowing you to send your audio to discord, a stream, a recording, without needed super expensive equipment that could do a similar job. Till some better audio applications come my way VM is the quickest way to set this up.
After a windows update I have tried so many things, all my settings are as they were before, yet I cannot get it to monitor and output which should make the OBS mic (cable output) bar show anything :(
I have exactly the same problem, my audio peripheriques were desactivated in OBS, and even after getting everything back the output in voicemeter isn't moving anymore
@@adrikiller360 I was able to fix it by ensuring you had all the same settings, but make sure you add cable output to an auxillary/mic slot in OBS settings. I didnt have to do this before, but this solved the problem for me. Good luck!
I actually has the same issue as you and Adrian below as well. I'm not sure what windows did in the latest update but all my audio in windows sound panel were reset and all my obs device picks were also reset to just "default". This is the one hard thing when it comes to voicemeeter, windows, and more advanced setups like this, they are bound to break at the slightest inconvenience haha I'm glad though you were able to fix it! Best of luck bud! :D
as I was saying to Winston, I had to reset every pick for my audio inside Windows sound panel and obs as my devices were all reset to default. also make sure that obs "audio monitor device" is set to the correct thing as well as that was also reset on my side.
Great video one of the better I have seen on this matter how to route audio from OBS to discord, with voicemeeter and virtual cables. It's definitely not an easy project. Never really succeed perfectly. Many combinations tried. I am very curious about sending music to discord. Never got this to sound as when I stream to twitch. Last night I tried your settings.. The microphone was detected in discord.. But when routing music to it it starts for a bit then discord says no input detected. I would love to see how you route any music source to discord.. And find out if the sound will be good, stereo. I never succeed. Just crackling music. Just as it was recorded from a microphone. Also I would like to know, and explained the B1, B2 and B3 in VM POTATO, what is what not just say You need to have B2 checked. Anyways great video and good explanation.
Hey Bud! I'll try my best to break down the questions you have here: - Audio routing and especially voicemeter (VM) is A HUGE PAIN IN THE BUTT!!!!! But it's also one of the best programs out there it's just very finicky, I've broken my audio like 50+ times trying to figure things out to the point I am now. It takes time but you can def learn it! :D - For music routing, I don't actually route my audio to discord. So in VM Potato, I have 3 virtual outputs, VAIO, AUX, and VAIO 3. I route my desktop audio to VAIO, all my discord stuff to AUX, and then all of my music to VAIO 3. In this example, I only have music going to VAIO 3 and it's only routed to MY EARS via the A1-A5 selections. So in the column for VAIO 3, B1-B3 is not selected. In OBS I capture my music here from VAIO 3 as to be able to raise or lower the volume later in video editing, but I don't send it to discord. You can send it to discord though if you select B2 (assuming your settings are similar to mine). - Ok for B1-B3 in VM Potato, each of these are different RECORDING devices that windows sees. So B1 in VM Output inside your windows sound control panel. If you select B1 on any thing that is sending sound, you can see VM OUTPUT getting signal as it's volume meter starts moving. B2 is VM Aux Output and B3 is VAIO3 Output. In my example, I send my microphone into VM Aux Output or B2 and then tell discord to use the input device is VM Aux Output. This way my voice ONLY ever goes to this one sound device and I can tell all my applications to listen to that new sound device and it will always be my voice. You can use the other B1 and B3 as input devices but most applications can only use one device at a time and I picked B2 based off some other videos I'd watched about VM Setup haha. I hope this helps you out Bud! :D
Very informative and useful. Quick question... If OBS already uses the raw mic for the filters (I use it myself for the Nvidia Noise Removal, and a bit of EQ/Compressor), and then pipes the processed sound to VoiceMeeter through the VB-Cable, is there actually a need for it to be set as one of the hardware inputs, since it's not output from VM anywhere? Or is that basically just a visual monitor to view active input in VoiceMeeter...?
So from my understanding, OBS does take the raw mic, but all adjustments made via vst filters are only local to OBS. So if you were to select your raw mic outside OBS, it wouldn't have any of the effects on it. I believe windows allows you to use the "raw" mic input in many different programs all at once. which is great for some use cases, but when it comes to this not so much haha. So in this case, I'm routing the local OBS mic output (mic + filters) to VM to become an input to any other device that I want to have all those effects to. So here that same thing windows does where it duplicates the mic output comes to our advantage. So this Effects mic can now go to discord, your game, skype, zoom, where ever else all at the same time. I hope that helped answer your question, Jordon! :)
This was just an awesome video but i have a question! How do you do this but still get sound alerts on the headset? Right now all my sound alerts goes thru my microphone so discord can also hear it but if i turn of output in obs i cant hear it.
I appreciate the compliment and glad it was useful to you bud! :D To answer your question, because you are monitoring OBS anything you have set up to be monitored in your "Advanced Audio Properties" tab will also all go out to your discord calls. Try checking your alerts to see if they are set to any form of monitor or just output. now if you can't hear them without monitoring them, one fix would be to use the new Monitoring filter obsproject.com/forum/resources/audio-monitor.1186/ You can now add a monitor filter to any sound channel and specific the monitor device all separately from the global monitor in obs settings. I hope this helps bud! :D
To make sure I understand correctly, by following the steps outlined in this video, I can use OBS plugins (eg Compressor, Expander, etc) when I stream my video/audio live to my friends in Discord?
That’s correct! When I do anything in discord or even in games that use VoIP OBS is processing all my audio and then routed to those apps using this method. So you could set up voice changing filters to troll, process your mic to make it sound like you want it to, or whatever you can think of 😊
Does this method allow EQ and compression made in OBS to be heard when using Discord. Also will I need some sort of board or deck to activate this filters when using Discord?
Yes it does Chris, This is actually how I do my discord audio. I pass the exact same audio you hear in these videos and in streams straight through to discord for my friends to hear the exact same thing.
@@PlentyAZach Quick question about this. Does this method not mean that anyone you're talking to in discord would be able to hear your stream alerts, or is there a way to hear your alerts sounds without running them through the OBS monitor?
So somehow I have everything working even discord sounds and youtube but I have a ghost "echo" (its on my end, not a trailing off but a repeat) into my headphones... any idea what could be causing this? none of the "A"s are selected except under desktop and comms and unselecting either and both does not fix the issue. Thank you so much for this video you're a legend.
So it sounds like you are getting feedback from OBS from your comments, here's a few things to look at: - Check to make sure you have OBS monitoring the correct audio device, make sure it's the one you have selected to output the obs sound to your voicemeter. - in OBS advanced audio properties try the different monitoring options. maybe monitor and output doesn't echo or maybe just monitor doesn't echo - Check your windows audio settings to make sure you don't have "listen to this device" selected in the sound properties as that will monitor the audio - Check to make sure your windows audio settings haven't changed the default sound devices to other things (will happen every time you hook up a new audio device) I hate it lol try those to see if anything there is messed up! hopefully we can get it fixed up :D
I believe I am doing something incorrectly. I have followed all the steps through the video twice, and I am still having my audio be picked up even when I am not running OBS.
You don't even need Voicemeeter to do this, just VB Cable. It's a little complicated, maybe I'll make a video of my own explaining how if people want it.
You are right, you can do this without voicemeter. but you hit the nail on the head with the "complicated" comment. even though, voicemeter is also complicated doing this without it is even more so and not a lot of people are going to go through the trouble of it's setup. Also, with VB you can split audio devices into sub mixes which, as far as I know now, I can't do with any other software based solution and still control it with relative ease. You are welcome to make a video to explain how to do it but a word of note for you, it is a bit weird to go into someone else's comments asking for people's interest in a video that you'll make. It's like self promo on someone else's twitch live stream. generally I'd recommend avoiding that. otherwise, bud, have at it and good luck! :)
@@PlentyAZach Couldn't you set the monitoring device in OBS as "virtual cable a", set your mic advanced properties in OBS to "monitor and output", and then set your discord input to be "virtual cable a"? Whats the reason this wouldn't work?
Having the A1 under the Desktop column on makes me hear myself too, how do I stop that? Also, do I have to have Voicemeeter on to be able to hear anything on my PC now?
I'm so glad to see your responding to new comments so i'd like to ask for some help. It appears I don't have voice meeter banana or potato. I only have and A1 and A2 output and it is showing 2 hardware inputs on the left hand side. My layout goes as follows. (left to right of screen) 1: hardware input 2: hardware input virtual input A1 A2 hardware out Along with that, when I go to my audio control panel settings, I am only seeing a single voice meeter setting for each. I activate it and it works. but for some reason, the second I close out of obs everything shuts off. It connects to my discord, everything runs okay. But it all goes downhill once obs has been closed. Any help is appreciated, great video!! i tried this in the past and wasnt able to do it but i got a little further ahead with this video.
my voice sounds super bad when i talk but only when it goes through voicemeter. Why??? i turned the audio quility up in sound but i still have some random static like ticks i dont know what to call them. why?
If you are wanting to do that in a separate audio channel than your normal desktop audio then yes. You'd have to setup the Voicemeeter Aux channel to capture the discord audio and then set obs to use the audio from the "AUX" channel :)
between OBS and voicemeter it can get really finicky! I had some issues at the start with OBS not monitoring out to the right channel. There is an OBS plugin called Audio Monitor and that lets you add a filter to specific audio sources to monitor them out to different audio devices. I'd recommend looking into that and seeing if that could help!
I've been at this for almost a day now but everytime I try to use my microphone setup through Potato on Discord it comes out distorted and crackling. Any idea how to fix that?
First make sure every audio device I windows is set to the same sample rate either all on 44.1KHz or 48kHz. Then you can raise your audio device buffer I think default is 512 you could slowly raise that up on the WDM, KS, ASIO, And the other one that I can’t remember. If none of that is working, you may have to dive deeper into the trouble shooting by adjusting the driver settings. I’d have to really look into that as I don’t have a lot of experience in there yet.
Yeah like Zach said, this is usually a bitrate mismatch between audio devices, but sometimes the problem is that your computer just doesn't run the driver you're using very well. You might have to switch to MME from WDM (or the other way round) but just make sure EVERYTHING matches. If you right click your speaker icon in your Windows taskbar and click Sounds, that's a shortcut to open the legacy Windows audio menu, click the Playback tab, go down the list double clicking everything and then in the Advanced tab change your bitrate to "16 bit, 41100 Hz" alllll the way down the list, then do the same for the Record tab (next to the Playback tab). Then restart your computer, see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, then your sample rate is too high, which you can change in Voicemeeter, sometimes 512 is too low for your computer so you need to set it up to 1024. You'll notice a slight audio delay the higher you go but if you're getting really bad crackling that could be it. If none of that works, try this: Open Notepad, paste the following code in there, and save it as "audio fix.bat" and then run it as administrator. @echo off if not "%1"=="am_admin" (powershell start -verb runas '%0' am_admin & exit /b) net stop audiosrv pause>nulnulnulnul
@@chrispysaid this solved my static problem! You're a fucking legend bro. Only problem is I have a ghost "echo" (its on my end, not a trailing off but a repeat) into my headphones... any idea what could be causing this? none of the "A"s are selected except under desktop and comms and unselecting either and both does not fix the issue.
Without seeing how everything is set up here's a few things to check on just to be sure. - Make sure you are monitoring the correct audio source in OBS. This also resets itself for no reason from time to time so just double check there. - Can you see the audio meter moving in Voicemeeter? if it's moving then at least VM is hearing what's coming from OBS, from there make sure you have B2 selected on that. - make sure windows sound control panel has Voicemeeter Aux Output set to default under the recording tab - then make sure discord is set to grab default from there or force it to VM Aux output. That should make it all work but VM and audio routing is a very tricky beast!
Go to Setting > System > Sound > More Sound Settings in this new tab go to recording and select CABLE output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable) and click on properties then go to advanced and change your default format to 2 channel, 24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality) and click apply do the same thing to VoiceMeeter AUX output (VoiceMeeter Aux Output) and VoiceMeeter output (VoiceMeeter Output). This should fix the issue.
If the fix that Flynn suggested doesn't work, one make sure every device on your system are all using the same Hz either 44100Hz or 48000Hz but they all have to match. from there you can adjust your buffer size in voicemeter if issues still occur. in Voicemeter go to Menu > System Settings then on the right side of the new menu you should see "Buffering MME, WDM, KS,etc." make the buffer larger to help reduce system lag. if you have issues at 256 buffer size try 512, so on and so forth. if that still doesn't work you can try running it in Admin mode :) hope one of these helps!
You might be able to go into the windows sound settings menu and disable "allow applications exclusive control". Sometimes when certain applications start up it'll change your default audio settings and you'll have to keep resetting it. I had to disable that check box on every single sound device in the "sound" and "recording" tab. Try that and see if that helps!
Make sure that on the microphone input side that you don’t have A1-A5 turned green. If any of those inputs have a green light it means you can hear what the microphone is picking up.
this is so hard :/ i keep breaking my audio... your steps seem out of place for someone trying to set this up for the first time so i tried to make my own step by step guide out of your steps but breaking my audio stresses me out so much i cant even refer back to your video with the audio is broken because it says i need to restart my computer.. everytime i give this another shot i end up breaking my audio and then spend 15min fixing it and then i give up and just put it off because im tired of restarting my computer 20 times trying to figure this out
okk... i got it i think. here's the steps i made. 1:download voice meter banana 2:obs-settings-audio-advanced- monitor device (voicemeeter aux input) 3:voicemeter-hardware out-set listening device 4:voicememter-hardware input- (wmd:microphone usb condenser microphone ) 5: obs- microphone- advanced properties- audio monitoring- set to (monitor and output) 6: voicemeter-obs audio- (B2) 7: desktop settings-sound-sound control panel- voicemeter aux input- (default communication device) 7.1: voicemeter input- (set default) 7.2: recording- voicemeter aux output- (set default) 8: discord- voice & video- input device- (voicemeeter aux output) 8.1: output device- (voicemeeter aux input) 9: in game microphones- (voicemeeter aux output)
I'm sorry that this was a frustrating experience for you. VoiceMeeter (VM) is already a very difficult program to use and the reason I didn't go step by step with how to get VocieMeeter working is that this guide is more intended for those with intermediate to advanced skill in audio routing in VM. VM has so many complexities that It's hard to cover all of them in one video without making it it's own dedicated video which is why I tried to refer to another video to get VM working first then my guide is an extension and a showcase of what more you can do with VM. From your steps I don't see anything wrong with this setup and if it works for you that awesome! thankfully, there are several ways to achieve this same result, this is just showing one of them. Also, as I know it's hard to watch tutorials when your audio is broken, I tend to watch these videos on a phone, tablet, other computer, so that way when I inevitably screw up my audio, I can keep watching the video on the other device to keep the sound going. Just a tip as I've also spent many a frustrated days and nights messing up my audio and learning as I went. I wish you the best bud and I'm glad you persevered through it all! :D
Thanks for the video :) Can I ask, is this setup only for when you're communicating with people via voice and not via video? When I use video chat, the latency on the audio from the OBS monitor is so significant for the people I'm talking to that it sort of makes the setup unviable. Is there a way to improve that latency that I'm missing?
Nairda, I would recommend using that same OBS that is sending sound to your calls to also send video to your calls as well. I'd do this using either NDI, or virtual camera. You could then add a render delay filter to your video to help better sync up the audio and video so that it's not super off. In my set up I've not noticed that much delay in audio/video but I know every set up is different. couple notes though on trying to improve latency: 1: make sure that no filters are using a "pre-open" option. this will create a delay of however many miliseconds are selected in your audio. so if 10ms pre-open, the audio is at least 10ms behind it's original processing point. 2: some computers in general don't process the audio fast enough, you could try running OBS and VoiceMeeter in admin to bring up the processing level but that's not a guarantee it'll work. 3: It may be your VM that is causing that much delay, you could try to lower the buffers in your settings for VM to improve the delay. my buffering for MME is 480, WDM is 128, KS is 128, ASIO is 128. this will not work on all computer and could cause all your audio to sound robotic and staticy. if that happens you'll have to raise the buffer till it stops. (it's computer dependent so I can't give solid numbers on what to try unfortunately) I hope that helps you out Bud!
10 Minutes into this video, still no explanation where this virtual cable comes from, that renders the rest of this hopping between programs, totally useless
You are right and this is 100% on me for forgetting that the virtual cable doesn't come standard on install with VM. The virtual cable can be obtained from the same voice meter website on the first tab to the left. I have linked it here for you. vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm install "VB-CABLE Virtual Audio Device" which is the top most link and then you'll have access to the same cable that I use here. Thank you for reminding me to look over what's in the standard installs so that I can make my videos better.
@@PlentyAZach Thanks for the fast reply! Just another question. Why would you put the discord output on the same channel as the mic? Doesn't that mean i have to listen to myself?
So the Aux Output and Aux Input are connected to the same channel but separated on how the sound is routed. When you select the Aux Output as the "input" to discord, That's saying take the Voice meter "output" and send that to the Discord "input". Thankfully we can send it back to the Aux "input" as we can select what's sent to our headphones. In Voicemeter you'll need to deselect the hardware outputs (A1-A3 or A5 depending on what voicemeter you have) and make sure you have B2 selected on that obs audio. This will send your voice to discord without letting you hear it. Under the Aux section (B2) you'd select whatever outputs you want (A1-A5) and have nothing selected on the B1-B3. Your voice goes to discord, you can hear your friends from discord and there is no cross talk or feedback with that setup.
When I had it working this was solved by ensuring that you were monitoring and outputting in OBS under your mics advanced audio properties. No however I cannot get it to output so not sure if you are having the issue I am.
Hey, everything was working well for months but for some reason today it doesn't wanna work no matter what. I changed my cable that I connect to the laptop but now even audio doesn't work for it so I have to go back to using the default speakers instead of the virtual cable. Do you know what seems to be the problem?
so often times the window default sound settings will reset themselves every time a new "sound device" is added to the PC. In this case you added/changed a cable and it's possible you are no longer using the normal voicemeter sound devices. try checking those defaults and seeing if they changed.
@@PlentyAZach I set it to the normal voicemeeter aux input/output settings like shown at 6:42 yet it still doesn't work. OBS doesn't pick up sound when using the vb cables and no audio can be heard unless I switch back to default speakers. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the vb cable and voicemeeter but that didn't work as well.
The setup is actually the same across Banana and Potato but there will be less "Hardware Inputs". Voicemeter comes with a lot of unnecessary confusion which doesn't help either. I see in your other comment it looks like your missing the "Cable Output" that I select in the second input, you'll have to make sure that you have one of the cables downloaded from vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm Looking back I realize I don't talk about that cable in enough detail. In the near future I'll work on another video showing an easier way to get better sound out to VoIP apps.
@@PlentyAZach I ended up just doing this on potato, but had an issue where my mic was sounding really weird and robotic. Do you think I messed up my OBS filters or did I do something else wrong?
@@williamhansen6350 make sure all devices in your sound control panel are ALL at either 44.1kHz or all at 48kHz. if you have a difference there it'll screw up some audio. you could also change the buffers to a higher number which generally helps cut down on issues related to crackling or robotic sounds. these buffers are in system settings in VM. Your OBS settings are fine, VM tends to be a very finicky program at best for some reason. It's going to take some trail and error to figure out the best settings for your pc and vm setup.
16:25 I can confirm for streamdeck users, you can use a streamdeck to trigger filters on mic or any souce for that matter! 😉
Thank you so much Brother for letting me know that! :D when I said that I was like "I hope Norton watches this to answer that question" 😂 Love ya Bud!
Dude you forgot the part where you explain how to set up the virtual cable thing..... luckily I was able to find another guy who could explain that, but now there's no "VoiceMeeter Aux Output" in my recording devices.
"Banana or potato will work" -Zach, 2021
haha thanks for bringing that quote totally out of context to the video 😂
is any of the 3rd party software you use to rout
the OBS audio to discord and skype free without ads?
Will this work if I want to be on a Discord group call and have my voice heard by everyone, but my game audio and music is ONLY heard by the people in the group call who are also watching my stream?
I'm trying to watch this video and follow along but when I change a1 to my headphones TH-cam crashes
i am so confused. i cant figure out how to route my obs sound to banana. in the drop down list for audio monitoring, it only shows my audio devices and voicemeeter aux input (VB-audio viocemeeter AUX VAIO) or voicemeeter input(VB-audio Voicemeeter VAIO) i dont have a cable option. and then if i select either of those viocemeeter options in obs when i go back to banana i go to the drop down list to add obs as a second audio device it only has my normal audio devices listed. no cable option no voicemeeter aux input or just my normal mic and that i already have added and i cant add it twice. what am i doing wrong?
I'm super curious on how you did the old timer radio effect, it would be amazing to know!
I found a great example of how to build this up which is very similar to how I did it. This video is by Mike Russell and can be found here. th-cam.com/video/ko9hRYx1lF4/w-d-xo.html
Basically use any EQ that you have and then create a bandpass filter to allow sounds from 300hz to 6000hz through it. There is no magic number so play around with what frequencies you pass through to get the sound that you enjoy! :D I will be working on a video that goes through how to build a bunch of vocal effects soon :)
Upgrade your Mic Bro!!!
¿What's the meaning of MME, WDM and KS?
Hey man, I'm trying to get specific desktop windows to display sound over discord (Such as Spotify), OBS is picking up the audio from all sources, is there a way to individualize audio sources and only have one or two go into discord?
Yes there is, there are two ways to do this, I'll show you the Voicemeeter way first, then I'll show you the "easier" way with an OBS plugin.
You'll need the "Audio Cables" that come with VM and you might need to get Audio cable A and B from Voicemeeter's (VM) website, but start with the free ones first.
To do this, go into your windows sound control panel and you should be able to change the "Listen/Output" device to something else. Example: Spotify I send to VAIO 3 on my VM Potato software. if you have banana, you could send it to VM AUX. Then VM will only play spotify on that audio channel. Then inside OBS, add a audio source and select whatever VM channel you selected on spotify, boom sound only goes to that source now.
Using OBS Win-Capture-Audio Plug In obsproject.com/forum/resources/win-capture-audio.1338/
install this plugin, then go into obs and add the new "application audio capture" and select Spotify from the application drop down list. Done.
Hope these help you out FakeJuice! :D
Hey my man, thank you so much for this video it has really come in handy. A question that I have is regarding what you mention at 8:41 about the peak meter responding in the Comms. section when talking into the mic. When talking into my mic the peak meter doesn't show any activity in Discord, Skype etc although my contacts can hear me. It does however register to my contacts sound when they communicate with me. Are you able to tell me why this may be occurring for instance if Voice Meeter has been updated since you made this video and that is why it is behaving differently?
So, if I'm using Equalizer APO with reaper plug-ins. Have my mic eq'd and compressed etc. Monitor my voice through OBS to see what it sounds like it won't sound that way in discord unless I use this method? I'm using a Rode Podmic with Scarlet solo for my interface.
From what I've read about with EQAPO, You can not ROUTE the audio to different spots. It's more of a program that takes the audio and adds effects to it then straight to your ear. If you want to route your EQAPO Mic audio into discord, the easiest thing I've seen so far is to use a method similar to this.
Voicemeeter (VM) allows you to take audio and send it to several spots at once allowing you to send your audio to discord, a stream, a recording, without needed super expensive equipment that could do a similar job. Till some better audio applications come my way VM is the quickest way to set this up.
After a windows update I have tried so many things, all my settings are as they were before, yet I cannot get it to monitor and output which should make the OBS mic (cable output) bar show anything :(
It was perfect before and now nothing :((((((
I have exactly the same problem, my audio peripheriques were desactivated in OBS, and even after getting everything back the output in voicemeter isn't moving anymore
@@adrikiller360 I was able to fix it by ensuring you had all the same settings, but make sure you add cable output to an auxillary/mic slot in OBS settings. I didnt have to do this before, but this solved the problem for me. Good luck!
I actually has the same issue as you and Adrian below as well. I'm not sure what windows did in the latest update but all my audio in windows sound panel were reset and all my obs device picks were also reset to just "default". This is the one hard thing when it comes to voicemeeter, windows, and more advanced setups like this, they are bound to break at the slightest inconvenience haha I'm glad though you were able to fix it! Best of luck bud! :D
as I was saying to Winston, I had to reset every pick for my audio inside Windows sound panel and obs as my devices were all reset to default. also make sure that obs "audio monitor device" is set to the correct thing as well as that was also reset on my side.
Great video one of the better I have seen on this matter how to route audio from OBS to discord, with voicemeeter and virtual cables. It's definitely not an easy project. Never really succeed perfectly. Many combinations tried. I am very curious about sending music to discord. Never got this to sound as when I stream to twitch. Last night I tried your settings.. The microphone was detected in discord.. But when routing music to it it starts for a bit then discord says no input detected. I would love to see how you route any music source to discord.. And find out if the sound will be good, stereo. I never succeed. Just crackling music. Just as it was recorded from a microphone. Also I would like to know, and explained the B1, B2 and B3 in VM POTATO, what is what not just say You need to have B2 checked. Anyways great video and good explanation.
Hey Bud! I'll try my best to break down the questions you have here:
- Audio routing and especially voicemeter (VM) is A HUGE PAIN IN THE BUTT!!!!! But it's also one of the best programs out there it's just very finicky, I've broken my audio like 50+ times trying to figure things out to the point I am now. It takes time but you can def learn it! :D
- For music routing, I don't actually route my audio to discord. So in VM Potato, I have 3 virtual outputs, VAIO, AUX, and VAIO 3. I route my desktop audio to VAIO, all my discord stuff to AUX, and then all of my music to VAIO 3. In this example, I only have music going to VAIO 3 and it's only routed to MY EARS via the A1-A5 selections. So in the column for VAIO 3, B1-B3 is not selected. In OBS I capture my music here from VAIO 3 as to be able to raise or lower the volume later in video editing, but I don't send it to discord. You can send it to discord though if you select B2 (assuming your settings are similar to mine).
- Ok for B1-B3 in VM Potato, each of these are different RECORDING devices that windows sees. So B1 in VM Output inside your windows sound control panel. If you select B1 on any thing that is sending sound, you can see VM OUTPUT getting signal as it's volume meter starts moving. B2 is VM Aux Output and B3 is VAIO3 Output. In my example, I send my microphone into VM Aux Output or B2 and then tell discord to use the input device is VM Aux Output. This way my voice ONLY ever goes to this one sound device and I can tell all my applications to listen to that new sound device and it will always be my voice. You can use the other B1 and B3 as input devices but most applications can only use one device at a time and I picked B2 based off some other videos I'd watched about VM Setup haha.
I hope this helps you out Bud! :D
Very informative and useful. Quick question... If OBS already uses the raw mic for the filters (I use it myself for the Nvidia Noise Removal, and a bit of EQ/Compressor), and then pipes the processed sound to VoiceMeeter through the VB-Cable, is there actually a need for it to be set as one of the hardware inputs, since it's not output from VM anywhere? Or is that basically just a visual monitor to view active input in VoiceMeeter...?
So from my understanding, OBS does take the raw mic, but all adjustments made via vst filters are only local to OBS. So if you were to select your raw mic outside OBS, it wouldn't have any of the effects on it. I believe windows allows you to use the "raw" mic input in many different programs all at once. which is great for some use cases, but when it comes to this not so much haha. So in this case, I'm routing the local OBS mic output (mic + filters) to VM to become an input to any other device that I want to have all those effects to. So here that same thing windows does where it duplicates the mic output comes to our advantage. So this Effects mic can now go to discord, your game, skype, zoom, where ever else all at the same time.
I hope that helped answer your question, Jordon! :)
This was just an awesome video but i have a question! How do you do this but still get sound alerts on the headset? Right now all my sound alerts goes thru my microphone so discord can also hear it but if i turn of output in obs i cant hear it.
I appreciate the compliment and glad it was useful to you bud! :D
To answer your question, because you are monitoring OBS anything you have set up to be monitored in your "Advanced Audio Properties" tab will also all go out to your discord calls. Try checking your alerts to see if they are set to any form of monitor or just output. now if you can't hear them without monitoring them, one fix would be to use the new Monitoring filter obsproject.com/forum/resources/audio-monitor.1186/ You can now add a monitor filter to any sound channel and specific the monitor device all separately from the global monitor in obs settings. I hope this helps bud! :D
Thanks for the tutorial but gosh how I hate voicemeter c':
Haha I feel that! I love the program but it’s a PAIN to get setup and running correctly. Sadly I have yet to find a replacement for this!
To make sure I understand correctly, by following the steps outlined in this video, I can use OBS plugins (eg Compressor, Expander, etc) when I stream my video/audio live to my friends in Discord?
That’s correct! When I do anything in discord or even in games that use VoIP OBS is processing all my audio and then routed to those apps using this method. So you could set up voice changing filters to troll, process your mic to make it sound like you want it to, or whatever you can think of 😊
@@PlentyAZach That's awesome! This video is *exactly* what I was looking for. Thanks!
Older video, but still extremely useful. Helped me setting up my audio stuff on multiple different occasions.
Does this method allow EQ and compression made in OBS to be heard when using Discord. Also will I need some sort of board or deck to activate this filters when using Discord?
Yes it does Chris, This is actually how I do my discord audio. I pass the exact same audio you hear in these videos and in streams straight through to discord for my friends to hear the exact same thing.
@@PlentyAZach Quick question about this. Does this method not mean that anyone you're talking to in discord would be able to hear your stream alerts, or is there a way to hear your alerts sounds without running them through the OBS monitor?
So somehow I have everything working even discord sounds and youtube but I have a ghost "echo" (its on my end, not a trailing off but a repeat) into my headphones... any idea what could be causing this? none of the "A"s are selected except under desktop and comms and unselecting either and both does not fix the issue. Thank you so much for this video you're a legend.
Happens when Voicemeeter is closed. Does not happen when OBS is closed, if that helps.
It was the “listen to device” setting in the sound control panel
So it sounds like you are getting feedback from OBS from your comments, here's a few things to look at:
- Check to make sure you have OBS monitoring the correct audio device, make sure it's the one you have selected to output the obs sound to your voicemeter.
- in OBS advanced audio properties try the different monitoring options. maybe monitor and output doesn't echo or maybe just monitor doesn't echo
- Check your windows audio settings to make sure you don't have "listen to this device" selected in the sound properties as that will monitor the audio
- Check to make sure your windows audio settings haven't changed the default sound devices to other things (will happen every time you hook up a new audio device) I hate it lol
try those to see if anything there is messed up! hopefully we can get it fixed up :D
Haha that’s gotten me several times I’m glad that fixed it! 😊
I believe I am doing something incorrectly. I have followed all the steps through the video twice, and I am still having my audio be picked up even when I am not running OBS.
You don't even need Voicemeeter to do this, just VB Cable. It's a little complicated, maybe I'll make a video of my own explaining how if people want it.
Trust me we do lol
You are right, you can do this without voicemeter. but you hit the nail on the head with the "complicated" comment. even though, voicemeter is also complicated doing this without it is even more so and not a lot of people are going to go through the trouble of it's setup. Also, with VB you can split audio devices into sub mixes which, as far as I know now, I can't do with any other software based solution and still control it with relative ease. You are welcome to make a video to explain how to do it but a word of note for you, it is a bit weird to go into someone else's comments asking for people's interest in a video that you'll make. It's like self promo on someone else's twitch live stream. generally I'd recommend avoiding that. otherwise, bud, have at it and good luck! :)
@@PlentyAZach Couldn't you set the monitoring device in OBS as "virtual cable a", set your mic advanced properties in OBS to "monitor and output", and then set your discord input to be "virtual cable a"? Whats the reason this wouldn't work?
with this setup will your friends hear your desktop audio through the discord input together with the microphone?
Having the A1 under the Desktop column on makes me hear myself too, how do I stop that? Also, do I have to have Voicemeeter on to be able to hear anything on my PC now?
I'm so glad to see your responding to new comments so i'd like to ask for some help. It appears I don't have voice meeter banana or potato. I only have and A1 and A2 output and it is showing 2 hardware inputs on the left hand side. My layout goes as follows. (left to right of screen)
1: hardware input 2: hardware input virtual input A1 A2 hardware out
Along with that, when I go to my audio control panel settings, I am only seeing a single voice meeter setting for each. I activate it and it works. but for some reason, the second I close out of obs everything shuts off. It connects to my discord, everything runs okay. But it all goes downhill once obs has been closed.
Any help is appreciated, great video!! i tried this in the past and wasnt able to do it but i got a little further ahead with this video.
on voicemeeter on the 2nd input you're meant to select, a voice meeter output doesn't show up. it shows up on OBS but not voicemeeter
I think you have to install the virtual cable seperatly on the homepage of voicemeeter
my voice sounds super bad when i talk but only when it goes through voicemeter. Why??? i turned the audio quility up in sound but i still have some random static like ticks i dont know what to call them. why?
is there any way to do the opposite, like route audio from discord to obs
If you are wanting to do that in a separate audio channel than your normal desktop audio then yes. You'd have to setup the Voicemeeter Aux channel to capture the discord audio and then set obs to use the audio from the "AUX" channel :)
@@PlentyAZach Thanks
my cable input isn't showing up in obs monitoring device?
did not work for me. Most likely obs is the problem
between OBS and voicemeter it can get really finicky! I had some issues at the start with OBS not monitoring out to the right channel. There is an OBS plugin called Audio Monitor and that lets you add a filter to specific audio sources to monitor them out to different audio devices. I'd recommend looking into that and seeing if that could help!
@@PlentyAZachThanks. Ill check it out
I've been at this for almost a day now but everytime I try to use my microphone setup through Potato on Discord it comes out distorted and crackling. Any idea how to fix that?
First make sure every audio device I windows is set to the same sample rate either all on 44.1KHz or 48kHz. Then you can raise your audio device buffer I think default is 512 you could slowly raise that up on the WDM, KS, ASIO, And the other one that I can’t remember. If none of that is working, you may have to dive deeper into the trouble shooting by adjusting the driver settings. I’d have to really look into that as I don’t have a lot of experience in there yet.
Yeah like Zach said, this is usually a bitrate mismatch between audio devices, but sometimes the problem is that your computer just doesn't run the driver you're using very well. You might have to switch to MME from WDM (or the other way round) but just make sure EVERYTHING matches. If you right click your speaker icon in your Windows taskbar and click Sounds, that's a shortcut to open the legacy Windows audio menu, click the Playback tab, go down the list double clicking everything and then in the Advanced tab change your bitrate to "16 bit, 41100 Hz" alllll the way down the list, then do the same for the Record tab (next to the Playback tab). Then restart your computer, see if that fixes it.
If it doesn't, then your sample rate is too high, which you can change in Voicemeeter, sometimes 512 is too low for your computer so you need to set it up to 1024. You'll notice a slight audio delay the higher you go but if you're getting really bad crackling that could be it.
If none of that works, try this: Open Notepad, paste the following code in there, and save it as "audio fix.bat" and then run it as administrator.
@echo off
if not "%1"=="am_admin" (powershell start -verb runas '%0' am_admin & exit /b)
net stop audiosrv
pause>nulnulnulnul
@@chrispysaid Thank you so much this is awesome advice!!
@@PlentyAZach I'll try that out and hopefully it'll fix the issue!
@@chrispysaid this solved my static problem! You're a fucking legend bro. Only problem is I have a ghost "echo" (its on my end, not a trailing off but a repeat) into my headphones... any idea what could be causing this? none of the "A"s are selected except under desktop and comms and unselecting either and both does not fix the issue.
Everything works well until the discord part. For some reason, it doesnt pick up the audio but I have the correct inputs and outputs.
Without seeing how everything is set up here's a few things to check on just to be sure.
- Make sure you are monitoring the correct audio source in OBS. This also resets itself for no reason from time to time so just double check there.
- Can you see the audio meter moving in Voicemeeter? if it's moving then at least VM is hearing what's coming from OBS, from there make sure you have B2 selected on that.
- make sure windows sound control panel has Voicemeeter Aux Output set to default under the recording tab
- then make sure discord is set to grab default from there or force it to VM Aux output.
That should make it all work but VM and audio routing is a very tricky beast!
when I send the audio to Discord it's terribly static and choppy, do you know what the cause might be?
th-cam.com/video/71HrZfR_Fro/w-d-xo.html will help you 100%
Go to Setting > System > Sound > More Sound Settings in this new tab go to recording and select CABLE output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable) and click on properties then go to advanced and change your default format to 2 channel, 24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality) and click apply do the same thing to VoiceMeeter AUX output (VoiceMeeter Aux Output) and VoiceMeeter output (VoiceMeeter Output). This should fix the issue.
Thank you Flynn for the help on this!
If the fix that Flynn suggested doesn't work, one make sure every device on your system are all using the same Hz either 44100Hz or 48000Hz but they all have to match. from there you can adjust your buffer size in voicemeter if issues still occur. in Voicemeter go to Menu > System Settings then on the right side of the new menu you should see "Buffering MME, WDM, KS,etc." make the buffer larger to help reduce system lag. if you have issues at 256 buffer size try 512, so on and so forth. if that still doesn't work you can try running it in Admin mode :) hope one of these helps!
@@Flynn.... thanks for the suggestions! I'll try them out and get back to you.
For some reason my cable keeps defaulting to my browser and will not connect to my obs, any fix?
You might be able to go into the windows sound settings menu and disable "allow applications exclusive control". Sometimes when certain applications start up it'll change your default audio settings and you'll have to keep resetting it. I had to disable that check box on every single sound device in the "sound" and "recording" tab. Try that and see if that helps!
how do i make it so i dont make an (eco hear my self twise)
Make sure that on the microphone input side that you don’t have A1-A5 turned green. If any of those inputs have a green light it means you can hear what the microphone is picking up.
this is so hard :/ i keep breaking my audio... your steps seem out of place for someone trying to set this up for the first time so i tried to make my own step by step guide out of your steps but breaking my audio stresses me out so much i cant even refer back to your video with the audio is broken because it says i need to restart my computer.. everytime i give this another shot i end up breaking my audio and then spend 15min fixing it and then i give up and just put it off because im tired of restarting my computer 20 times trying to figure this out
okk... i got it i think. here's the steps i made.
1:download voice meter banana
2:obs-settings-audio-advanced- monitor device (voicemeeter aux input)
3:voicemeter-hardware out-set listening device
4:voicememter-hardware input- (wmd:microphone usb condenser microphone )
5: obs- microphone- advanced properties- audio monitoring- set to (monitor and output)
6: voicemeter-obs audio- (B2)
7: desktop settings-sound-sound control panel- voicemeter aux input- (default communication device)
7.1: voicemeter input- (set default)
7.2: recording- voicemeter aux output- (set default)
8: discord- voice & video- input device- (voicemeeter aux output)
8.1: output device- (voicemeeter aux input)
9: in game microphones- (voicemeeter aux output)
I'm sorry that this was a frustrating experience for you. VoiceMeeter (VM) is already a very difficult program to use and the reason I didn't go step by step with how to get VocieMeeter working is that this guide is more intended for those with intermediate to advanced skill in audio routing in VM. VM has so many complexities that It's hard to cover all of them in one video without making it it's own dedicated video which is why I tried to refer to another video to get VM working first then my guide is an extension and a showcase of what more you can do with VM.
From your steps I don't see anything wrong with this setup and if it works for you that awesome! thankfully, there are several ways to achieve this same result, this is just showing one of them. Also, as I know it's hard to watch tutorials when your audio is broken, I tend to watch these videos on a phone, tablet, other computer, so that way when I inevitably screw up my audio, I can keep watching the video on the other device to keep the sound going. Just a tip as I've also spent many a frustrated days and nights messing up my audio and learning as I went.
I wish you the best bud and I'm glad you persevered through it all! :D
Thanks for the video :) Can I ask, is this setup only for when you're communicating with people via voice and not via video? When I use video chat, the latency on the audio from the OBS monitor is so significant for the people I'm talking to that it sort of makes the setup unviable. Is there a way to improve that latency that I'm missing?
Nairda, I would recommend using that same OBS that is sending sound to your calls to also send video to your calls as well. I'd do this using either NDI, or virtual camera. You could then add a render delay filter to your video to help better sync up the audio and video so that it's not super off. In my set up I've not noticed that much delay in audio/video but I know every set up is different. couple notes though on trying to improve latency:
1: make sure that no filters are using a "pre-open" option. this will create a delay of however many miliseconds are selected in your audio. so if 10ms pre-open, the audio is at least 10ms behind it's original processing point.
2: some computers in general don't process the audio fast enough, you could try running OBS and VoiceMeeter in admin to bring up the processing level but that's not a guarantee it'll work.
3: It may be your VM that is causing that much delay, you could try to lower the buffers in your settings for VM to improve the delay. my buffering for MME is 480, WDM is 128, KS is 128, ASIO is 128. this will not work on all computer and could cause all your audio to sound robotic and staticy. if that happens you'll have to raise the buffer till it stops. (it's computer dependent so I can't give solid numbers on what to try unfortunately)
I hope that helps you out Bud!
@@PlentyAZach Thank you, sir! I will try these things :D
10 Minutes into this video, still no explanation where this virtual cable comes from, that renders the rest of this hopping between programs, totally useless
You are right and this is 100% on me for forgetting that the virtual cable doesn't come standard on install with VM. The virtual cable can be obtained from the same voice meter website on the first tab to the left. I have linked it here for you. vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm install "VB-CABLE Virtual Audio Device" which is the top most link and then you'll have access to the same cable that I use here.
Thank you for reminding me to look over what's in the standard installs so that I can make my videos better.
@@PlentyAZach Thanks for the fast reply! Just another question. Why would you put the discord output on the same channel as the mic? Doesn't that mean i have to listen to myself?
So the Aux Output and Aux Input are connected to the same channel but separated on how the sound is routed. When you select the Aux Output as the "input" to discord, That's saying take the Voice meter "output" and send that to the Discord "input". Thankfully we can send it back to the Aux "input" as we can select what's sent to our headphones. In Voicemeter you'll need to deselect the hardware outputs (A1-A3 or A5 depending on what voicemeter you have) and make sure you have B2 selected on that obs audio. This will send your voice to discord without letting you hear it. Under the Aux section (B2) you'd select whatever outputs you want (A1-A5) and have nothing selected on the B1-B3. Your voice goes to discord, you can hear your friends from discord and there is no cross talk or feedback with that setup.
When I talk on voicemeter banana cable output has no audio levels. Anyone know how to fix this?
When I had it working this was solved by ensuring that you were monitoring and outputting in OBS under your mics advanced audio properties. No however I cannot get it to output so not sure if you are having the issue I am.
Check and see if adding cable output and your mic to mic/auxillary audio 1 & 2 helps! Fixed it for me.
Hey, everything was working well for months but for some reason today it doesn't wanna work no matter what. I changed my cable that I connect to the laptop but now even audio doesn't work for it so I have to go back to using the default speakers instead of the virtual cable. Do you know what seems to be the problem?
so often times the window default sound settings will reset themselves every time a new "sound device" is added to the PC. In this case you added/changed a cable and it's possible you are no longer using the normal voicemeter sound devices. try checking those defaults and seeing if they changed.
@@PlentyAZach I set it to the normal voicemeeter aux input/output settings like shown at 6:42 yet it still doesn't work. OBS doesn't pick up sound when using the vb cables and no audio can be heard unless I switch back to default speakers.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the vb cable and voicemeeter but that didn't work as well.
I think the problem is the vb cables themselves now though I don't know how to solve them.
Can you do a video on banana please, this is so confusing
Yes ^^^^^!!!!
The setup is actually the same across Banana and Potato but there will be less "Hardware Inputs". Voicemeter comes with a lot of unnecessary confusion which doesn't help either. I see in your other comment it looks like your missing the "Cable Output" that I select in the second input, you'll have to make sure that you have one of the cables downloaded from vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm Looking back I realize I don't talk about that cable in enough detail.
In the near future I'll work on another video showing an easier way to get better sound out to VoIP apps.
@@PlentyAZach thank u !!!
@@PlentyAZach
I ended up just doing this on potato, but had an issue where my mic was sounding really weird and robotic. Do you think I messed up my OBS filters or did I do something else wrong?
@@williamhansen6350 make sure all devices in your sound control panel are ALL at either 44.1kHz or all at 48kHz. if you have a difference there it'll screw up some audio. you could also change the buffers to a higher number which generally helps cut down on issues related to crackling or robotic sounds. these buffers are in system settings in VM. Your OBS settings are fine, VM tends to be a very finicky program at best for some reason. It's going to take some trail and error to figure out the best settings for your pc and vm setup.