Ultimate Streamer's Guide: Mastering Voicemeeter Potato (Discord, OBS and StreamDeck)
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- This comprehensive tutorial teaches you how to master Voicemeeter, from zero knowledge to being an expert. Have you ever asked yourself how to manage and separate all your audio while live streaming on UA-cam, Twitch or Kick? - Then this guide is right for you.
Although this tutorial is demonstrating the use of Voicemeeter from a streamer's perspective, it's also perfect as a general viewer, to understand the fundamentals of Voicemeeter.
This Voicemeeter Tutorial covers the following topics:
- How to install Voicemeeter Potato (Banana)
- How to separate Game, Chat and Music Audio
- How to use additional Virtual Audio Cables
- How to improve your mic quality and general audio quality through eq, compression, gate and denoiser
- How to control Voicemeeter through Elgato StreamDeck
- How to use Macros (Macro buttons) to control Voicemeeter
- How to use Submixes for different gain levels for yourself and your audience
- How to use a seperate vod track on twitch (twitch vod track) to avoid DMCA
- How to use Voicemeeter alongside with Discord (and other voip applications)
- How to use Voicemeeter with OBS
After you finished this tutorial you are ready to elevate your stream audio to the next level!
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro, Download & Installation
00:01:20 Windows Audio Devices & Sample Rates
00:04:11 Voicemeeter Fundamentals
00:08:05 Audio Routing Fundamentals
00:12:27 Route Planning: Windows, Mic, Discord, Music & OBS
00:21:34 Windows Default Audio Devices
00:24:26 Discord Audio
00:25:41 OBS Audio & Twitch VOD Track
00:28:57 Channel Names in Voicemeeter
00:30:10 Voicemeeter Audio Routing
00:32:06 Headphone, Microphone (USB / XLR, ASIO) Setup
00:35:30 Setup Virtual Audio Cables
00:39:12 Route Audio from Games & Programs into Voicemeeter
00:41:36 Compressor / EQ / Gate / Denoiser / Limiter
00:47:51 Submixes & Monitoring
00:55:02 Macros & Hotkeys
01:08:20 Control Voicemeeter with a StreamDeck
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Downloads / Links:
VB Audio: vb-audio.com/
Voicemeeter Potato: vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/pota...
Virtual Audio Cable: vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm
Voicemeeter Potato Manual: vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/Voic...
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Music / Credits:
StreamBeats by Harris Heller
www.senpai.tv/streambeats/ - Ігри
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What is your favourite Voicemeeter feature?
Sub'd!!!
Hi, great video. I am trying to figure out one aspect, I have few USB microphones connected to laptop and I have one physical Audio Mixer in the hall. The voice output cable from laptop connected to physical mixer. I have voicemeeter Banana, when I choose the A1 output selecting "WDM headphone" so the sound go to mixer, there is no sound coming. When I choose MME headphone then the sound coming but with some sound feedback (echo type). Any idea how to fix this?
For those watching now, it looks like the voicemeter outputs are now individually labeled a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, b1, b2, b3 in system sound settings. Per the example shown in this video, the dedicated mic channel would now be B1, and the Mixed Mic/Audio for obs would be b2.
You are right, in new releases you can enable the VAIO Extension through Menu --> VAIO Extension License. This way you don't need to install additional cables and can use the shipped virtual interfaces directly as input and output on the physical channels in voicemeeter.
Saying thank you is not nearly enough; your video is hands down the best I've seen on UA-cam about potatoes. Your channel deserves to have at least 1 million subscribers, and I hope my subscription helps on that journey!
Thank you!
More like 1 BILLION This man has the greatest video on Voicemeeter Potato Fr!
Finally a detailed video and explanation, not some quick setup guide but actually explaining each tool and button! THANKS!
I though I had voicemeeter all figured out until the livestream I had last night. I had a core misunderstanding of how the routing of the virtual interfaces in VMP worked and most of other how to's I have found only scratched the surface on how it worked. Thank you for putting together such a detailed tutorial on how to set up and route audio through VMP. Liked and subscribed!
I am trying to feed as many separate audio channels into OBS to capture them as individual audio tracks. Does everything have to go through the virtual outputs or can I map those sources (assigned to various virtual cables) directly to separate sources in OBS? Thanks!
I'm a audiophile and this made everything 1000% much better. Love the video!
I had never seen a video with so much information, neither in quantity nor in quality of topics. I am very grateful to you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks a lot for deciphering this great but occult piece of software 🙏🙂
Best video on the subject and a MasterClass !!!
You are sensei in voicemeeter. ❤❤. Excellent job. Nobody has touched these areas.
This tutorial is amazing man, awesome work.
Best video about Voicemeeter Potato I've seen so far.
If you have a dedicated streaming PC you can send the audio to it over the network with the VBAN feature.
Both PC's need to have Voicemeeter installed of course.
Yes of course VBAN is a great feature. I don't have a dual pc setup or other need for it, but for sure that's the one topic I'm missing in my tutorial.
This is by far the detailed and easy to understand voicemeeter video ive seen. Yes it is a bit long, but i been using VM potato for almost a year and still confuses me. after this vod i totally understand. u earned a sub
This guide is just a hidden gem, so helpfull
Been using VM for years, wish i had this video years ago.
OMGosh! I've used Potato for years and I do not have access to most of the audio processing effects that you covered! I must have to download the latest version. This is amazing!
WOW, this is best Voicemeter guide I've come across. Thank you for this!!!
Fantastic guide. Thank you very much!
I've been trying to figure this out for like, a year. Thank you so much. You helped me understand this on a way different level.
Great to hear!
This is the best tutorial on YT, thank you Sir. You covered exactly everything what intermediate streamer needs!
Thank you!
I really think that this is super uuuuuuber important and should be endorsed by VA!
I have replayed the video several times to study and grasp the concepts. Your speaking pace, @NavyTheNerd, is excellent and allows listeners like me to comprehend the information.
Massive thank you dude!
Thank you for an excellent tutorial, I watched all the way through and learned a lot.
You good sir are a CHAMP! Thanks for this detailed video, nice slow and simple. Thank you very much.
This was really helpful! You covered everything I needed.
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative. Thanks man
thanks so much.. it really sorted alot of route issues which is so confusing for noobs like me ... respect the nerd out detalis aswell :)
Thanx a lot. Very well explained. Helped me a lot!
You are welcome!
Thanyou for this. Incredibly detailed
Glad it was helpful!
@@NavyTheNerd Helpful is an understatement, I was using VM completely wrong. Now I have it working perfectly thanks to your guide.
Thank you so much for your great and detail explanation. Looking forward for another cool contents. Please explain how to fix troubleshooting such as audio stuttering and delay
Eu usei meu voicemeeter errado a vida toda, cara você foi sensacional nas explicações, muito detalhista e bem especifico, abriu minha mente para este programa serei eternamente grato parabéns pelo conteúdo.
Hat off to you Sir. Your video explains in the simple way possible this complicated routing program. You have clarified so many questions I DIDN'T know I even HAD about this program. Thank you for your hard work putting this video together. Like M4v3r1ckRJ said below, your channel deserves a million subscribers. Again Thank you.
What an excellent tutorial. Thank you. I've been running Voicemeeter for sometime and not really understanding some of the advanced features and setup. This has been a great help. Do you have issues with distorted audio sometimes though? Have you managed to fix that problem?
Thanks a lot! Distorted and robotic audio typically gets fixed by using 48khz sample rate on all audio devices.
Thank you 🙏
This guide is perfect, best fucking guide on youtube you deserve so many more subs, keep doing what you're doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the greatest tutorial videos I've seen in a long time! Super easy to follow and understand. One thing that left me confused is the denoiser knob. I don't seem to have that option in my instance of VM Potato. Any reason that might be?
The only reason I could think of why you haven't got the denoiser knob in Potato is, that you aren't on the latest version of Voicemeeter Potato.
Great job Thanks
Hey, best guide I've seen. Congratulations, you explain it great and everything was understood. I wanted to ask you about EQ, compression and gate. You comment that there are good videos out there, but I haven't found anything interesting that works with Voicemeeter Potato and these options (mostly focused on the microphone). Do you have any video that you could recommend on this topic?
Thanks for your time, very nice work!
basically every tutorial should work. there is nothing special about using the voicemeeter compressor and eq. you just need to learn the basics of what the ratio, attack time and release time do and for the eq you need to understand what a eq does. In the end you need to identify what you want to change in your audio recordings. e.g. if you think your lacking presence then you need to boost higher frequencies a little, but in the end its testing, understanding and a lot of experience of how different frequencies influence sound.
goat of the year
The best ever clearly well explained in greater depth step by step video guide on voice meeter potato without any rush. I just had to subscribe and like, thanks for making this tutorial thumbs up to your video channel.
I went ahead and purchased VB-Audio A+B and want to know if possible to use VB-Audio A on the fourth hardware Input channel specifically for my Action! Mirrillis screen recording software and route discord audio through it as well so that when I'm screen recording my gameplay with friends I can also record our voices into the video?
I don't know that software but that should be possible.
Thanks so much for this guide! Issuing a lot of problem with my new HyperX Quadcast S : (
So, did it solve the problems you had with Voicemeeter?
@@NavyTheNerd almost done I think, thanks, I just need to finish a complete EQ in voicemeeter side, I combined with some VST in the OBS side too, but still have some background noise and my voice it's too shiny, but no videos of EQ in the voicemeeter side useful yet
@@NavyTheNerd I am missing a good and detailed EQ settings video on the voicemeeter side, mic of course, but also the rest Outputs like B1,B2, B3 etc anyway, thanks a lot for you works, I have same setup as you, the best in my opinion, thanks so much!
keep in mind, you always need to record the cleanest audio you can possibly get, because it's very hard to fix bad audio in post. especially if it needs to be done in real-time due to live streaming. so if you have a very noisy environment, you won't get rid of that noise without sacrificing audio quality. with a compressor you even will increase your noise floor. but if you need heavy noise removal you can try something like nvidia broadcast noise removal (if you have a nvidia gpu).
@@NavyTheNerd I think I have in my MSI gaming laptop, but not using nothing more than the encoder in the OBS. About compressor noise reduction in the OBS part, I have not success yet and disconnect it, just left the VST filter EQ in the OBS side. Notice better results applying in the Voicemeeter side, more good quality, I copy your settings, but adjust a few as have a condensed mic HyperX Quadcast S, a bad mic by the way 😔, but in your video the EQ part only show the A channel, not sure if need to EQ the B too, but think in the correct path using the Voicemeeter in this case using this microphone
This is one of the best VM videos I've seen. I was using Potato so wrong for the last few years. Thank you!
Now, quick question :
I see HARDWARE input channels you have : COMP - GATE - DENOISER .. and also 2 PRG buttons and have access to the feature of the compressor for example by right clicking on it.
I don't have any of those in Potato. Is it because you're using ASIO and i'm using WDM ?
Thanks again!
*UPDATE* : Even though I had the latest version for VMP .. it seems the GUI wasn't showing the options / features I stated above.
Re-installed VMP .. rebooted .. and voila!
Hope this helps someone else!
glad you could fix the problem
Great Video!
What telestration app are you using to draw on the screen?
It’s just a screenshot inside of ms whiteboard
Hey @NavyTheNerd How do you get the levels on the buttons like you have them @1:12:25 of the video? Thanks in advance, Great video btw!
You can use field "Title Value" from the Advanced Toggle for that. Just set that to the parameter you wanna query from voicemeeter and it will be used as the button title, e.g. "strip[0].gain" will display the current gain as the title.
@@NavyTheNerd Thankyou
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Thank you very much for your help, your video has been very helpful to me but I think I still have a question: why do certain applications like Discord appear repeatedly in the system, music and communications (virtual inputs) section? I can't catch it.
I would also like to understand how to connect this configuration to Adobe Audition to use it in multitrack mode and have my microphone and the Discord audio (the audio of my mates) separately (different tracks) Thanks in advance
since most daws don't allow you to connect more than one audio device i recommend you to use a virtual asio device with multiple channels where you can route different applications to different audio channels of the same asio device. for this purpose i recommend you to check out my vb audio matrix video
I have setup everything right and works perffect but whenn i share screen to my friends if i do not disable mi cable a and cable b (cable a send discord to my obs cable b send music to stream) my friends listen double time their voice or music AND that only when i share screen
If you have problems with the setup you could also join the VB-Audio Discord. There are many great people which can help you resolve your problems.
Just noticed you have the EQ button on every channel, I don’t have this in banana is this exclusive to potato?
Yes, you only have that option in Potato. The same with the fine tuning for the Gate and Compressor, you only get those advanced options with Potato.
@@NavyTheNerd thank you that makes sense, do you think the tuning for gate is worth the time of setting it all up or is the gains minimal
@@va02gaming absolutely. It's not that complicated, once you understand how a gate and compressor works, but the difference it can make to manually dial in the right threshold, attack, hold and release time is huge.
@@NavyTheNerd thank you, I know you cover it in this video but do you have or could you do a extensive video on it sometime when and if you get spare time It would honestly be awesome 🙏 I am kind of new to audio/microphone stuff so your video is really helpful again thank you
@@va02gaming I'm by no means an expert in audio processing, but I will see if I can do a follow up video, to cover audio processing especially within Voicemeeter.
I have an issue that my discord sound goes 2x into OBS both audio tracks record discord sound? anyone know how to fix this
That is hard to solve from just your descirption. But i suggest joining the VB-Audio Discord, there are many people that can help you solve your problems and you are able to share screenshots of your setup.
i suggest you to using condenser mic..
My VM-streamer is only showing A1 for me. for my sliders. Does not show any other output.
they only show up if you give them a custom name in voicemeeter
@@NavyTheNerd I would double check when I get home, pretty confident I assigned all them a custom name though. Will provide imgur links. Thank you for the response.
Clicks on Audio setup guide. Can't hear the guy in the video. So bassy it's hard to understand in some parts. Wonder if this is the guy to be listening to.
Actually the guide itself is great. I needed a refresher after being away from content creation for almost a year and the 48khz tip was an instant "ohhhh of course!" moment.
Thanks for the feedback. I will look into dialing back bass in further releases.