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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2024
- Hey everyone this is a video on sonar and what you can do as a streamer and content creator. Basically this is a very good app for editing audio to the full extent. I appreciate everyones support and the time yall take to watch my channel! Much love to you all!
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I can't find anything regarding Sonar vs Nahimic, even their own site doesn't explain it at all. How do they compare and which one is more viable for everyday use?
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got the Nova7 wrls and loving the headsets with the Sonar combined, but i have hard time figuring out a) Sometimes when i share screen in discord other peoples voices watching the steam speaking in the discord channel makes their audio input echo in their headsets is it the chat mix? i am not sure, i tried muting it but they still hear themselves b) the spatial audio is kinda bad, i cant figure out a correct way to set it up, i only nowdays use EQ with different settings for each game, idk why, but it seems my older corsair which costed a fraction sounded decently with spatial audio windows drivers. I cant still understand if you really need it for fps games etc, i think if the games supports natively HRTF u dont rly need to have spatial (either sonar/windows/atmos/dts etcetc) enabled right?
I have no sound when using this app, is it compulsory to have a steel series headset?
how can i stop my mic from clipping on discord using steelseries gg
Hi! Which version is this steelseries gg app? Cuz i can't use the newest version, it's buggy on my pc
I watch a lot of UA-cam videos. Since I moved Edge to Media, everything is routed through the device mentioned there. What is the quickest way to switch between headset and loudspeakers (Arena 7 in my case).
This is a really good question. I even thought about this as well. It’s one reason i prefer VoiceMeeter over Sonar. But, ideally you can set up a macro or maybe even download the stream deck mobile app and set up a key press to swap audio devices. Not the greatest but could work. Otherwise, going into sonar and manually clicking your speakers instead of your headphones works too. There’s also a program called Audio Router on GitHub. You can duplicate and or route programs to audio devices. It’s a free app that will let you basically make a program play to multiple audio devices.
Could you make a video on other functions on of GG, such as non steamer mode?
Hello @Eh Chad , I see that you are using Voicemeeter aswell as Sonar. Which one is set to default? Since Sonar is always "nagging" about being the deafult one. Is there any special routing / setup done for Discord with Sonar that you can provide knowledge on? My friend keeps saying my micsound keeps cutting out (but he is the only one complaining).
Recently, I switched fully over to sonar. But in the video I had Sonar set as default and ran all my audio sources to Voicemeeter. I had my microphone and Headphones linked to Voicemeeter. All the sonar audio sliders had been set to my Voicemeeter input. I don't use Voicemeeter anymore. Although I do miss the more features and range of stuff I could do with it. Hopefully this helped ya.
When i listen to the video, its crackling. Any idea how to fix this?
Anyone try using meta app for oculus and this app? Meta keeps disabling the app so I'll have no sound at all even when oculus isn't connected.
when using the gaming driver i have no sound. this annoys me. any soultiuons?
so you should have them all separate for vod, but you should mix everything in stream mix just to have it done in one go as universal standard. a base line in my opinion is game: 7% chat 40% media 10% aux off mic 30% i think its better to have a sep app dedicated to music just for stream, ie could just be spotify or ytmusic, and then your normal music that you wanna hear only on aux. with it prioritizing voices over everything else, but then you add the sep devices afterwards for recording and have them all on sep channels, so you can sep and rebalance for youtube later
Yeah, exactly I just prefer to have separated to begin with and have them on their own tracks. When recording i do use a different profile thats set up strictly for recording. I have my stream scene collection and my recording scene collection. Ive always separated my tracks by default. Just personal preference. But to be simplistic as possible yeah you could use stream mix and then music separate. Having them separate just makes it easier to edit in the end.
Can you operate sonar with streamdeck+?
are there plugins for this?
So far I haven't looked too much into it. Last time I had checked there wasn't. If there is a plugin I will try to make a video on that. Also, thinking of making an updated video to sonar.
Actually, there is a way to use it with Sonar Shortcuts. It's sort of a work around but will give you some functionality.
@@ehchad Yes, I know, but then the audio levels and the volume percentages are missing. So you're basically doing everything blind.
hmm interesting. Yeah, So far it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of functionality yet. With VoiceMeeter there's a ton of plugins and functionality. I used to use that as my main audio interface. Works the same just a tad more confusing if you've never used it before.
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hi , and the alerts in wath channels enters the sound ?
Not quite sure what you're asking. But, by default when adding alerts they use a "Browser" source in OBS. By default they come with their own audio control inside the "Audio Mixer" inside OBS. Make sure you have that set to whatever track your stream or recording is set to so that way your viewers can hear the alerts. Hopefully this cleared up some issues and helped a little.
What if obs doesnt want to capture my game/desktop audio.
By following Sonars recommendations by setting the default audio devices you shouldn't have an issue. Also make sure in Sonar "Streamer Mode" is ticked. All main desktop and default program audio will route through "SteelSeries Sonar - Gaming" audio device. That will be your default audio device for any new or program/audio that hasn't been deliberately set to a different audio device.
@@ehchad you’re a life saver omg
weird for me when I added my browser and discord it does not show on the apps like yours did..
Are you referring to the apps below the scroller for each audio slider? If so thats just a little broken. Sometimes it shows and sometimes it wont. Thats why i use volume mixer and set the programs directly to the audio device/slider i want. Just test by listening to the audio. Also, i believe why you’re not seeing your programs is bc they need to be actively playing sound for sonar to register it basically.
How do you delete the apps in the mixer at the bottom. Sometimes the apps just randomly show up in game, chat, media etc. I try to drag and drop the app but nothing works. Is there no way to get rid of them?
Any program that has audio will show up on the mixer. If it is set to default then it will show in the game section. If it had communication like lets say voice chat it may show up in chat but also could be game. You have to manually set the program to which output you want it to. Unfortunately, the mixer will show those programs. I honestly dont worry about the programs at the bottom of the mixer. I manually set the apps or programs to what audio cable in the windows default volume mixer settings
@@ehchad ok thank you. I think you explained this in the video but I was still confused. I get it now. I was going crazy trying to get rid of the app to avail. lol thanks!