TOTAL Control of your Audio in OBS | Virtual Audio Cables [2022]
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- If you want full control of your audio in OBS, you need to learn how to use Virtual Audio Cables. It's easy to set up and use, so you can control your audio in OBS Studio.
Make sure to watch the video all the way, or you'll miss some important info. Then you'll be like "why can't I hear the sound now that it's going to the Virtual Audio Cable?"
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Let me know... did this help?
yes! do you have a version for mac?
@@Lure-Light yes. just go to their website here: vb-audio.com/Cable/
there is a free virtual audio cable program that allows you to have as many v-cables as you need its called breakaway pipline
Hi Aran, I quite didn't understand how all of this helps if I want to have the secondary virtual cable for recorded videos. Meaning, I play Spotify for LIVE streams but another soundtrack is played in the archived video to avoid any copyright problems.
@@GMNeiksans Use this video for that: czcams.com/video/UrppylZ4MeY/video.html
If anyone's having issues with this now: This is kinda out of date! Not in that it's wrong/broken, it still contains useful information, but in that OBS can now do a lot of this for you if you add "Application Audio Capture"s to your sources.
However, virtual cables are notably still very useful when you want to have stream only audio, that you don't have to hear yourself.
Hey I have a question I don’t have the audio capture future I have latest update
Do you know if it’ll separate so people don’t get strikes on their VOD?
@@Just.A.Smidge you still have to go into the audio settings and untick the second box if you dont want the audio in the VOD
@@luchollaar9025 FYI VB-Audio company started selling the VB-Audio Additional Virtual Cables AB + CD pack separately. There's archives online that have the AB CD pack for free if you want to go that route. Let me know if you need help finding it.
So, basically, we don't need Voicemeeter anymore? I can't believe how much simpler this is now. Thank you so much!
Honestly don’t even need the VAC download, if you use Steam it comes with 2 “virtual audio cables” when you stream called steam streaming “___” 2 cables for free
@@zeptfatal8286 can you elobarate?
@@zeptfatal8286 wait what
As someone who is brand new to this type of things, this was immensly helpful and solved all my issues with the sound and recording. Now i can finally listen to music while recording.
awesome! glad it helped
I have looked at many videos😵💫...... No Success😡... Came across you video and it has saved the day!!! You are awesome!! 🤩 Thank you so much!
This was the most well explained video on this sound setup that I've seen yet. You're awesome man!!
Ayyyyy tysm!
In professional recording studios, outputs are generally placed on top and inputs are placed on the bottom of a patchbay, which is essentially a hub connecting all the studio's hardware. This is done because having an output placed directly on top of an input allows the patchbay to automatically route that output (of that piece of hardware) into the input (of another piece of hardware) without the use of using a physical cable. But you are right, in this case where they show the outputs and inputs of the same source, it makes no sense to have the output on top and input on the bottom lol
so find a different video bc this dude has no clue what he is talking about?
awesome! O^O
thank you bro. this was so simple. other people are not as direct. Much love.
Thanks!
Your a lifesaver dude! Now I won't have to deal with Twitch thinking I am listening to a DMCA song (when in fact I was listening to something royalty free on pretzelrocks) and muting my VOD audio!
But how do I avoid it recording the music audio if I am both streaming and recording it? Cuz I just tested it on record and it was still getting music.
This by far was the best explanation and a game-changer for improving our Zoom meetings without having to monitor as an attendee in the very Zoom meeting. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Great to hear! And thanks for being a subscriber!
I tried. I got well into the weeds after watching this. Admit this covers the basics but falls apart for me the moment I have to bring in PC game audio on a 1-PC setup. Would be more useful if targeted specific Twitch/YT Gaming use cases and illustrated the entire audio configuration in OBS. 1. Game streams. 2. Avoid music in the broadcast. 3. Playing music in the broadcast, but leaving it out of the VOD track. Ultimately I went back to sending Spotify to a display audio output and running a TRS cable from the display into the AUX port of an Astro Mixamp. Far more simple configuration for what I do.
I've noticed you made a video for use case #3. I appreciate it, but it doesn't work for me in your configuration.
Glad you watched. Wish I could fit more into each video, but no one will click them if they’re more than 10 mins long (I know I wouldnt... im impatient when looking for answers), so to reach more people I have to keep it short. That means I have to structure the lesson to what will likely work for the majority of viewers who have simple setups.
Lifesaver!!! You ROCK!!! Spent 5 hours trying to solve this problem!!!
yw!
I believe you have hit right on the spot the problems I'm having. I'll check first but I'm quite confident you've solved the problems.
Awesome!
Thank you so much. I have gotten this half set up 3 times so far with other partial explanations but this was the most straightforward by far.
At last a clearly explained tutorial on how to set up virtual cables... Good job...
Bro, you're a legend and I love you for it. Sick guy!
Finally a tutorial that fixes the audio playback. Thx man
Thank you!! The best tutorial yet on audio splitting; so simple and straight forward :)
Você mostrou duas opções que eu nao tinha ideia que existiam e me ajudou muito a configurar o audio no OBS de forma bem simples... Muito obrigado!
I cannot explain how precious this video is, thank you
You are so kind
Is it possible to get an updated tutorial for this on Mac specifically. I am struggling to follow along due to the differences. I managed to get things installed but as for adding it in and tying it to the game I'm trying to split I am super stuck. Thanks~!
Thanks, I never thought anyone would make a tutorial on this. I thought this was some kind of reddit discussion type stuff but thanks for explaining it, I needed that.
Thank you very much! I really didn't want to go back to VM banana and the new OBS plugin didn't work for me. This is perfect and I got to repurpose the virtual cables I already had from before
Glad it helped!
This was the best video on these cables i had seen good job brotha
Thank you a lot, i took a whole morning doing this aaaa... You're a legend!
Thanks! This is exactly the help that I needed. This doesn't seem difficult but not knowing where to go to get everything setup is a real head knocker.
Glad it was helpful.
OBS with no BS has me dying hahahhaha man you should be paid for that line!!
Really good job. First class. Cheers, Callum.
OBS gives you this option now with Audio Application Capture as a source thank God anything that eliminates extra outside plugins is a yes from me 😎
Amazing solution! for years I couldn't solve it...
Great presentation, very clear and well paced for a beginner. Thank you I have subscribed to your channel and shared with my UK friends.
Thanks for sharing!
when you just jump right in and download along with him and suddenly everything goes quiet but the video is still playing LOL
LOL forgot that could happen... but it's a sign you're doing it all right! XD
Omg thank you
My son moved out after setting up vm potato and the v cables
Now i know how to use the cables in alexa that outputs to the desktop
Potato is so overwhelming though
Thanks so much - great instruction. I'm new to streaming and have felt like an idiot trying to understand all the parts. This is so helpful!!!
tysm!
Thanks for the tutorial, can you help advise me on how to bring sound in from Zoom to OB S using VAC
This video made clear and simple what I was struggling with setting all this up, many thanks 😊
Is there a way to still hear the music without it popping up in the VOD? It works for not showing up in the VOD, but I also can't hear the music.
ME TOO as anyone solved this?
Thank you for the tutorial! I set up the cable and it works but when I follow the steps fully (watched both videos) after setting it up it plays through both the cable and through desktop audio. I go into sound settings on windows to change the output but instead of going just through the cable it plays through both the cable and my desktop audio, so on stream it basically echo's. Is there a solution to this? Me and a friend both followed the steps and have the same issue. Any help would be appreciated!
Edit: So I just figured out that if I use my headset as output device it plays through both channels, If I use my speakers as an output device it does indeed play through the cable
why when I enable the vb cables, my sound stops working, and i cant even hear the tutorial anymore.....help
Pretty cool that audio sources can also be virtualized, mixed etc! I would like to do remote interviews with 3-4 people. Is there a way to record separately each participant's audio please? Thanks!
Hello. Thanks for the detailed explanation. May i know if i would like to :
1. stream games on OBS on headphone and at the same time having voice call on discord
2. chat in game while streaming on headphone
which cable should i get?
Great content, thank you for helping the OBS community. I am trying to setup OBS on my system for ther first time and would like to know if it is possible to use Virtual Cable and OBS to record separate say youtube videos simultaneously but separating the audio on each recording. Thanks
Can you do a video explaining how to stream on Rumble Studio? I can't enable my mic and its because it needs a virtual loopback cable. Can you experiment on that and show us how to do this properly?
Thanks for the easy explanation, I had a few issues but I think I've got it working. My only final issue is I dont seem to be able to hear my twitch notifications, any ideas?
ok i lied i found one other problem; my sound only works when obs is open as well
That's because you are monitoring the cable IN obs, so when it's closed, you won't hear the cable. To fix that, you should setup in Windows to "listen" to those cables, and then don't use monitoring in OBS. Then, regardless of whether OBS is open or not, you will be able to hear any audio being routed through those cables.
im having the same issue, i can't hear my twitch notifications
Ok I love this tutorial but how do we add the third and fourth audio cables to obs?
Thanks for the video. I'm a mac user, and I'm having some trouble with monitoring. Currently, I have Loopback audio installed (as well as Virtual Cables A & B) and I'm struggling to overcome the challenge of streaming music into zoom and being able to monitor the sound with hearing myself (delayed) in my headphones. I have desktop audio disabled as you suggested, and I have my Yeti Mic isolated as an independent input. OBS is set to monitor on Cable B and my Zoom microphone set on Cable B to capture everything coming out of OBS. I feel like I might be missing something easy. Hopefully someone understands what I am describing lol.
Great video, it definitely solved my audio issues I was having with my streaming. :D
Glad it helped!
This video was super helpful!! For the most part this works wonderfully,. I sadly have an issue when it comes to after I restart/relaunch certain programs. I have three different cables. 1) Games 2) Spotify 3) Discord/Chrome. Spotify and Chrome always work. Discord doesn't work at all no matter what cable it's on (so I usually get on the web version of discord if I need to capture that audio). Games will work if I remove and re-add it. It's a little tedious to have to do this constantly especially if I play more than one game in a stream so I'm hoping there's a fix. I've tried minor troubleshooting things like moving programs to another cable and installing it. I always end up needing to re-add it under "app volume and device preferences". Hopefully someone can help ;__;
Thanks! It makes my VM play audio!
Very cool
Simple and to the point. I got it setup. However have you used the Audio Monitor Plugin for OBS? I am getting double audio and cannot control my music so that I can hear or mute it at a different volume than what stream hears. It would be wonderful if you can do a video on that and how to set it up as other CZcams "guides" dont make sense to me. Thanks
I haven't used any audio monitoring "plugins," just the built-in monitoring options in the advanced audio properties menu.
This works like a charm but is there a way to avoid having to change the monitoring on windows (Listen Device) to either the Headphones or Speakers all the time? It's a drag.
This is SUCH A HELP! You got my sub, thank you thank you thank you!
Love your videos Aran! I have a setup with external Allen & Heath Qu-16 audio mixer coming via USB cable into OBS into Zoom and out onto web. I want to take the audio output of zoom (sounds from the web) and send them back to the mixer. The USB cable supports multiple simultaneous audio tracks in each direction. I need to send zoom audio back to the mixer on track 8. I figured I could use VB-Cable to do this, since even the free VC supports 8 tracks. I can't for the life of me figure out how to steer audio from an app (zoom, OBS, etc) into anything other than track 1 (or tracks 1+2 for stereo). I have all 5 VCs so if I could cross-connect tracks, that would work. I'm in a Mac environment.
See if my new video about audio tracks helps? czcams.com/video/e7FETfXXom0/video.html
@@aranhawaii Yes, I saw this video on the same day as the one you point to. IF OBS could steer audio out to 8 tracks I think I'd be fine. Since OBS "only" does 6 tracks, I still don't know how to get audio out on track 8. I wondered if there were some trick using VB Cables to "cross-wire" tracks from once cable into another, or something like that. My next workaround: I know channels 1-4 are claimed in my A&H Mixer. But maybe I can move what are currently on 5 or 6 so I can use it for the audio coming in from zoom - my original goal. Still - if there's a way to move audio from one track to another outside of a DAW, that'd be cool to know. Thanks!
Now how do you take these sources and play all of these sources through zoom or skype so your guest can hear them?
very very helpful! thanks!!
Great vid, I have been struggling with audio as of late, I’m going to see if this solution works. Thanks again!
Good luck man! Hit me up if you need a hand.
@@aranhawaii will do! Miss ya!
@@aranhawaii Ok, I was able to get it to work but it does not solve an issue that I am having with assigning each channel on my mixer to a channel within OBS using ASIO. I thought that I would be able to do that with this. It does however allow me to add another virtual cable\channel. Thanks again for the video!
@@HarlemKnite I dont have any experience with ASIO, but anywhere that you can select an Output for an audio source, you can always choose a Virtual cable.
Thank you for the video. My only issue and question is in order to listen to the music, I have to get rid of desktop audio from obs. Otherwise, when it plays through my earbuds, it plays on the desktop audio track as well, which defeats the entire purpose, so I ran my game through a separate cable, and used windows listen feature to listen to the game, but there is a delay in the audio on my end. I stream Escape from Tarkov, so audio is very important, and having this delay is rough. Any tips?
my problem too
can we get an updated version, something just won’t work for me
Ive been trying to troubleshoot this for hours now, whenever i switch the windows setting of an application to one of my audio cables, I lose the ability to hear it through my headphones. This makes sense to me but how do I make it so I can still here it. (Im wanting to be able to listen to music with chat and not just have chat be able to listen to it)
Thanks for this video, big thumb up. I have set my game output as VC and made it "listen" in my windows and routed it to my main sound device. So now I have 2 channels in my OBS: 1 is VC, which is enabled and use to record sound from the game, and 2nd channel is speakers (default sound device) which is playing both desktop sounds like youtube and the game. This channel is muted in OBS, So only the VC channel with the game is recorded. So everything works fine, but... when I turon on the game OBS VC channel doesn't "see" VC sound. In order to fix I need to switch in-game sound device from VC input to Speakers, then back to VC and then it works, but every time I need to do this when I open the game. Is there any way to fix it? I can also see that I have 2 sound devices in my PC: Speakers, and Digital Audio S/PDIF. Which one should I use and set as default?
Thank you for this video, I recorded an entire video last night (an hour long) only for none of my mic audio recorded.. so frustrating
This is really helpful. I think I have referenced is a couple times as I need to make audio changes.
Really...REALLY good video thank you so much.
Thank you so much for the Info. I have been using Virtual Cables but I kept crashing your video helped out so much thank you again
You're welcome!
The problem is that when you're done recording, and close OBS, you won't hear spotify anymore because it's no longer outputting to anything except VAC-C. Is there an easier way than doing this and undoing it every time I record?
This was great for seprating my audio soucres how ever i can't get the recording only record the virtual cable audio. it only wants to record the desktop audio.
My son likes to watch me play computer games sometimes. I don't have speakers so I use a Bluetooth gaming headset for audio. I'm looking for a solution to connect 2 Bluetooth headsets to my computer so my son can hear the game audio while I play. Would using a virtual audio cable (A + B) be a viable solution to accomplish this?
thank you! you explain it so clear and easy.
I appreciate it
thanks bro.. also I didn’t need to reboot for some reason so that’s kinda neat 😃 nice video !
Glad I could help
Thank you! I have a question about the desktop audio, if I disable the desktop audio how may I keep stream alerts and redeems since they are primarily on the desktop audio? thanks!
hey i have a question, for some reason the sofware only gives me one cable imput and one cable output, how do i get more?
donate to get more
This was so helpful. Thank you so so much!
You’re welcome
Thank you! I really did NOT want to use voicemeeter so this was great.
Glad I could help!
Question so I setup my whatnot stream on one cable and that’s fine but when I stream I can monitor any audio. Is there a way to be able to listen to everything except my microphone when streaming such as my music and desktop audio ?
Ok so this helped me understand OBS a little bit more but didn’t help my problem. I’m using a stream deck as a soundboard and voice changer but can’t get it to work properly. It will either play through my mic and soundboard option in Obs while even being muted or won’t play into my game. I have the trouble with my mic being muted and still echoing in game. I’ve been struggling for awhile now and am hoping you will be able to help, I’m new to this and can really use some help please and thank you
I got a little bit mixed up. So I have 2 cables, without selecting "Listen To This Device" at 8:18 I'm not able to hear Spotify in general (through Desktop Audio) and would only be able to hear it through Streamlabs OBS. Is it supposed to be like that or did I mix up a step? I'm looking to be able to hear music on desktop but also have it on stream without doubling the audio and being in vods which I watched your video on, super helpful! :D (Also I followed pretty much every step, having Desktop Audio devices set on cables C and D and under Monitoring device it's my earphones and it's still doubled. )
Make sure you didn't set yourself to "Listen" to the cable in Windows AND in OBS. Otherwise, the cable seems to be working as intended. You can always go into Windows sound settings and just change the Output target of Spotify depending on whether you're streaming or not... set it to the Cable or your speakers.
@@aranhawaii Thank you! I set the Audio Monitoring Device on streamlabs to Cable C and it didn't double now. I hope that's right haha
@@aranhawaii Hi again, sorry I'm still having a bit of trouble. I set Cable D as mainly games/discord cable and in the Apps volume and device prefs, I set Cable D in the top box in a game like Valorant and there's double sound (Only happens because I enabled Listen to this device on cable D), but before that, it couldn't detect voice comms of both in game and discord on Stream. Also, Cable C picks up game sounds for some reason when it's only meant to be for spotify. I also enabled that to Listen to this device as I wanted to listen to spotify outside of streamlabs obs.
Good stuff thank you
You bet
although this was helpful when i change the spotify output to cabel A i can no longer hear it out of my own headphones, is that how its supposed to work or is there something wrong with my default audio?
Did you find the answer to this?
Thank you so much this video helped a lot.
Glad it helped!
I installed VB Cable as administrator, and everything went well, but VB Cable A + B will not install even in administrator mode. I tried troubleshooting but still can't get it.
Is it possible to have one cable for music and one for just everything else? Or is it necessary to have a separate audio cable for each different audio track you want to capture? I tend to do a lot of different things on stream and it would be a mission to set up an audio cable for every game, browser, video etc when the only thing I want removed from the VOD is music
If you're streaming on Twitch and wanna remove the music from the VOD, try this: czcams.com/video/UrppylZ4MeY/video.html
Great video thanks for putting it out. Trying to get the two cable at VAC...do they have an American version for donate or does this convert to dollars? Hope not silly question. Thanks, Jeremy.
I can't remember, but I think if you use Paypal or something, Paypal converts your currency automatically.
I'm hoping you might be able to help me. I've watched 3 of your videos covering this and am having a problem. I can get the spot going through the Virtual C and have it separated on OBS, but When I set windows recording to "Listen to this device" it not only allows me to hear it in my headphones but it also sends it out through Desktop Audio in OBS . Is there a way to prevent spot being sent over Desktop Audio and I still be able to monitor it, or am I basically forced to have multiple virtual cables?
So, I have done this and it's working well, however, it's not streaming in stereo for my music production studetns over discord, it records perfectly fine and during playback it's fine as well but not during streaming
this video helped alot but is there a way to not hear double without getting rid of the desktop audio?
Hey man, I am looking to add EQ real-time in Ableton and then have it go into my Voice tracking software for my radio show. Is this possible?
Thanks for the video :) at 4:55 you tell us it is the AUDIO OUTPUT for the top box and you inserted the CABLE-C AUDIO ---->>> INPUT !!! confusing???
when i download from the website my folder does not look like yours and there is no way for me to open it up as admin and start the installation
i take the VC and run it through discord to carry over my mic settings from obs. However now it plays my alerts from obs into the discord instead of through my headphones. Is there any way to stop it from playing in discord and only through my headphones?
You sir are incredible. New Sub! 💪🏾😎🙏🏾❤️
Yay thank you so much
This awesome Aran. Thanks!
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Thank you good sir 👊
Welcome aboard!
Hi thanks for this I’m using obs studio with a streaming pc and Xbox (with elgato) I’ve followed what you said but I can’t put my elgato or sound alerts from stream labs and blerp to an audio cable how does stream hear these if I take away the desktop audio completely? As I have to swap desktop audio for virtual c and d.
I`m in Windows 10 and did everything like you said. The desktop channel opened and works fine but the problem I have is that my microphone channel is picking up the audio from my browser too. I`m also using a Motu M2 interface and I have tweaked everything I could from OBS and my mic channel is still picking up the browser. I don't know what else to do.
Can the OBS virtual audio cable show up as an output? Or is there a better solution? I'm trying to use OBS with Streamyard and it will only show the direct audio connections inside Streamyard and not the one running through OBS. I actually don't need any audio processing since I'm using my Rodecaster Pro to do that part but I need to add a sync delay of 250ms which is what I'm doing when I record directly in OBS.
I don’t have any experience with Streamyard.
hey great video! just had one isssue, everything works except for me not being able to hear twitch notifications like if someone subs or tts etc etc, i tried putting the obs to the audio output but it still doesn't work, any suggestions?
great video very helpful
Great video! But this is still so confusing to me. I want a guest on my stream to be able to hear my desktop audio as well as my mic. I'm using Twitch Guest Star, and they can hear and see me just fine. But when I play CZcams, for example, through a Browser source, they can't hear that. (But I hear it and it records in OBS output as well). I'm using Safford audio interface with a mic plugged into that.
Someone recommended i use this download for my guests to hear my CZcams audio, but I have no clue how to implement that for them via Twitch Guest Star once inset it up this way, or if it will even work. Thoughts? Or is there another way? Thank you!!
Im annoyed I have to install additional things to separate my audio 🤏 seems there is no way around that oof. Thanks for the video(s)
Hey there, I am wanting to use something along these lines in order to record 2 mic inputs through an external audio mixer (Steinberg UR44) along with my computer audio (Spotify) all to record as separate tracks in Adobe Audition. Would this be the right way to go about it? I presume I would download cables A, B, C and assign A to mic 1, B to Mic 2, and C to Computer speaker output which I could then add as discrete tracks in Adobe Audition? I'm so lost please help :P