Excellent information, cleanly presented. Wonderful work! Also, you're the first video I've found that shows how to change from Mic to Line level in the ATEM Control software.
This was exactly what I needed. I have a line signal and I was afraid to go direct into ATEM due to lag rumours, and my cheap Canon camera only has Mic levels in. Thank you!
Thanks for mentioning the update that corrects the sync issues! I'm about to order the mini pro but I had been 'hearing' issues with the sound sync with direct mic inputs. Now I feel better with the plan to use a boom mic connected to the mini pro.
Thank you sir. I have the traditional Atem Mini and was kinda stuck. After watching this video I'm definitely getting things done. I will share the link to your CZcams channel so you get 1million subs ❤🎉
Dude.....I have been trying for weeks to run my Korg Kross 2 Keyboard workstation and usb microphone through my Atem Mini Pro and could never get my sound mixed properly.In just less than 10 minutes I have 3 variations of presets for varying scenarios.....Thanks man,you are a life saver!
Good stuff. I needed a straight forward video about setting the audio levels, compression and limiter on the mini so when my mate and his companion are live on facebook, and he treaks the gain for a little more omph, I don't have to constantly tweak the audio and can concentrate on the video and monitor the stream.
Awesome man! I'm hoping to pick up one of these soon to improve my online drum lessons. I can have my drum mix go to input 1 and my talkback on input 2 to switch between talking and playing. As well as free up all my usb ports! 😂
Hey Stephen! Thanks for this video. You've been a great resource in my streaming journey. I've learned a ton from you and appreciate it! So here is my current problem. I'm trying to monitor my audio from the headphone jack on my Feelworld F5 monitor and can barely hear anything. I have the monitor volume all the way up and have all of my audio setting as I think they should be and its so quiet still. Do I need to run a headphone amp between the monitor and the headphones? Or any other tips would be great. Thanks! Dustin
The biggest problem I deal with (with the Minis) is noise and hum. Usually it’s alleviated using a stereo DI, yet today I did an install where the noise was still present; the mixer at the install is noisy, so that may be contributing despite successful installs with the Minis in the past. Switching the input to line level, I had no idea it was embedded in the software. Thank you for sharing!
Perhaps I missed it, but it would have been good to cover that the line input is unbalanced (Step down transformer is needed to avoid noise and headroom issues) and not +4dBu. So if you don’t use a pair of transformers, you need to keep the level down going in, then bring it up via the mixer. High pass is a good suggestion and I think you really should only use the limiter. Compression would be applied at the board.
Thanks for another great video. Just got our mini, and are loving it. One thing you might point out. We are using ours temporarily close up by the minister, with the Canon vid camera through the mini, and a Snowball Blue USB microphone set up right by a floor PA speaker for all of our audio pick up. The mic goes straight into the laptop. Well, you got me looking closer and indeed we had about a quarter second of delay of the video behind audio. There is an audio delay control that’s been added lately to the mini, but this won’t help. My ‘brilliant’ son said with a bit of a sneer, “just look in OBS, that’s very sophisticated software, it must have delay.” So, duh, I searched online about it and indeed there is a synch setting in the advanced controls for each audio source, which goes by milliseconds. I dialed in 250ms delay and for the first time our video has synchronized audio. Looks great. All of this is looking great thanks to you, and once we get back to “in person” we’ll move back to choir loft with a lock down camera shot from side wall per your recommendations. Looking forward to multi camera. Thanks again. - Tom
Excellent video @Ballast Media. Can't help but ask if any future video audio plans that may cover other software or tools, especially X-Split, but others as well such as Wirecast, Vmix, etc.?
Just what I was looking for. A video that would take someone like myself, with little technical knowledge, step by step through the process. Love how you split the videos in to parts too. Quick question, can I get a similar result by using, what I’m told is an easier platform, something like Streamyard. If so, is it something you’d consider making a video on 😉
Great video! The most frustrating for livestreaming is the audio. We have a Y cable coming off the mixer, one side is connected to the mini, the other side is to plug in headphones to hear the mix prior to going through the mini. The mix sounds fine in the headphones but what gets livestreamed to FB is really quiet (even though the meters in the mini are hitting the yellow area) plus its really flat and "tinny* sounding. I'm realizing now the mini has an EQ lol. Is there anyway to turn off that eq?
Hi I really like your easy to understand tutorials. I used these settings yesterday at our church stream and everything went pretty well, except I now have a couple of questions I hope you will answer. First when I changed the mic 1 to line it took almost all my gain away. I had to go back and use a third setting our Atem Extreme has that is called mic or output in?? I also noticed that there is a screen that shows makeup gain. Is this what I should have used to make up the lost gain by using line setting? Second question I am wanting to use the lower thirds from Propresenter 7 but our church has an older computer that is using VGA to 3 projectors. Atem requires me to connect using HDMI which I don't have. Is there another way to connect this computer to the Atem? Thanks for all your work it is really helping us church volunteers!
Nice video. I noticed the dynamics on our ATEM is VERY noisy! (high noise floor). Try engaging the compressor, expander or limiter with no audio passing into the ATEM. Now watch the audio meters - you will notice a lot of noise coming into them. I had to disable some of the dynamics as it noise was very audible during spoken word.
Good video. I wanna buy that model for home streams. At work I have ATEM Television Studio HD, but it have redundant functionality for me and my musical streams.
Yes you could. A couple compressors lightly compressing will sound better then one having to do more work. I'd set them both to be doing a little less reduction then with only one. Also, only one limiter at the end of the chain.
I’m big on low latency so my video/audio syncs up. Any other latency issues as of today? and do you have some recording done from it so I can see examples live? Thanks a lot for the info 💪🏽🙏🏽
Hi I have a problem .. I use atem mini & OBS for my streaming setup. When I record my video streaming from OBS it sounds good with no problem, but when it started to “stream video” then I watch it from Instagram Live it has no sound ....
Hmmm, how are you going to Instagram? They don't officially support streaming from anything but the app. Are you using yellow duck? What are your audio settings in OBS?
Thanks for your great videos! Question: Will this device, and following the instructions you mentioned in this video help with following LKFS (or LUFS) monitoring requirements? I'm mixing through an A&H board into a complete audio 6 and into OBS and out to CASTR (via your CASTR tutorial, thanks). The worship music (keys, ac. guit. 3 vocals) sounded great on youtube but on FB it sounds fine for about 7 seconds then you can hear their compression kick in and the instruments sound like toys. My research is saying that for facebook I should be at around -16 LKFS. Will this device and instructions help with this problem? Or do you have another video that addresses this?
You would still need to measure and adjust to hit those targets accurately, but yet, using a compressor is the way to hit the target and average you want.
Hi, thanks for the very helpful video. I currently have 4 mics going into a firewire interface, and within Ableton Live, I apply EQ and compression and other bits such as limiting and deessers. Would I be able to plug the headphone output of my interface straight into the mic input of the Atem? I'm assuming there will be an audio delay as it's running through my DAW first, is there any delay compensation you're aware of within the Atem software? Many Thanks
Great infos ! Do you how to avoid atem mini to make an audio input appear only on the left channel ? I tried to do that by splitting the channels into mono but it mutes the audio completely even though it appears on the decibel meter.
Hi Steven, Thanks for the video. Are there any settings in the Audio control panel of ATEM MINI that you suggest to control the internal noise occurring due to the AC & Fan during the Live sessions?
Would you still recommend the canon xf15 and the xf200 for multi cam shoot? You recommended these cameras in 2016 and I was wondering would that be the same recommendations given this is 2020. Thanks in advance
thanks for the helpful video! i will be streaming live music via 4 different cameras in four different areas of the studio. all the music will be fed into a single mixer. i was wondering: 1) since the cameras will only be for visual purposes, do i need to go the iso route? 2) any advantage, from a STRICTLY audio standpoint, to go with extreme rather than pro? thanks again!
Great tutorial... We use a small Mackie creator mixer that has 4 separate headphones output jacks... Wondering about patching from my headphone output to the mic input of the atem switcher... This way it leaves my full size mixer line level outputs jacks available for the powered monitors and other works... What do you think?
Better not to use headphone output to drive line inputs. There is an impedance mismatch there that can cause distortion earlier then you'd normally have. If your mixer doesn't have enough line level outputs, just use a distributor, something like this can work: amzn.to/42Y6Smt
Thanks for these videos. Lots of information for this old person to digest. I do have a question. We ordered the Atem Mini to live stream to FB. We are giving up the cellphone finally. We use Behringer XR18 mixer for the worship service. What is the best way to get the audio into the Mini and how. You mention stereo, we will be mono since we have only one AUX left. Is it at all possible to use the headphone jack output to the mic input on the Mini or the mic input of the camera? Side note... the worship team at your church is amazing! And yes, you are a master at getting the sound to show how amazing they are. Blessings from Poland.
You can run the one Aux output you have left from the XR18, use a cable like this (amzn.to/2UTbGHk) but only connect one of the 1/4" ends in to the mixer. What will happen is that you will then get audio on just one channel in to the Mini. BUT, in the settings in the Atem Control Software, click the gear icon at the lower left and go to the audio tab. There is a setting there to split the audio coming in to individual channels instead of "stereo." So then your one channel of audio will be routed to both Left and Right. (Thanks for the kind words!)
We record via 2x 8 channel interfaces run Aggregate on a Mac Pro into Presonus Studio One 4 Pro. Is there a way to use the ATEM Mini for a livestream sound? I'm really at a loss on how to record and get a mix for a livestream from the DAW... Any ideas?
Great video ! But I am not an audio maestro :) So excuse me if I am asking meaningless questions. I have two wireless lavalier mics (1 Sennheisser ew100G3 and 1 Sony UTX-B03) and their original cables (1 xlr and 1 3.5mm outputs), so my question is do I have to choose "line" instead of "microphone" at the ATEM Mini setup software ? Thanks a lot
It depends what the output of the device is. If your signal is really low and you are on Line, switch to Mic. If you are on Mic and it's distorting easily, switch to Line.
Excellent video, thank you! Question about XLR to 3.5 cable. Does this cable attenuate the line output signal from a mixer down to a mic level signal? I see a product like Shure A15LA that is used to attenuate one XLR output to a mic level signal. It's $36 each. So I'm thinking if I needed a 3.5 mic stereo mic input for my camera or the ATEM device, I need 2 of these attenuators connected to the cable you recommended below. Is that correct?
No, you don't need the attenuator with the Mini because it will do the conversion for you internally. Just go in the software configuration like I show in the video and set it to Line level and you'll be fine.
Can you help me with this question. I use Atem mini pro extreme ISO and I have connected Camera1 (BMPCC6K) to HDMI1 input on Atem, Macbook pro to HDMI2 input and USBc also to macbook. My Microphone is connected to Camera1. I attend Zoom calls and I record all inputs however the sound of the guest in Zoom call is not getting recorded to ATEM. I connect headphone to macbook to hear the guest, but I can't get their audio in audio and video files for HDMI1 or HDMI2. Can you help me understand how can I get the audio of the guest in zoom or another conference app on to ATEM recording.
Awesome video, guys! Question: i want to live stream my recording sessions. I'm using my Apollo Twin to record my audio and Logic as my DAW. Using my ATEM Mini Pro, how can I share the audio from Logic, while i'm recording, in the broadcast?
@@BallastMedia I use the headphone jack in the Apollo to hear the tracks, while i play, and i use the two monitor TRS outputs from Apollo to connect into my Focal CMS 40 speakers. What I'd like to do is have my audience be able to listen to the session and my playing straight from my Mac/Logic into the ATEM Mini Pro on Mic 2 and have my Lavalier Mic on Mic 1.
Hi Bro Stephen , your video are great ! As many countries having lockdown for the pandemic of covid , our church has to progress to live stream. However , we facing the audio issue , where the buzzing sound is very loud from the beginning, once we reduce the volume, it will be slightly lower , but still existing . We are using blackmagic mini pro & direct plug in from our mixer.
Sounds like it could be a ground loop. First thing to determine is where is it coming from. If you solo the output on the mixer you are using to send to the Atem in headphones, do you hear the same buzz?
Important to note, if you're running 1/4" out to the ATEM. (This doesn't apply if you use XLR outputs.) The suggested dual 1/4" to 1/8" cable for sending audio from board to ATEM assumes your board is outputting *unbalanced* audio, and so it's appropriate to hook up to it a cable that has only two strips of metal visible on the plug, the Tip and the Sleeve (TS). TS cables send two different signals along two different wires: a ground signal on one, and the audio signal on the other. But often sound board outputs are *balanced* audio (which is much more resistant to interference than unbalanced audio, hence works over longer distances). And balanced audio requires a balanced cable containing *three* wires, with plugs consisting of three strips of metal: the Tip, a Ring, and Sleeve (TRS). A mono balanced signal breaks down into three signals in a balanced cable: a ground signal, then two other signals that encode the audio signal but in a manner overall resistant to interference. (XLR outputs will similarly transmit a mono balanced signal through their plug's three pins.) If you try using the recommended unbalanced dual 1/4" to 1/8" cable when your board outputs balanced audio, you're gonna have a bad time. If the balanced audio is "impedance balanced" (Tip is signal, Ring and Sleeve are ground), I believe it'll still work (but you're vulnerable to interference). But if it's "symmetrically" or perhaps "electronically" balanced (Tip is half signal, Ring is *inverted* half signal, Sleeve is ground -- so the actual signal is Tip minus Ring), audio will either be very degraded or just won't work, I'm not entirely sure which. If your board's outputs are balanced, you need to include a balanced-unbalanced conversion in the pipeline. Running two balanced 1/4" TRS to XLR cables from board to an ART CLEANBoxPro Dual-Channel Level Converter, then running a (ideally short) TRS-TRS microphone cable from that into the ATEM, should do the trick (I believe with the input set to Mic in ATEM settings). This will give you a stereo audio input, left/right corresponding to the two board outputs. If you only have one board output, you can just run it to the ART box, then in ATEM settings split the mic input and pan the active half to center and turn the unused half to zero.
Probably the easiest way to monitor is to use your computer - connect to it's headphone output and in OBS set the audio properties to Monitor and Output.
Hi Ballast, thanks for another great video! I learned a great deal from your sharing. I have two questions: 1. I've recently tried a live stream and it didn't turn out well. Found that it was caused by the cable from mix out (mono XLR) to mic in on Atem Mini (3.5 TRS Stereo). The live stream audio was ok when hearing using earpiece or headphone over mobile phone, but completely inaudible thr' the phone speaker out (some brands work ok though). Tried with another cable (like the one in your video) with 2x 1/4" jacks to 3.5mm TRS Stereo it works ok. How would I know if the cable is connected properly? Or can it be done like that in the first place? Whether I switch to Line or Mic in Atem Control Software was the same result. 2. My setup has a hissing background noise all the time (also shown thr' the audio meter). How to remove the noise? via hardware or software? Thank you very much!
I'm not sure what your question in #1 is, it sounds like you solved the problem by using the correct cable? You can monitor your audio in OBS on the computer if you need to verify it is coming in correctly. In Advanced Audio Properties turn the Monitor option to Monitor and Output. As far as #2, it sounds like a gain staging issue or impedance mis-match (mic and line level) or if could just be cheap quality components in the signal chain. Where is your audio coming from? What is the path to the Mini? How long is the cable?
@@BallastMedia Hi Ballast, thank you for another tip about monitoring audio via OBS. I was actually thinking of connecting a HDMI audio extractor to monitor the audio out from Atem Mini. Back to my question 1, yes after the failed streaming, I tried with the 2x 1/4" jacks (Alt Out from mixer A&H Q16 mixer) to 3.5mm stereo TRS cable (Atem Mini) and it's ok. My question is to learn more about the 'failed' cable (mono XLR (Mix Out from same mixer) to 3.5mm stereo TRS), I'm suspecting the vendor might have soldered it wrongly and wonder if there is a way to fix it so it works as well, 'cos in my mixer, I'll have greater control if I'm using mix out. Question 2: The audio came out from Allen & Heath Q16 mixer, via (either) of the two cables I mentioned above in Question1, into Atem Mini direct. Both cables have the hissing noise. The 2x 1/4" jacks cable is 5m and the Mono-XLR cable is 8m. Thank you!! :)
Hi! I think your videos are super good! I'm trying my Sony RX100 MKV and my GoPro for some live Dj stream so also I'm going from a mixer to input 1 in Atem Mini. My problem is that I have different delays with the different cameras. And I mean how they sync with audio. Is this something that you think I can do something about somehow? Thanks once again for the super good informative videos!
Try and get all the cameras to output the same video standard (resolution and frame rate) the difference in timing is because it's taking the Mini different amounts of time to deal with the different video standards from your cameras.
Hey! Thanks for these super video tutorial! Do these rules also apply if you record on obs? (no live stream). Can I also connect the rode wireless go or a shotgun microphone on the Atem mini? Using OBS I currently connect my rode wireless go to the mac, but this does not allow me to monitor the audio because I only have one 3.5mm jack output (which I use for the mic rode). What do you suggest me? thank you so much!
What you are describing should work fine. You can record in OBS from the Mini. As long as the microphone doesn't require phantom power you can connect the microphone to the Mini.
Sir while using atem mini im getting audio first and video later.. there is a delay in video. So i adjusted the audio latency to 8frames even though video audio arent syncing.. please help. We are using panasonic ux90 and sony nx200
First of all. Thanks very much for your videos. With the ATEM Mini, can the HDMI out be used for Video Distribution, like connecting to AJA HD5DA or similar. Would you cover Video Distribution with this unit in the future? Thanks in advance.
Yes, the HDMI out could be used in that way. The limitation you'll have to live with is the HDMI out also serves as the preview out (switchable between being used as preview and program output.) You'd have to switch it to program output to use for distribution and then you would lose the capability to preview a source before taking it live. Depending on how you are using the Mini this could work, or it might not.
@@BallastMedia Should I convert HDMI out to SDI to use the AJA HD5DA? I need to run SDI cable due to distance. Or is there a better solution? Thanks for your reply
@@drpoloche Yes, convert to SDI. There is a BMD distributor that is a bit cheaper (amzn.to/38NlRmG) and then BMD microconverters are pretty cheap. (amzn.to/37Iq0XD) I'd maybe have a spare on hand though!
Thanks so much for this. Quick question. When one does the "save startup state," does that save the settings on the actual device itself (meaning I don't have to connect it to the software and "restore" settings? I've always saved the settings on the desktop via "save as" and have always restored such settings. The "save startup state" simply saves the specs on the hardware itself so I don't need the software to update those settings? Is that correct?
We were going to get an audio interface (Scarlett 2i2) to get a clean output into OBS from our mixer but would this be needed if were were to go with the ATEM (mixer to stem to computer & mix with ATEM)?
Hi Ballast . i intent to livestream with one keyboardist and 2 vocalists. My question is if i use a mixer to feed in Mini or mixer + interface to PC, which way is better in term of sound quality. Thanks
Great info, thanks for this, Stephen!
Excellent information, cleanly presented. Wonderful work! Also, you're the first video I've found that shows how to change from Mic to Line level in the ATEM Control software.
This was exactly what I needed. I have a line signal and I was afraid to go direct into ATEM due to lag rumours, and my cheap Canon camera only has Mic levels in. Thank you!
Loving this ATEM mini series! I will buy this hardware because of this playlist! Thank you!
I want to thank you for these video guides. Too many pros assume we get all the technical language, or just go to fast.
Excellent video, my man. These step-by-step methodical approaches really help me get things together.
This is the best video explaining audio connectivity for live streaming !!!!
Great job with this ATEM Mini series. A real live saver. Subbed.
Nice Job, Easy to understand. Explained well and also great template for compression/limiting and EQ. Thanks!
You are one of the best teachers on CZcams!
hats off to you sir have been dealing with bad audio forever
Thanks for nicely explaining the settings. Looking forward to many more.
Thanks for mentioning the update that corrects the sync issues! I'm about to order the mini pro but I had been 'hearing' issues with the sound sync with direct mic inputs. Now I feel better with the plan to use a boom mic connected to the mini pro.
Best explanation so far! Apparently, I will also need the 1/8 to XRL cable
Thank you for a great walkthrough and tutorial!
Thank you sir. I have the traditional Atem Mini and was kinda stuck. After watching this video I'm definitely getting things done. I will share the link to your CZcams channel so you get 1million subs ❤🎉
And once again thanks, my new mini pro (to me, bought second hand for a good price) is now all setup :)
Love your work. Helped us a lot!
Thank-you! You answered my questions straightaway.
Thank you. I've been looking for this informatuion for ages.
So have i...it was an INSTANT gratification
Dude.....I have been trying for weeks to run my Korg Kross 2 Keyboard workstation and usb microphone through my Atem Mini Pro and could never get my sound mixed properly.In just less than 10 minutes I have 3 variations of presets for varying scenarios.....Thanks man,you are a life saver!
Thank You. This video was clear and concise.
Thanks for the video. It's timely
Thank you for this video ! We have some sound issues with a sport broadcast for one of our clients, it will really help us
Good stuff. I needed a straight forward video about setting the audio levels, compression and limiter on the mini so when my mate and his companion are live on facebook, and he treaks the gain for a little more omph, I don't have to constantly tweak the audio and can concentrate on the video and monitor the stream.
Amazing tutorial. Thx!
fantastic, complete video. Thanks a lot.
Thank you. Just starting with the atem at my church and audio has been an issue. This should help a ton.
Awesome man! I'm hoping to pick up one of these soon to improve my online drum lessons. I can have my drum mix go to input 1 and my talkback on input 2 to switch between talking and playing. As well as free up all my usb ports! 😂
Really helpful. Thank you
Thanks Stephen! I will try it.
Awesome, thx for that, you helped me so much!
Thanks for this!
wooooow you answered all my questions......Thank you Sir
Thank you so much Sir.
Great content. Thanks!!!
Hey Stephen! Thanks for this video. You've been a great resource in my streaming journey. I've learned a ton from you and appreciate it! So here is my current problem. I'm trying to monitor my audio from the headphone jack on my Feelworld F5 monitor and can barely hear anything. I have the monitor volume all the way up and have all of my audio setting as I think they should be and its so quiet still. Do I need to run a headphone amp between the monitor and the headphones? Or any other tips would be great. Thanks! Dustin
Great video!!
The biggest problem I deal with (with the Minis) is noise and hum. Usually it’s alleviated using a stereo DI, yet today I did an install where the noise was still present; the mixer at the install is noisy, so that may be contributing despite successful installs with the Minis in the past. Switching the input to line level, I had no idea it was embedded in the software. Thank you for sharing!
Perhaps I missed it, but it would have been good to cover that the line input is unbalanced (Step down transformer is needed to avoid noise and headroom issues) and not +4dBu. So if you don’t use a pair of transformers, you need to keep the level down going in, then bring it up via the mixer. High pass is a good suggestion and I think you really should only use the limiter. Compression would be applied at the board.
Thanks for another great video. Just got our mini, and are loving it. One thing you might point out. We are using ours temporarily close up by the minister, with the Canon vid camera through the mini, and a Snowball Blue USB microphone set up right by a floor PA speaker for all of our audio pick up. The mic goes straight into the laptop. Well, you got me looking closer and indeed we had about a quarter second of delay of the video behind audio. There is an audio delay control that’s been added lately to the mini, but this won’t help. My ‘brilliant’ son said with a bit of a sneer, “just look in OBS, that’s very sophisticated software, it must have delay.” So, duh, I searched online about it and indeed there is a synch setting in the advanced controls for each audio source, which goes by milliseconds. I dialed in 250ms delay and for the first time our video has synchronized audio. Looks great. All of this is looking great thanks to you, and once we get back to “in person” we’ll move back to choir loft with a lock down camera shot from side wall per your recommendations. Looking forward to multi camera. Thanks again. - Tom
you can also do this in the ATEM software.
Thank you for video.
Big thumbs up Stephen!
this was really great
great video :):) thanks
thank you sir you r the best ...ahmed from tunisia
Thank you, my congregation is going to benefit a lot from this, to be able to spread the word, let the glory be to God.
Very useful!
Can you also tell us something about the gate function? Great overview so far!
Excellent video @Ballast Media. Can't help but ask if any future video audio plans that may cover other software or tools, especially X-Split, but others as well such as Wirecast, Vmix, etc.?
thanks for the video
Just what I was looking for. A video that would take someone like myself, with little technical knowledge, step by step through the process. Love how you split the videos in to parts too.
Quick question, can I get a similar result by using, what I’m told is an easier platform, something like Streamyard. If so, is it something you’d consider making a video on 😉
Very helpful
Great Job
THANK YOU.
excellent
Thank you. I love us. :)
When will you do part four in this series?
Great video! The most frustrating for livestreaming is the audio. We have a Y cable coming off the mixer, one side is connected to the mini, the other side is to plug in headphones to hear the mix prior to going through the mini. The mix sounds fine in the headphones but what gets livestreamed to FB is really quiet (even though the meters in the mini are hitting the yellow area) plus its really flat and "tinny* sounding. I'm realizing now the mini has an EQ lol. Is there anyway to turn off that eq?
Hi I really like your easy to understand tutorials. I used these settings yesterday at our church stream and everything went pretty well, except I now have a couple of questions I hope you will answer.
First when I changed the mic 1 to line it took almost all my gain away. I had to go back and use a third setting our Atem Extreme has that is called mic or output in?? I also noticed that there is a screen that shows makeup gain. Is this what I should have used to make up the lost gain by using line setting?
Second question I am wanting to use the lower thirds from Propresenter 7 but our church has an older computer that is using VGA to 3 projectors. Atem requires me to connect using HDMI which I don't have. Is there another way to connect this computer to the Atem? Thanks for all your work it is really helping us church volunteers!
Thank you for the video. Is it possible to get a Dante Audio input in Atem Mini Pro?
Nice video. I noticed the dynamics on our ATEM is VERY noisy! (high noise floor). Try engaging the compressor, expander or limiter with no audio passing into the ATEM. Now watch the audio meters - you will notice a lot of noise coming into them. I had to disable some of the dynamics as it noise was very audible during spoken word.
THANKS
thanks
Thanks for the Video! Is the audio from HDMI output just a bypass or after effect (with EQ, compressor that has applied)? Thank you
thank you sir
Good stuff
Good video. I wanna buy that model for home streams. At work I have ATEM Television Studio HD, but it have redundant functionality for me and my musical streams.
Great video! Do you recommend using compressor in the mixer as well? I send a aux bus to streaming.
Yes you could. A couple compressors lightly compressing will sound better then one having to do more work. I'd set them both to be doing a little less reduction then with only one. Also, only one limiter at the end of the chain.
I’m big on low latency so my video/audio syncs up. Any other latency issues as of today? and do you have some recording done from it so I can see examples live? Thanks a lot for the info 💪🏽🙏🏽
Hi I have a problem .. I use atem mini & OBS for my streaming setup. When I record my video streaming from OBS it sounds good with no problem, but when it started to “stream video” then I watch it from Instagram Live it has no sound ....
Hmmm, how are you going to Instagram? They don't officially support streaming from anything but the app. Are you using yellow duck? What are your audio settings in OBS?
Thanks for your great videos! Question: Will this device, and following the instructions you mentioned in this video help with following LKFS (or LUFS) monitoring requirements? I'm mixing through an A&H board into a complete audio 6 and into OBS and out to CASTR (via your CASTR tutorial, thanks). The worship music (keys, ac. guit. 3 vocals) sounded great on youtube but on FB it sounds fine for about 7 seconds then you can hear their compression kick in and the instruments sound like toys. My research is saying that for facebook I should be at around -16 LKFS. Will this device and instructions help with this problem? Or do you have another video that addresses this?
You would still need to measure and adjust to hit those targets accurately, but yet, using a compressor is the way to hit the target and average you want.
Hi, thanks for the very helpful video. I currently have 4 mics going into a firewire interface, and within Ableton Live, I apply EQ and compression and other bits such as limiting and deessers. Would I be able to plug the headphone output of my interface straight into the mic input of the Atem? I'm assuming there will be an audio delay as it's running through my DAW first, is there any delay compensation you're aware of within the Atem software? Many Thanks
Can you see that audio interface in OBS? I'd just use that and have obs combine your audio and video, rather then do another AD/DA conversion.
Great infos ! Do you how to avoid atem mini to make an audio input appear only on the left channel ? I tried to do that by splitting the channels into mono but it mutes the audio completely even though it appears on the decibel meter.
Hi Steven, Thanks for the video. Are there any settings in the Audio control panel of ATEM MINI that you suggest to control the internal noise occurring due to the AC & Fan during the Live sessions?
You could turn on the gate to "turn off" the audio when signal is low.
Great video! So if I'm just using audio from a Camera 1 mic I just turn Audio on in Cam 1 in Audio Control on the ATEM?
Correct.
Would you still recommend the canon xf15 and the xf200 for multi cam shoot? You recommended these cameras in 2016 and I was wondering would that be the same recommendations given this is 2020. Thanks in advance
thanks for the helpful video! i will be streaming live music via 4 different cameras in four different areas of the studio. all the music will be fed into a single mixer. i was wondering: 1) since the cameras will only be for visual purposes, do i need to go the iso route? 2) any advantage, from a STRICTLY audio standpoint, to go with extreme rather than pro? thanks again!
Audio is the same on all Mini models as far as I'm aware.
Great . How do You remove the controller stuff on the screen when using iPhone as camera? I only want to show the picture
Great tutorial...
We use a small Mackie creator mixer that has 4 separate headphones output jacks...
Wondering about patching from my headphone output to the mic input of the atem switcher...
This way it leaves my full size mixer line level outputs jacks available for the powered monitors and other works...
What do you think?
Better not to use headphone output to drive line inputs. There is an impedance mismatch there that can cause distortion earlier then you'd normally have.
If your mixer doesn't have enough line level outputs, just use a distributor, something like this can work: amzn.to/42Y6Smt
Thanks for these videos. Lots of information for this old person to digest.
I do have a question. We ordered the Atem Mini to live stream to FB. We are giving up the cellphone finally. We use Behringer XR18 mixer for the worship service. What is the best way to get the audio into the Mini and how. You mention stereo, we will be mono since we have only one AUX left.
Is it at all possible to use the headphone jack output to the mic input on the Mini or the mic input of the camera?
Side note... the worship team at your church is amazing! And yes, you are a master at getting the sound to show how amazing they are.
Blessings from Poland.
You can run the one Aux output you have left from the XR18, use a cable like this (amzn.to/2UTbGHk) but only connect one of the 1/4" ends in to the mixer. What will happen is that you will then get audio on just one channel in to the Mini. BUT, in the settings in the Atem Control Software, click the gear icon at the lower left and go to the audio tab. There is a setting there to split the audio coming in to individual channels instead of "stereo." So then your one channel of audio will be routed to both Left and Right. (Thanks for the kind words!)
@@BallastMedia Thank you. I sort of figured that would be the answer! Thanks for all the work you put into these videos! Amazing!
We record via 2x 8 channel interfaces run Aggregate on a Mac Pro into Presonus Studio One 4 Pro. Is there a way to use the ATEM Mini for a livestream sound? I'm really at a loss on how to record and get a mix for a livestream from the DAW... Any ideas?
Great video ! But I am not an audio maestro :) So excuse me if I am asking meaningless questions. I have two wireless lavalier mics (1 Sennheisser ew100G3 and 1 Sony UTX-B03) and their original cables (1 xlr and 1 3.5mm outputs), so my question is do I have to choose "line" instead of "microphone" at the ATEM Mini setup software ? Thanks a lot
It depends what the output of the device is. If your signal is really low and you are on Line, switch to Mic. If you are on Mic and it's distorting easily, switch to Line.
Excellent video, thank you! Question about XLR to 3.5 cable. Does this cable attenuate the line output signal from a mixer down to a mic level signal? I see a product like Shure A15LA that is used to attenuate one XLR output to a mic level signal. It's $36 each. So I'm thinking if I needed a 3.5 mic stereo mic input for my camera or the ATEM device, I need 2 of these attenuators connected to the cable you recommended below. Is that correct?
No, you don't need the attenuator with the Mini because it will do the conversion for you internally. Just go in the software configuration like I show in the video and set it to Line level and you'll be fine.
@@BallastMedia Thank you. I guess I do need them though if I used the mic input on my Sony handycam while the Mini is back-ordered.
Can you help me with this question. I use Atem mini pro extreme ISO and I have connected Camera1 (BMPCC6K) to HDMI1 input on Atem, Macbook pro to HDMI2 input and USBc also to macbook. My Microphone is connected to Camera1. I attend Zoom calls and I record all inputs however the sound of the guest in Zoom call is not getting recorded to ATEM. I connect headphone to macbook to hear the guest, but I can't get their audio in audio and video files for HDMI1 or HDMI2. Can you help me understand how can I get the audio of the guest in zoom or another conference app on to ATEM recording.
first check the MacBook can send audio on hdmi, e.g. czcams.com/video/5qZyGi8kWtM/video.html
Awesome video, guys! Question: i want to live stream my recording sessions. I'm using my Apollo Twin to record my audio and Logic as my DAW. Using my ATEM Mini Pro, how can I share the audio from Logic, while i'm recording, in the broadcast?
How do you output and monitor your audio?
@@BallastMedia I use the headphone jack in the Apollo to hear the tracks, while i play, and i use the two monitor TRS outputs from Apollo to connect into my Focal CMS 40 speakers. What I'd like to do is have my audience be able to listen to the session and my playing straight from my Mac/Logic into the ATEM Mini Pro on Mic 2 and have my Lavalier Mic on Mic 1.
Hi Bro Stephen , your video are great ! As many countries having lockdown for the pandemic of covid , our church has to progress to live stream. However , we facing the audio issue , where the buzzing sound is very loud from the beginning, once we reduce the volume, it will be slightly lower , but still existing .
We are using blackmagic mini pro & direct plug in from our mixer.
Sounds like it could be a ground loop. First thing to determine is where is it coming from. If you solo the output on the mixer you are using to send to the Atem in headphones, do you hear the same buzz?
Important to note, if you're running 1/4" out to the ATEM. (This doesn't apply if you use XLR outputs.)
The suggested dual 1/4" to 1/8" cable for sending audio from board to ATEM assumes your board is outputting *unbalanced* audio, and so it's appropriate to hook up to it a cable that has only two strips of metal visible on the plug, the Tip and the Sleeve (TS). TS cables send two different signals along two different wires: a ground signal on one, and the audio signal on the other.
But often sound board outputs are *balanced* audio (which is much more resistant to interference than unbalanced audio, hence works over longer distances). And balanced audio requires a balanced cable containing *three* wires, with plugs consisting of three strips of metal: the Tip, a Ring, and Sleeve (TRS). A mono balanced signal breaks down into three signals in a balanced cable: a ground signal, then two other signals that encode the audio signal but in a manner overall resistant to interference. (XLR outputs will similarly transmit a mono balanced signal through their plug's three pins.)
If you try using the recommended unbalanced dual 1/4" to 1/8" cable when your board outputs balanced audio, you're gonna have a bad time. If the balanced audio is "impedance balanced" (Tip is signal, Ring and Sleeve are ground), I believe it'll still work (but you're vulnerable to interference). But if it's "symmetrically" or perhaps "electronically" balanced (Tip is half signal, Ring is *inverted* half signal, Sleeve is ground -- so the actual signal is Tip minus Ring), audio will either be very degraded or just won't work, I'm not entirely sure which.
If your board's outputs are balanced, you need to include a balanced-unbalanced conversion in the pipeline. Running two balanced 1/4" TRS to XLR cables from board to an ART CLEANBoxPro Dual-Channel Level Converter, then running a (ideally short) TRS-TRS microphone cable from that into the ATEM, should do the trick (I believe with the input set to Mic in ATEM settings). This will give you a stereo audio input, left/right corresponding to the two board outputs. If you only have one board output, you can just run it to the ART box, then in ATEM settings split the mic input and pan the active half to center and turn the unused half to zero.
What about using the 1/4” line outputs on a Focusrite 8i8 into the Mini?
Should work.
Could you make a video explaining how to add headphones in order to listen to the output?
Probably the easiest way to monitor is to use your computer - connect to it's headphone output and in OBS set the audio properties to Monitor and Output.
Hi Ballast, thanks for another great video! I learned a great deal from your sharing.
I have two questions:
1. I've recently tried a live stream and it didn't turn out well. Found that it was caused by the cable from mix out (mono XLR) to mic in on Atem Mini (3.5 TRS Stereo). The live stream audio was ok when hearing using earpiece or headphone over mobile phone, but completely inaudible thr' the phone speaker out (some brands work ok though). Tried with another cable (like the one in your video) with 2x 1/4" jacks to 3.5mm TRS Stereo it works ok.
How would I know if the cable is connected properly? Or can it be done like that in the first place? Whether I switch to Line or Mic in Atem Control Software was the same result.
2. My setup has a hissing background noise all the time (also shown thr' the audio meter). How to remove the noise? via hardware or software?
Thank you very much!
I'm not sure what your question in #1 is, it sounds like you solved the problem by using the correct cable? You can monitor your audio in OBS on the computer if you need to verify it is coming in correctly. In Advanced Audio Properties turn the Monitor option to Monitor and Output. As far as #2, it sounds like a gain staging issue or impedance mis-match (mic and line level) or if could just be cheap quality components in the signal chain. Where is your audio coming from? What is the path to the Mini? How long is the cable?
@@BallastMedia Hi Ballast, thank you for another tip about monitoring audio via OBS. I was actually thinking of connecting a HDMI audio extractor to monitor the audio out from Atem Mini.
Back to my question 1, yes after the failed streaming, I tried with the 2x 1/4" jacks (Alt Out from mixer A&H Q16 mixer) to 3.5mm stereo TRS cable (Atem Mini) and it's ok. My question is to learn more about the 'failed' cable (mono XLR (Mix Out from same mixer) to 3.5mm stereo TRS), I'm suspecting the vendor might have soldered it wrongly and wonder if there is a way to fix it so it works as well, 'cos in my mixer, I'll have greater control if I'm using mix out.
Question 2: The audio came out from Allen & Heath Q16 mixer, via (either) of the two cables I mentioned above in Question1, into Atem Mini direct. Both cables have the hissing noise. The 2x 1/4" jacks cable is 5m and the Mono-XLR cable is 8m.
Thank you!! :)
Hi! I think your videos are super good! I'm trying my Sony RX100 MKV and my GoPro for some live Dj stream so also I'm going from a mixer to input 1 in Atem Mini. My problem is that I have different delays with the different cameras. And I mean how they sync with audio. Is this something that you think I can do something about somehow? Thanks once again for the super good informative videos!
Try and get all the cameras to output the same video standard (resolution and frame rate) the difference in timing is because it's taking the Mini different amounts of time to deal with the different video standards from your cameras.
@@BallastMedia you are truly a help sent from above! :) Thanks man!!
Hey! Thanks for these super video tutorial! Do these rules also apply if you record on obs? (no live stream). Can I also connect the rode wireless go or a shotgun microphone on the Atem mini? Using OBS I currently connect my rode wireless go to the mac, but this does not allow me to monitor the audio because I only have one 3.5mm jack output (which I use for the mic rode). What do you suggest me? thank you so much!
What you are describing should work fine. You can record in OBS from the Mini. As long as the microphone doesn't require phantom power you can connect the microphone to the Mini.
Francesco Bianchi does the 3.5mm push the 5v? For the rode micro?
2:57 hi! which software did you use to check audio sync? thanks
This is the method I use to check sync: czcams.com/video/UCmr0KwbXxA/video.html
@@BallastMedia thanks!
Sir while using atem mini im getting audio first and video later.. there is a delay in video. So i adjusted the audio latency to 8frames even though video audio arent syncing.. please help. We are using panasonic ux90 and sony nx200
First of all. Thanks very much for your videos. With the ATEM Mini, can the HDMI out be used for Video Distribution, like connecting to AJA HD5DA or similar. Would you cover Video Distribution with this unit in the future? Thanks in advance.
Yes, the HDMI out could be used in that way. The limitation you'll have to live with is the HDMI out also serves as the preview out (switchable between being used as preview and program output.) You'd have to switch it to program output to use for distribution and then you would lose the capability to preview a source before taking it live. Depending on how you are using the Mini this could work, or it might not.
@@BallastMedia Should I convert HDMI out to SDI to use the AJA HD5DA? I need to run SDI cable due to distance. Or is there a better solution? Thanks for your reply
@@drpoloche Yes, convert to SDI. There is a BMD distributor that is a bit cheaper (amzn.to/38NlRmG) and then BMD microconverters are pretty cheap. (amzn.to/37Iq0XD) I'd maybe have a spare on hand though!
Thanks so much for this. Quick question. When one does the "save startup state," does that save the settings on the actual device itself (meaning I don't have to connect it to the software and "restore" settings? I've always saved the settings on the desktop via "save as" and have always restored such settings. The "save startup state" simply saves the specs on the hardware itself so I don't need the software to update those settings? Is that correct?
Yes, that's correct.
We were going to get an audio interface (Scarlett 2i2) to get a clean output into OBS from our mixer but would this be needed if were were to go with the ATEM (mixer to stem to computer & mix with ATEM)?
Not needed, no.
Hi Ballast . i intent to livestream with one keyboardist and 2 vocalists. My question is if i use a mixer to feed in Mini or mixer + interface to PC, which way is better in term of sound quality. Thanks
Using a dedicated audio interface may sound better, but in reality I doubt you will notice much difference.
Kool. Do i really need a box to convert 1/8" balanced to unbalanced signal to Mini?
How to livestream in 4k? Any other equipment?