You are amazing! I appreciate how you didn't waste any time, you made things clear, you helped me to understand what each setting means, and you put it in writing. Thank you!
Dude you are the freaking BEST. Every time I'd try to record a game, my voice would be drowned out whenever there was a spike in in-game audio. But this fixed it completely. Thanks legend!
Thank you so much! I didn't realise that's what audio ducking is (or how to set it up properly) and spent so long trying to manually balance the levels. This was super clear and straightforward to put into practice, will help a lot moving forward!
This is PERFECT. I was made aware of what side-chain compression was from a basics standpoint, but learning _what_ the sliders did was the piece I needed.
I just made my first let’s play for a game I was SO excited for, and I thought I had the audio all figured out and sounding good, and when I played it back..l I was kinda heartbroken lol. It felt like all that time was wasted, but now I can at least make future episodes/lets plays right. Thank you! 😊
This was one that didn't try to waste my time, thank you for that. also for me I had to put the threshold down to -50, and the ratio to 25:1. Also in settings > audio > advanced there was a thing I checked called enable ducking and I set my mike there as well. This seems to work quite well when in recording.
Love the no BS right to the point dude gave you a follow for not wasting time yapping about some pointless garbage that has nothing to do with the reason I was brought here!
This video is exactly what I needed. Problem: I want to do a dj stream and occasionally speak to the audience on stream. But typically doing this you would put a mic on your dj mixer and use the talk over feature. The problem with this is if you want to record a dj set, your voice ruins the mix. So I plugged a USB mic into my setup so I could talk at the OBS point and after the mixer output. So my recording is still pure music only. I was having issues with my mic and music blending awkwardly when speaking. Solution: Your video. I did this last night and it worked flawlessly with my Elgato mic as the source of the Ducking and applied the filter to my iRig audio interface.
Thanks Buddy! I've learned how to do it on Vegas, but to do like that directly in OBS is going to be a time-saver! And when i comeback doing streams, it will improve overall quality! Thank you so much!
Glad to help out! Streaming and editing videos takes so much time and work, anything that makes us more efficient and improves quality cannot be a bad thing… Good luck when you get back to streaming, Cheers!
I do not have ‘music’ or ‘game’ in my audio mixer. I have desktop audio, desktop audio 2, mic/aux.. etc. I apologize, I am just dipping my toes in trying to figure out how to game and record. I just got my first computer and learning how to game. Your video helped me navigate through OBS and make it less intimidating, but I’m stuck on what I should change if I don’t have the game and music in my audio mixer? Can you help?
There are a number of ways to add sources to the OBS audio mixer. One way for Music is to install VLC media player on your computer and then add a VLC Video source in the OBS mixer. Don't worry about it saying "video source." When you setup your source, add the music files you want to play and they will automatically loop while the source is active in OBS. Remember to use only royalty free music in videos and streams... For a game audio source your will need either a device that supports separate game audio such as Elgato's Wave or you can use software such as Steele Series Sonar, the OBS Application Audio Capture, or similar to allow you to route game audio separately from other desktop audio. Setup is a bit more complicated on these and is different with each method...plenty of setup videos are available though... Good Luck with your first computer!
And i always had issues and i never knew this now i did the same settings! And lo and behold something to get it all down just by tweaking some settings. So now people can hear my voice during the stream.
I have a mic source and a ASIO source for Ableton Live so I can hear/record the sound coming from it. I added the compressor and settings to the ASIO source and selected the mic/aux from the dropdown list, but it doesn't do anything.
I suppose it doesn't work for cameras with in-built mics since you can't select "mic" source but only "camera" source? UPD: Just need to choose mic as ducking source in Desktop Audio.
Hey I’m not sure what the problem is, but I’m having trouble getting the audio ducking function to work. I followed all the steps, but when I listen back to my recordings the game audio is too loud. Do you know what the problem could be?
Hi Sir . Thank you so much for this video.. most of your videos were really useful to me . And I've used it I'm my obs and it works so good and I watches ur captions auto translation captions video as well and that too worked very well . I want to suggest ur channel for others for any topics , I feel your channel name is difficult to say it , so i kindly suggest you to change your channel name which can be readable and simple and also can be catchy . May be u can post it in your community and ask for a suggestion for channel name channel or you can do it . I see that your one of the valuable content creator and if your channel name is readable and simple . U will be able to reach more people and they will remember u with the channel name 😇. Thank you 🙂
When I use the compressor, the ducking comes delayed. So it takes 2 seconds until the music gets quiet and when I speak the music gets louder again. So its not synchronous. Do you know something about that problem?
I want to make this setup but with two microphones for interviews. If person 1 talks I would like to duck the microphone of person 2 so that you don't hear an echo, and same for when person 2 speaks. Would that also be possible?
thanks this is helping but would you happen to have a fix for obs stream having really high base but the game sounds normal in my headphones its just the stream that has high base
i did exactly u said sir but my mic audio doesnt record my voice but desktop audio goes down which is good.i have set mic/aux on track 1 and desktop audio on track 2 to record both seperate does that also affects audio ducking . i also have same settings as you have i am using only desktop audio for game music and mic/aux for my voice
Windows will not playback both tracks 1 and 2, but they should both be there when you load the recording into your video editing program. The tracks you assign sources to does not impact ducking. If both audio tracks 1 and 2 do not show up in your video editor, make sure OBS “Advanced Audio Properties” shows both sources as “Monitor and Output” and that “Recording” in the “Output” tab section in the “Settings” menu has the boxes for tracks 1 and 2 checked. Hope this helps out!
Yeah, production on these early videos was pretty basic… I’d like to think my newer content takes those things into consideration (at least a bit better). Hope the video helped out. Cheers!
How does this work for a dual PC set-up? All of my gaming pc's audio (game + talk) goes to the HDMI-in of my streaming PC, as a single audio stream. How can I seperate/isolate game from voice and apply audio ducking then?
To duck the audio coming through HDMI add the OBS compressor filter to the HDMI source and then select the microphone source you are using on the OBS PC as your ducking source in the filter. Hope this helps out!
Hello, thanks for the video! I followed you step by step and it does look like my computer sound is ducking but I can't hear it ducking from my speakers. Am I missing something? Thank you
OBS will duck the computer sound sent to OBS outputs (monitor, streaming, recordings), but computer sound playing directly on your speakers will not be affected. You could monitor your OBS audio through your speakers, but then you would then have latency (OBS creates a delay when rendering video and audio).
Hello! Thank you for the video! I have a question, I have music playing in the background (on desktop) and i wanted to the music to lower when sound alerts come on the stream so I followed the steps in OBS like you did in ur video. I am able to see the volume changing in the audio mixer but not hear the changes in my headphones? is there a way to hear it in my headphones also? if that makes sense :)
Hello! OBS is controlling the audio mix (including music) going to the stream however the music you are listening to on your headphones is playing directly from your desktop app. You could instead monitor the audio from OBS through your headphones, but latency will become a problem, especially when monitoring your own voice as OBS introduced considerable latency. It is possible to get around this by routing all of your audio through a DAW and then bringing the mix into OBS through loopback. There would be considerably more setup required and this will also require more CPU resources which could be an issue depending on how/what video you are encoding in OBS as well as what other apps you need to have running. It is also possible to accomplish this with hardware depending on how much IO your audio interface has. Let me know if you are interested in either of these options and I will think about making a video.
@@askdrtk thank you for responding. I am very new to this, it sounds complex tho? perhaps for now i can just try to adjust the volume coming in my headphones differently than the output in obs. Thanks again!
Glad to help out! It will work on both recordings and streams. The most common reason for compressor ducking not reducing levels in when your microphone level is not reaching the threshold value setup in the compression filter (although it can be as simple as not having selected the correct microphone in the sidechain/ducking source option). Try reducing the threshold until you start to hear the music/game audio being reduced in your recordings. Once you are hearing the reduction, you can adjust the ratio if you prefer more or less reduction to be applied.
I'm always glad for short and no-BS approach tutorials, this is definitely going to my how-to list. Thank you!
You are amazing! I appreciate how you didn't waste any time, you made things clear, you helped me to understand what each setting means, and you put it in writing. Thank you!
Thanks, glad I could help out!
Damm thats "to the point" tutorial...no bs talk... only work👌👌
Fabulous video. Direct, to the point, and showed me something I never knew I could do with OBS. Fantastic job mate.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Dude you are the freaking BEST. Every time I'd try to record a game, my voice would be drowned out whenever there was a spike in in-game audio. But this fixed it completely. Thanks legend!
Fantastic! Glad I could help out!
Thank you so much! I didn't realise that's what audio ducking is (or how to set it up properly) and spent so long trying to manually balance the levels. This was super clear and straightforward to put into practice, will help a lot moving forward!
Short videos like these help me get so much done because I have the attention span of a plastic spork thank you
LOL…Glad I could help out!
Cant get this to work at all :/ has no effect
This is PERFECT. I was made aware of what side-chain compression was from a basics standpoint, but learning _what_ the sliders did was the piece I needed.
Great to hear, glad I could help out. Cheers!
Thank you! I needed exactly this video.
I'm glad it helped out!
I always give a like to people like you who provide quick and helpful tutorials, thank you for the work you do!
Thanks, I’m glad to help where I can!
I just made my first let’s play for a game I was SO excited for, and I thought I had the audio all figured out and sounding good, and when I played it back..l I was kinda heartbroken lol.
It felt like all that time was wasted, but now I can at least make future episodes/lets plays right.
Thank you! 😊
This was one that didn't try to waste my time, thank you for that.
also for me I had to put the threshold down to -50, and the ratio to 25:1. Also in settings > audio > advanced there was a thing I checked called enable ducking and I set my mike there as well. This seems to work quite well when in recording.
Glad to hear things are working well and thanks for sharing your settings.
😀Great vid you nailed it 3mins. now I need to figure out the settings best for me. THXs
Thanks and I'm glad to help out!👍
appreciate the short and to the point explanation. This really helped me out
Love the no BS right to the point dude gave you a follow for not wasting time yapping about some pointless garbage that has nothing to do with the reason I was brought here!
Thank you for this tutorial. You are awesome. Short, to the point and very informative. Liked and subbed!
This video is exactly what I needed. Problem: I want to do a dj stream and occasionally speak to the audience on stream. But typically doing this you would put a mic on your dj mixer and use the talk over feature. The problem with this is if you want to record a dj set, your voice ruins the mix. So I plugged a USB mic into my setup so I could talk at the OBS point and after the mixer output. So my recording is still pure music only. I was having issues with my mic and music blending awkwardly when speaking.
Solution: Your video. I did this last night and it worked flawlessly with my Elgato mic as the source of the Ducking and applied the filter to my iRig audio interface.
That’s great to hear and I’m glad everything worked out well…Cheers!
Thank you so much for the video. The best.
You dropped this, king.
Nice one Ask had to tweak the settings on my setup and your vid worked perfectly, thanks again
Great to hear...I'm glad I could help out! Cheers!
You can even copy and paste the filters to make it simpler if you have alot of audio sources you wanna duck to make it quicker and easier
Simple and straight to the point, legend! 😃🤙
Thanks, I'm glad to help out!😄
Thanks Buddy! I've learned how to do it on Vegas, but to do like that directly in OBS is going to be a time-saver! And when i comeback doing streams, it will improve overall quality!
Thank you so much!
Glad to help out! Streaming and editing videos takes so much time and work, anything that makes us more efficient and improves quality cannot be a bad thing… Good luck when you get back to streaming, Cheers!
great video. This is about the only video I've seen on yt that has 0 dislikes. it was short, sweet, and to the point! gg!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
i dont even got a list but your video start with pro setup
Great video and in 120 seconds too!
Great Tip mate!
My pleasure! Easy to set up and works really well.
sir you have "legendary wizard" vibe that people go to for advice, thanks for making this video! very simple and informative!
Glad to help out where I can! Cheers!
thanks for this tutorial, thanks to you I nailed it and hopefully very soon just upgraded my livestream.
Great vid. cheers
That's great to hear! Glad I could help out!
Great! Never knew OBS had this. So useful.
Thanks a lot! I had audio issues for so long but this helped me out super good!
Great to hear, glad I could help out!
Perfection describes this tutorial. 👽💜
Glad to help out!
Short and informative... Subbed!
Best video. Straight to the point, easy to follow. Thank you!
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. Marvelous video! I am starting on youtube and this helped me BIG TIME. Thank you.
Glad I could help out and best of luck with your channel!
Thank you.. I think I misunderstood the threshold part at first! Cause the ducking is not working (my mic input is too low lol)
All good…I’m glad you have things working!
Excellent video!
Fast, and very simple tutorial!
Thank you so very much.
Great to hear, I’m glad it helped out! Cheers!
My man, seek and you shall find...the tube always provides. thanks
All good, I hear you on the tube...
good video, definitely underrated
Much appreciated - hope it helped out!
I do not have ‘music’ or ‘game’ in my audio mixer. I have desktop audio, desktop audio 2, mic/aux.. etc.
I apologize, I am just dipping my toes in trying to figure out how to game and record. I just got my first computer and learning how to game. Your video helped me navigate through OBS and make it less intimidating, but I’m stuck on what I should change if I don’t have the game and music in my audio mixer? Can you help?
There are a number of ways to add sources to the OBS audio mixer.
One way for Music is to install VLC media player on your computer and then add a VLC Video source in the OBS mixer. Don't worry about it saying "video source." When you setup your source, add the music files you want to play and they will automatically loop while the source is active in OBS. Remember to use only royalty free music in videos and streams...
For a game audio source your will need either a device that supports separate game audio such as Elgato's Wave or you can use software such as Steele Series Sonar, the OBS Application Audio Capture, or similar to allow you to route game audio separately from other desktop audio. Setup is a bit more complicated on these and is different with each method...plenty of setup videos are available though... Good Luck with your first computer!
Thank you so much. Super helpful and quick. Legend!
Thanks, glad to help out!
Subscribed. Thank you for this. Super easy to follow.
Thanks! Glad to help out!
Thanks man! Helped a lot.
Thank you! I hope it works my audio it's all weird, it changes so much depending on the game.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you, I had no idea what I was doing
Glad to help out!
This video was very helpful. Thank you.
Great to hear, I'm glad I could help out!
thank you sir this is what ive been search before finally i got it😂😂
Thanks Dr. TK!!
The goat
And i always had issues and i never knew this now i did the same settings! And lo and behold something to get it all down just by tweaking some settings. So now people can hear my voice during the stream.
Glad to hear you you were able to get your stream audio setup!
Thanks, it helped!
Very cool. Thanks!
I have a mic source and a ASIO source for Ableton Live so I can hear/record the sound coming from it. I added the compressor and settings to the ASIO source and selected the mic/aux from the dropdown list, but it doesn't do anything.
How can I turn the game up a bit? than you have? but keep the microphone sound the same.
Legend, thank you!
This just made my voice audio get quite when I was speaking and my game level stayed the same
Right to the point! nice!
I suppose it doesn't work for cameras with in-built mics since you can't select "mic" source but only "camera" source?
UPD: Just need to choose mic as ducking source in Desktop Audio.
Hey I’m not sure what the problem is, but I’m having trouble getting the audio ducking function to work. I followed all the steps, but when I listen back to my recordings the game audio is too loud. Do you know what the problem could be?
Your mic input is too low so it isn't working
huh to me it happens naturally i dont have the filter on and yet it's still do it, but ill use your settings and test them out, thank u so much.
Glad to help out!
amazing and simple, thank you
Much appreciated, glad to help out!
Awesome video
So helpful Thank you!
Hi Sir . Thank you so much for this video.. most of your videos were really useful to me . And I've used it I'm my obs and it works so good and I watches ur captions auto translation captions video as well and that too worked very well . I want to suggest ur channel for others for any topics , I feel your channel name is difficult to say it , so i kindly suggest you to change your channel name which can be readable and simple and also can be catchy . May be u can post it in your community and ask for a suggestion for channel name channel or you can do it . I see that your one of the valuable content creator and if your channel name is readable and simple . U will be able to reach more people and they will remember u with the channel name 😇. Thank you 🙂
Hi and Thanks! I have been thinking about the name…Great idea on the community post! 😀
@@askdrtk thank you sir for finding the time to reply on my comment . And Also thank you for taking my suggestion as a Consideration . 😍😍😍
You are legendary, thank you!
Glad to help out, Cheers!
When I use the compressor, the ducking comes delayed. So it takes 2 seconds until the music gets quiet and when I speak the music gets louder again. So its not synchronous. Do you know something about that problem?
Thanks! You're AMAZING lol
I want to make this setup but with two microphones for interviews. If person 1 talks I would like to duck the microphone of person 2 so that you don't hear an echo, and same for when person 2 speaks. Would that also be possible?
TYSM for helping !
Damn man thanks for this
didnt work
So for the ratio settings The higher the number the more severe the audio gets reduced?
Do i understand that right?
thanks this is helping but would you happen to have a fix for obs stream having really high base but the game sounds normal in my headphones its just the stream that has high base
clips.twitch.tv/NastyPuzzledParrotOneHand-Xw3GDc0QQ8YcKQFo
clip of my audio currently
Very useful video, thank you :)
Thanks! Glad I could help out!
Can i use wavelink? Since all audio is through one audio source in obs?
i did exactly u said sir but my mic audio doesnt record my voice but desktop audio goes down which is good.i have set mic/aux on track 1 and desktop audio on track 2 to record both seperate does that also affects audio ducking . i also have same settings as you have i am using only desktop audio for game music and mic/aux for my voice
Windows will not playback both tracks 1 and 2, but they should both be there when you load the recording into your video editing program. The tracks you assign sources to does not impact ducking. If both audio tracks 1 and 2 do not show up in your video editor, make sure OBS “Advanced Audio Properties” shows both sources as “Monitor and Output” and that “Recording” in the “Output” tab section in the “Settings” menu has the boxes for tracks 1 and 2 checked. Hope this helps out!
May I ask does this work the same with Streamlabs
Hi! Anyone know how to apply ducking to discord audio? Works for my microphone, but doesn't duck for anyone from discord
Incredibly concise & helpful video! Thank you very much, my dude. 😁👍👍
Cheers to you, my man! 🥃🥃
All good - glad to help out! 👍
A zoom to mouse would've been nice for a viewer on phone screen
Yeah, production on these early videos was pretty basic… I’d like to think my newer content takes those things into consideration (at least a bit better). Hope the video helped out. Cheers!
Thank you so much!
Glad to help out, Cheers!
Pretty old video but thanks,i will try this
Setup is the same through V30...hope you have it up and running. Cheers!
How does this work for a dual PC set-up? All of my gaming pc's audio (game + talk) goes to the HDMI-in of my streaming PC, as a single audio stream. How can I seperate/isolate game from voice and apply audio ducking then?
To duck the audio coming through HDMI add the OBS compressor filter to the HDMI source and then select the microphone source you are using on the OBS PC as your ducking source in the filter. Hope this helps out!
@@askdrtk Holy cow... Slightly overdue (by a year), I came back here by coincidence and found my year old question + answer. Thanks a lot! 😀
Hello, thanks for the video! I followed you step by step and it does look like my computer sound is ducking but I can't hear it ducking from my speakers. Am I missing something? Thank you
OBS will duck the computer sound sent to OBS outputs (monitor, streaming, recordings), but computer sound playing directly on your speakers will not be affected. You could monitor your OBS audio through your speakers, but then you would then have latency (OBS creates a delay when rendering video and audio).
Great job, thanks o7
Thanks, glad I could help out!
Hello! Thank you for the video! I have a question, I have music playing in the background (on desktop) and i wanted to the music to lower when sound alerts come on the stream so I followed the steps in OBS like you did in ur video. I am able to see the volume changing in the audio mixer but not hear the changes in my headphones? is there a way to hear it in my headphones also? if that makes sense :)
Hello! OBS is controlling the audio mix (including music) going to the stream however the music you are listening to on your headphones is playing directly from your desktop app. You could instead monitor the audio from OBS through your headphones, but latency will become a problem, especially when monitoring your own voice as OBS introduced considerable latency. It is possible to get around this by routing all of your audio through a DAW and then bringing the mix into OBS through loopback. There would be considerably more setup required and this will also require more CPU resources which could be an issue depending on how/what video you are encoding in OBS as well as what other apps you need to have running. It is also possible to accomplish this with hardware depending on how much IO your audio interface has. Let me know if you are interested in either of these options and I will think about making a video.
@@askdrtk thank you for responding. I am very new to this, it sounds complex tho? perhaps for now i can just try to adjust the volume coming in my headphones differently than the output in obs. Thanks again!
yooo thank you!
Glad to help out, Cheers!
This helps heaps thank you, but when I record myself it doesnt work on playback, does this mean when I am live streaming it wont work?
Glad to help out! It will work on both recordings and streams. The most common reason for compressor ducking not reducing levels in when your microphone level is not reaching the threshold value setup in the compression filter (although it can be as simple as not having selected the correct microphone in the sidechain/ducking source option). Try reducing the threshold until you start to hear the music/game audio being reduced in your recordings. Once you are hearing the reduction, you can adjust the ratio if you prefer more or less reduction to be applied.
@@askdrtk thank you 🙂 this makes sense
LEGEND
Glad to help out! Cheers!
THANKS!!
Glad I could help out!
thank, YOU!
Why are all these vids for gaming, never on playing video's ?.
Thanks
Life saver
I love engineers omg lol
Thanks! Great tutorial!
Glad to help out, Cheers!
just what i needed! Thank you kindly!
Great to hear and I'm glad I could help out!