Separate Game Audio, Discord, Music in OBS! (A Voicemeeter Tutorial For Beginners)
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2024
- Separate music and game audio in your Twitch stream! I'm really just writing stuff here for the UA-cam algorithm. Suck it UA-cam, I'm smarter than you.
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00:00 Intro
01:15 What is Voicemeeter?
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05:30 Basic Configuration
07:51 Separating Discord Audio
10:02 Separating Music Audio
12:13 More Stuff You Can Do
13:15 Outro
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Separating audio in OBS isn't hard. But you know what is hard? Making those god damn graphics. Good lord that took me too long. Never make me do that again.
Tell all your friends about me so I feel like it was worth my time even though we all know it wasn't.
It was worth it and this is now one of the best voicemeeter videos on UA-cam.
Paper Mario pls.
I just say "suck pp" on your stream and you ban me ;-;
@JJaz Yes, that is what happened.
@@nuttylmao daddy san dont ban me ;-;
Been using this setup for a few months and I just want to say, thank you so much for this! Been able to watch streams and listen to music while recording. Makes it all so much better haha, youre a legend!
I think the biggest irony in this is that what encouraged me to try this out was me wanting to be able to do stuff like watch youtube and listen to music while recording, but specifically I thought about it while watching one of your videos because you mentioned listening to music a couple times lmao
skyes im a big fan i know this was year ago but i still wanted to say this is most underrated comment
ah yes, "for windows only", those terrifying words that i never have to fear ever again thanks to building a computer
you had me in the first half ngl
I seriously appreciate the minute detail and breaking down of concepts at the "kindergarten" level because this helps me have a better understanding of how the system works overall.
Short and quick format is nice in a pinch, but if you're trying to tinker and learn, these long form tutorials are the best. You earned a sub my man!
I started using Voicemeter about a year ago now. This was by far the most useful tutorial of VM that I've used. I still come back to it a year later just to refresh myself whenever some setting messes up or I change my audio hardware around. Thanks for such a simple and somewhat entertaining tutorial video.
This can be so frustrating to set up to the point of tears, and legit your calm voice makes it easier to not have a fuckin' meltdown setting this shit up. Thanks for the help and just being cool
"You just got pranked sonnn"
Voicemeeter is incredibly intuitive once you understand it. I use banana on my gaming pc and potato on my streaming pc. Works like a charm.
I've been using potato for a while now, I can imagine going back to potato now, or even just Voicemeeter ahaha
I loved this moment
I am using potato on both pc's but i keep running into audio issues. Are u using Vban, or are you doing some other configuration?
@@flamestryketv7575 Hey. Yeah, I'm using vban to send a couple of signals to and from both PCs. It works pretty damn well.
Bruh when the “Just say yes, Gavin,” part happened, I got a little spooked, ngl. Lol.
same my names spelt Gavyn
You never fail to be nonchalantly real with your viewers and I appreciate it every single time. No I am not a scientist and that audio board would’ve made me lose my mind if I hadn’t come across your tutorial. Thank you!
Dude, 1 week ago i was actually looking for a tutorial about this and couldn't figure it out. Now it worked! THANK YOU!
Hello :D nuttys videos always help don’t they, glad he could help such an influential person!
Lekker bezig, Duncan! Ik was er ook al naar op zoek!
Yoo Djuncan... Kun je een Nederlandse tutorial maken? Ik snap er geen kut van hahaha My brains hurt
Duncan, hoe heb jij ervoor gezorgd dat je alerts wel nog te horen zijn op stream?
@@azaltr ik denk niet dat het hem ook maar iets interesseert xd
Some of the presented concepts were kinda mind-bending since I'm no Lucas Studio audio tech. But after a couple rewind-listens, I now get it! Thanks Nutty!
As a visual person, I am thankful. My friend kept explaining this to me over and over and I just could not understand. And then he called me a boomer and I got sad. This is why I am here.
NUTTY!!! THANK YOU!!!
This was EXACTLY what I needed. I had no idea how any of this kind of stuff worked. All I wanted was to make it so only I could hear my browser audio at times. I asked other people for help and they had me running around in circles, doing all kinds of things that didn't work, with all kinds of extra steps and bad instructions. But you explained it perfectly and simply and this works just like I needed it to. I appreciate it
This helped me so much! You cut the fluff out like most tutorials have and got straight to the point. Didn't go into too much details but enough so I knew what the heck I was playing around with. Thank you
I know this is kind of an old video but dude I have to tell you how much I appreciate this video. Just the whole tone of ‘hey I know this looks confusing - like wtf is all this, right?- but I’m gonna talk you through it’ was REALLY what I needed! So yeah, tysm for taking the time to make this for dummies like me 😅
This was one of the easiest tutorials I've found, and your humour is the cherry on top. Thank you!
I cant believe this actually works so smoothly, thank you!
I was scratching my head wondering how the heck do i stream on Twitch, but not have my discord chat audio be broadcasting on Twitch via OBS. With this, i can control it all so easily :)
I feel like they should release an "overly simplified" version of this software, where it lists your input devices on one side, output on the other side, and has a "visual graph" interface, like what Unity has for its shaders. Just drag a line from your input to your output, and the line between those 2 devices can have a right-click property box to control the effects. It's cleaner, and less daunting this way.
Honestly bro if you make that you could make some money
Yesss that’d be great
honestly this has been so confusing for me and im sure u have a great idea, but i could read this comment another 25 times and still have absolutely no idea what the hell u are talking about. lol. this is the second time ive took on this task of setting up voicemeeter and although im still a little lost. this video helped me understand alot more than any of the others
this tutorial is just insanely good, I don't think I've ever seen such a good tutorial for anything before, thank you so much man
Just a heads up, if anyone's headset sound sounds garbly when you choose WDM, just switch to MME instead or try a different driver. Its an easily fixable issue, that might not necessarily be super obvious.
thank you!
That helped, but every so often I still hear the cracking from my Spotify app. So, I decided to just route it to the VB input and add it as a separate audio channel for now until I can do more tweaking in the future.
Thanks was confused how to do so but realized you just click the hardware input thing
this video is a life saver, have watched it at least 7 dif occasions to fix audio on my pc and works like a charm every time i have issues.
This is definitely helpful! I've started streaming recently and, sometimes, I listen to music or audiobooks while gaming, but if I wanted to make a highlights reel of my Twitch recordings on UA-cam, I wouldn't want to get copyright-struck because of my choice of listening entertainment. I downloaded Voicemeeter today and I find it quite awesome-- my viewers can listen to the in-game music while I listen to ... 50 Shades, I guess.
Thanks for the video!
I've watched several videos on how to setup Voice meeter, it's the first one that is actually explaining what is happening besides "It's dark magic". Thanks a lot
oh my gods dude ive been trying to split my audio for four hours now and im way over my bed time but your video is the one that finally made the difference and helped me succeeding in splitting it! thank you so much!!!
This was honestly the easiest-to-follow tutorial I've ever seen, and the most useful thing for me who would have had NO idea how to do this if it weren't for you. Thank you!
6:25 You can right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar n press sound. Much easier way to get to sound settings
Having watched several voicemeter setup videos, I must say this is the ONLY one that made any sense.
I installed voicemeter 6months ago and uninstalled because I didn't know shit... Today i setup in less than 15m, even fudging around with virtual cables and shit.
Cheers Nutty
I have been scratching my head at separating my desktop audios sources for a while now. A freind recommended Voicemeeter but when I was tyring to figure it out with some written tutorial info and a video or two things weren't working for me at all. You have no only helped explain this in a helpful way, you even helped to point out other sources that I may or may not want to have sectioned out from my streaming and heard audio outputs. Thank you. I did have to go with a different output codec because something was cause the codec you picked to create a choppy quality in my sound, but switch to a different audio codec for the same output source did the trick for me. Thank you for taking the time to explain this in a helpful and thoughtful way. Even if it wasn't a "funny" video, it was extremely helpful.
Thank you! I've been using VM for a couple years now, and I had kinda managed to figure out a few things, but after watching your video and fiddling around with a couple things I finally ACTUALLY understand how it works, and was able to set everything up how I like!
Best tutorial ever brother, I appreciate the hard work done in this video hella under rated.
Didn't expect you here my man. If you ever play small tribes again, hmu. I can help you do a boss fight.
Crazy seeing you here
Hi bam
What’s up bam
This was WAY more helpful than the other three Voicemeeter tutorials I watched before this one. I especially appreciate that you pointed out that cables A, B, C, and D are all ADDITIONAL cables and that there is one that's totally free (one video made me think that the ABCD cables were all that existed).
Not only did i find this video super helpful but I personally enjoyed the way he explained all the information. Giving all the necessary info, very clearly might I add, in a much more casual and relaxed manner that I really don't see very often among many tutorial videos. I'm definitely checking out dudes' streams after I get this stuff working.
the previous tutorial took ten minutes to say "just make it separate" this helped a lot thanks
Thank you for this. I pretty much just started streaming (mostly prepping to do Extra Life this year) and was hoping there was a way to listen to other stuff while I work on games during that lengthy stream without it coming through the stream itself.
Yo. I've looked at so many other guides but none of them were able to clearly explain this, until I came across your video. Thanks so much for the tutorial. Love the way you explain things and love your humor as well. Keep it up man.
Love your content as a small streamer who's tryna come back after a super long one year break, I can tell you honestly I've been improving the quality of my stream and feel confident to stream once I start it up again! Thank you nutty ! Also thanks for the laughs too
This tutorial is by far the best tutorial and I wish I had this when I was first learning how to use this
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Fr though😂
Hi nutty! Great video. Would I be able to do this backwards? Like bring external audio into OBS and use this “box” to send that audio into Discord? Please let me know. Trying to do a radio show on discord with DJ’d music and it keeps dropping out and has no dynamics. I can DJ stream to Twitch without these issues, however, the person in charge doesn’t want to use Twitch and keep everything in Discord. Thanks in advance!
Thank you so much for breaking it down to beginner level! I love the diagrams. It makes it easier to understand (even if I already had an idea of how it works). This is exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed :D
literally any time my computer does stupid computer things and messes with my audio on an update i always come back to this video and this video only - thank you so much!!
Really awesome videos buddy!
The dark lord is here
I NEEDED THAT THANK YOU
Thanks man best tutorial out there straight to the point and much easier to understand. I was actually planning to use the voice meeter to split my mic audio and Spotify so my vods would have no music included in it and this really helped thanks so much!
thank you so much for this video out of everyone i watched. You were the clearest person ever and its been weeks of me trying to fix my audio and i can finally stream.
5:28 You can just skip that too. Use the Windows' settings for that by setting the default com' peripheral and default peripheral. You won't even have to use the Voicemeter GUI. Plus you won't have to change the settings in other app if you switch from Discord to Skype or some other com' software sice those settings are native to Windows and apply to every com' soft and normal soft
Yeah. I go through VAIO3 in windows and on the record I set it to listen to my speakers and everything works but when I use the gui (with the filters/EQ off) the sound is muddy and muffled. I never did figure out why the difference but I suspect the GUI is manipulating the sound somehow even with everything off.
It's easier this way thx (kenshin je t'aime continue frérot :D)
could you make a video on what you mean by this? im illiterate af so dont know what the difference is
Omfg I literally googled this 2 minutes ago! Finally!
Saved my sanity your bit at the beginning about trying other tutorials and having to give up on them was so accurate. Thanks!!
The best explination! I watched a dozen other videos and still didn't have a clue what was going on. The other videos just did the whole, click here and here and here business and I didn't learn a thing. Now I understand the fundamentals I can setup this on my own in the future without having to rewatch a speedrun tutorial! :)
9 seconds into the video and I already know it’s gonna be more helpful than any other VM tutorial I’ve seen. The man knows my struggle!
im doing this to avoid dmca strikes
Perfect! I remember watching this a few years ago when I started streaming WoW classic raiding and I needed a refresher.
Oh man, I tried to do this with so many other tutorials and none of them worked at all, but yours did, I love your content man
lmao "if you're using a mac you just got pranked son"
watching this as an audio engineer is kinda funny lol. You have the best explanation from a consumer standpoint though, it's hard to explain audio vsts and how they work to non-audiophiles (its like rocket science at first glance). Keep up the great work man, you're always inspiring me!
P.S. the music industry DOES in-fact still use tape machines, albeit digital emulations rather than hardware in 2021, but they've still been used on some of the biggest records of the last decade! ;)
yes for someone like me it truly did seem like rocket science at first. i watched at least 2 videos before this and was lost. he did a great job of really explaining things to somenone with absolutely no knowledge of this
Phenomenal tutorial my guy. Easily the best video for this. Was clear cut and really made it all make sense in straightforward way. I never comment on videos but I had to on this one. Helped a lot.
The best tutorial I've found on this BY FAR! So easy to follow and the visuals really helped a noob like me understand how it all works! Thank you!
Im a pro sound engineer and even I have never seen such complicated sound board or sound plug-in panel in my life. This is completely insane lmao
Wait.... That makes no sense lol. If you're an audio engineer then you've for sure been using DAW's which make voicemeeter seem simplistic in comparison
@@matics28 nah homie dis is way more complicatef
8:36 the emotions
Thank you so much for this video. I watched this video years ago when I first got VMB. I had uninstalled it but now I have a use for it again. There are SO many tutorials out there, BUT... When I decided to get VMB again, I was like "I need that video that I watched a few years ago to help me go step by step to set it up again" low and behold, you were 2 videos down. So, once again, I'd like to say THANK YOU for making a tutorial that is SO easy to follow along with!
I watch this tutorial at least twice a month. Thank you for putting out such an easy to follow tutorial c:
Hey guys,
I'm no Tech wizard but I did spend hours trying to get this right. My goal was to make more reactions with my friends' discord voices, my voice, and my video audio all on different frequencies.. I got stuck on the cable step around 11:00 in the vid, but the "Cable OUTPUT" option wasn't showing up.. To fix this try to find the "VBCABLE_Driver_Pack43" in ur download folder and run the "VBCable_Setup" as Administrator. After a computer reset the option to use the Cable Output should appear (Or at least it did for me)
How long did it take it for you to start installing? ive done the administrator thing, but nothing happens afterwards? xD im not sure if its actually downloading or not.
@@0x0kami9 it was quick probably like a couple seconds tbh and after installing try to reset ur computer
@@RepentD aah okioki, nothing happened when i installed it tho so idk man, but ty anyway :D.
@@0x0kami9 geez man I'm sorry I wish I could help more but my knowledge of technology is like 0 😂😂
@@RepentD no worries XD
I’ve been watching your videos for weeks now and of all the youtubers out there, you’re the most helpful and awesome. Great videos and your channel should’ve millions of subs.
Been having so much trouble with audio. This helped so much even a year later. Appreciate it man.
You are a god ! i'm a small streamer, and when I'm gaming even alone, I like having a UA-cam Video playing background, and when i'm streaming and there is silence moment and all it's pretty diffucult for me, so having a youtube video on the side gonna help me a lot, thank you so much for this turorial !
Literally comes out a day after I uninstalled it due to all the headaches it gave me.
Samee. My mic sucked after i installed this
@@edgyweeeb5334 What mic and did you get it working?
@@edgyweeeb5334 I ended up getting an elgato wave, don't need voicemeeter anymore. It's far more intuitive and a lot less issues.
Completely agreed. I tried for months to get it to work. It was awful.
@@messiahshow bm800 turns out its good without voice meter. Just use filters on obs
For those still coming back to this video VoiceMeter potato is free now so you get an extra audio to separate! Think it might be a bit more stable as well but not sure!
if only i read the comments before going through the entire tutorial!! ive already spent like 2hrs on this, but tomorrow when i have free time im definitely gonna download potato. Thank u for the useful information!
@@CODGOD303 Np!!
Dude, I know this is an old video, but helped so much. I have done this many times, but it is always sooooo long between when I actually have to go in and do it that I have to relearn everything. It was really helpful to have the diagram, which I know you hated, but it helped. Thanks.
Your diagram of how Voicemeeter works was a better explanation in two minutes compared to others I've seen in 20 minutes - thanks!
hi! love the tutorial! I downloaded the VB cable but it does not come up when I klick on the Hardware input, what should I do?
Make sure it was installed properly, an I know u posted this two months ago but make sure you restarted ur device, also u can go to device management to see if there is a problem with the driver for the virtual hardware
Have you found a solution to this issue? VB Cable won't show up in the drop down menu for me either.
There are a few things worth mentioning:
1. Windows notification sounds always play through the audio device you’ve set in the sound settings. So if you want to filter those out, you have to route the audio you want through another channel
2. Some games/programs ignore the Windows audio mixer. They either always play through whatever is set in their settings or worse always use the main Windows output device (which makes point 1. impossible). It’s really annoying to have everything working as you want to then run into one of these programs that then breaks everything you just did. So prepare for this in advance.
3. The VB audio cables have another nice feature. They all exist as a input and output device at the same time. What they do is they send everything you play to the output device to the input device (that's also why you can hook up the input device in Voicemeeter, but actually play audio to the output device). This gives you a simple way to play sounds from you computer to a program that only accepts input devices (it’s away to annoy everyone in Discord with your own music)
the ( ) at the end though
Honestly, I've watched 4 videos trying to split off my Spotify, and you're the first person who told me to download the VB cable. Works like a charm, much love!
Hey idk if you can help but idk how to activate the vb cable? After I download it I try to use it and it’s not showing up
@@thecraftycw I just installed it from nutty's download link in the description. Did you remember to restart your computer after you installed it? It won't show up if you don't.
OMG thank you so much you made everything that much easier to understand. I've spent hours just trying to figure out what everything mean and you seem to have thought that in minutes
When I try to play music, Spotify says “Spotify can’t play this right now, if you have the file on your computer you can import it.” How do I fix this?!
Although this is a 4 month old comment, this is happening because your virtual input is not selected properly. Make sure Its Voicemeter Input as the default device in "change system sounds".
When I set my Hardware out to my speakers with the WDM version, I get crackling/robotic sound. But it's fixed as soon as I use MME. Is there anyway to fix this, so I can use WDM?
me tooo how do i fixe that
1. Task Manager (run as admin)
2. Details
3. Right click audiodg.exe
4. Set priority -> high
5. Set affinity -> uncheck All Processor
6. Check on one of the cpus, I checked CPU 1.
You have to this every time your pc or laptop starts up. Hope this helps!
use mme instead of wdm
it is where you first choice input and uotput inside voicemeeter
Amazing love your videos. You have helped me so much with my stream and UA-cam channel. Usually I feel overwhelmed, but you definitely simplify it. Thank you for your time
Very good intro.
Your explaination got me right away.
Every Voicemeter Tutorial expects one to be a sound engineer
First you came for Kelly Clarkson, and now you've gotta throw Michelle Branch under the bus? Monster.
Idk why I laughed so hard suddenly after he finished the tutorial 😂
Thanks for the video
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Genius! That helped me amazingly and so quick, now I have my whole set up ready to go! Thank you for explaining it that is so easy to understand!
Thanks for this video. After watching back a few of my streams the people I play with their voice is low but the game I play the volume is so high and over powers them. I think this will do the trick!
When i choose my headset in A1 it causes an audio render error and makes me restart
I restarted and it worked fine. Set it to wdm specifically
@@ZachNohKap my issue was that when I restarted my computer It changed my default audio device back to what it was before so I had to swap it again, fixed the issue
Does this work for Streamlabs OB-
jk does it work for Streamlabs Alert sounds however.
I don't see why not :D
I don't "think" so because the alert sounds are a browser source which is picked up directly by OBS. There may be a way to tell obs to only play the sound to the stream, but not your headphones if that's what you are going for but I have not tried.
@@travgonz There's now a setting in OBS to separate audio for browser sources. It's native to OBS and does not require any additional software.
@@nuttylmao will there be a tutorial on how to do that?
I watched several videos on setting up Voicemeeter but this one is by far the best. Thanks!!!
omg dude. i learned so much from this video alone, that I feel like i have a PhD in voice meeter banana now. thank you for painting the picture for me so clearly and vividly.
When I set voicemeeter input as my default device, my sound gets super choppy. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?
@@keltbosman7176 Same I found no solution.
Just ditch the software and get a audio interface and if you can afford it a Behringer mixer, I have no issues now.
Hey I laughed all the jokes
I'm so happy I found this channel. 4 years of streaming, making Partner, and friggen everything else... I'm just now learning how to work my audio. lol
You really are a life saver, your video was 100% the exact thing i was looking for. You made my day, i followed all the steps you said and my stream is much more under my control now thanks to you
I don't see the master section on my voicemeeter, how can I fix this?
SAMEEE HERRREE its not showing the MASTER SECTION ughhhh i think we just got played by the creator of voicemeeter
;:/
Who else was following step by step and suddendly broken desktop audio at 5:52 ?.... :(
Watch on your phone. Had to do that after installing
i’ve been so confused by this whole voicemeeter thing, this tutorial is so great :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been scouring the net for a few days and almost gave up. Definitely a huge help!
NUTTY BUDDY holy shit dude, I've watched like 5 guides and this is the only one that actually helped me remove discord sounds from my stream audio. You are an absolute legend brother!
Dude, I love you! You made a great tutorial, the edit and these animations were cool and you are very fun and good in explaining. Now I can record my teams classes without worrying from background sound from my spotify.
I can finally record footage for youtube while being in call with my friends, thank you so much, this guide was so helpful!
By far the best basic explanation of how to get started with this software. Thank you
this was a great tutorial video- I used this when I was starting to learn how to create quality videos, and it helped me so much. Thanks so muhc nutty, I loved the humor and stuff that you put in here!
This was a fantastic tutorial and everything works flawlessly. Thanks nutty!
Great Video, tried this with another video ages ago and got so confused, Clear and concise. Cheers!
Just followed this tutorial, thank you so much, like seriously. I was figuring out how to do this for hours, and this tutorial was the one that did it. Thank you!