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.
If anyone's having issues with this now: This is kinda out of date!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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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~!
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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.
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
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
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 RUclips "guides" dont make sense to me. 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! 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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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!
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
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
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?
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.
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?
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?
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 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.
i love the video! literally the thing i was looking for to help out with my stream. i was wondering if there was a reason why my mic all of a sudden was kind of messed up? i have a blue yeti, and before i downloaded the virtual cables and everything, the filters i had on it worked fine. And now after i separated audio tracks, the mic all of a sudden is too loud. i still had the same filters even changed them and they look great until i record and its still too loud. i checked my gain and audio level in the settings and everything is normal. Wondering if there was something i missed or if you had an idea? Thanks!
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?
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 ?
(Sorry for the repeated question, I just don’t know if your more likely to reply to an old video or new one lol so here I am asking again lol) Hey I have a really tuff question for you. I saw your video on using virtual cables to separate and control all audio sources individually and it’s been working great but I’ve come across a hiccup. All In-game chat (voice chat from squads in game, so not Xbox parties or discord) goes straight to desktop audio. The only input I don’t have going into my stream is desktop audio, so the stream can not hear the random squad mates I play with. They can only hear people I put in my discord or Xbox party because I put discord and Xbox into a virtual cable. So when I try to send desktop audio to a VC and then add audio monitor filter, It’s either just doesn’t work, echos, peaks really loud, or the stream can only hear it but I can’t. How can I keep all the perfect monitoring I have made and also find a way to get desktop audio to be heard in the stream and in my headphones without bad things happening lol?
The whole plan is to never input Desktop audio (aka your speakers or headphones) in OBS Studio. This will completely prevent echoes. Then you have to go about deciding which applications should go to which virtual cables, and then set up "listening" in windows to your headphones/speakers (shown in this video) to be able to hear things for yourself.
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?
Hi! I'm using a virtual audio cable assigned as the monitor, in order to use my microphone with OBS filters in other applications. Is there an alternative way to do this, so that I can still listen to my other sources and monitor them with my headphones? I can't wrap my head around it. I want to still be able to hear twitch alerts, but as I have my mic as the monitor I cannot monitor that source.
@@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.
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
Aran, I have a question... actually several. You went through this with the VB-Audio virtual cables, and it seems really simple and straightforward. Does this solution have ANYTHING to do with Voicemeeter Banana? I've been using it to try to get around the whole ASIO4ALL issue of certain sound sources getting kicked to the curb when others are in use. For example, if I run a standalone VST instrument and control it with a midi controller, system audio sources disappear, like RUclips or other music playback programs, etc. I want to sort out my audio interface, audio playback / communication programs, DAW/VSTs and OBS once and for all, so that I don't "break" my sound every time I want to do something different. I also use Skype and various messenger apps (FB messenger, What's App, etc.) other communication programs. HELP!
Banana is a kind of virtual cable manager, but it's a whole other beast, whereas this is it's own way of routing audio that is more manual than Banana.
@@aranhawaii Your vid DID help me with getting say Spotify in the background and what not, but I can't get all my sources, particularly the Audio interface, webcam mic AND the system audio all working together seemlessly, and then ported into OBS for video recording. I'm not streaming, but might want to in the near future.
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.
is there anyways to lower the delay between the virtual cable and what im outputing it to? I would say something and it wouldnt come out still like a second later and its annoying. Ive tried setting the sampling rate to the same as the input and output but after a few mins it goes back to the delays. ANy fix?
Great video! :) Everything works but i have one problem i don't know how to solve. My stream can't hear the Streamlabs sounds for follower, raid, donations etc. How can i change the device their to my audio cable A or and B?
Depends on if you're using OBS Studio or Streamlabs OBS. If you're using OBS Studio, go into the properties of the Browser Source for your alerts, and find the checkbox that allows OBS to control the audio, and then you'll have a new item in your Audio mixer for alerts.
When I use my sound settings and set my spotify output to Line 3, spotify says it cannot play this track right now and can't play any music. Is there a change in spotify since this video went up?
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
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 RUclips, 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 RUclips 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!!
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 ;__;
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: ruclips.net/video/UrppylZ4MeY/видео.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.
@LoriBlox THANK YOU you're a life saver
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
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
This was the most well explained video on this sound setup that I've seen yet. You're awesome man!!
Ayyyyy tysm!
thank you bro. this was so simple. other people are not as direct. Much love.
Thanks!
Lifesaver!!! You ROCK!!! Spent 5 hours trying to solve this problem!!!
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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!
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.
Bro, you're a legend and I love you for it. Sick guy!
Really good job. First class. Cheers, Callum.
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.
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
This was the best video on these cables i had seen good job brotha
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!
At last a clearly explained tutorial on how to set up virtual cables... Good job...
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~!
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!
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!
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?
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.
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
Thank you a lot, i took a whole morning doing this aaaa... You're a legend!
Finally a tutorial that fixes the audio playback. Thx man
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!
Thanks for the tutorial, can you help advise me on how to bring sound in from Zoom to OB S using VAC
Thank you!! The best tutorial yet on audio splitting; so simple and straight forward :)
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
I cannot explain how precious this video is, thank you
You are so kind
This video made clear and simple what I was struggling with setting all this up, many thanks 😊
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
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 RUclips "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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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 😎
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
This is SUCH A HELP! You got my sub, thank you thank you thank you!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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?
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: ruclips.net/video/UrppylZ4MeY/видео.html
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?
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Thanks! It makes my VM play audio!
Very cool
Ok I love this tutorial but how do we add the third and fourth audio cables to obs?
this video helped alot but is there a way to not hear double without getting rid of the desktop audio?
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!
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?
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
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
Amazing solution! for years I couldn't solve it...
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 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.
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Thank you good sir 👊
Welcome aboard!
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?
If I assigned both desktop audios to Spotify & Internet browser will my stream still hear my games without adding it to the mixer?
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?
underrated thanks so much this helped a lot
No problem!
do they have a cell phone version
Really...REALLY good video thank you so much.
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.
i love the video! literally the thing i was looking for to help out with my stream. i was wondering if there was a reason why my mic all of a sudden was kind of messed up? i have a blue yeti, and before i downloaded the virtual cables and everything, the filters i had on it worked fine. And now after i separated audio tracks, the mic all of a sudden is too loud. i still had the same filters even changed them and they look great until i record and its still too loud. i checked my gain and audio level in the settings and everything is normal. Wondering if there was something i missed or if you had an idea? Thanks!
Haven't heard of that happening before! Sorry.
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?
very very helpful! thanks!!
Great video, it definitely solved my audio issues I was having with my streaming. :D
Glad it helped!
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 ?
(Sorry for the repeated question, I just don’t know if your more likely to reply to an old video or new one lol so here I am asking again lol) Hey I have a really tuff question for you. I saw your video on using virtual cables to separate and control all audio sources individually and it’s been working great but I’ve come across a hiccup. All In-game chat (voice chat from squads in game, so not Xbox parties or discord) goes straight to desktop audio. The only input I don’t have going into my stream is desktop audio, so the stream can not hear the random squad mates I play with. They can only hear people I put in my discord or Xbox party because I put discord and Xbox into a virtual cable. So when I try to send desktop audio to a VC and then add audio monitor filter, It’s either just doesn’t work, echos, peaks really loud, or the stream can only hear it but I can’t. How can I keep all the perfect monitoring I have made and also find a way to get desktop audio to be heard in the stream and in my headphones without bad things happening lol?
The whole plan is to never input Desktop audio (aka your speakers or headphones) in OBS Studio. This will completely prevent echoes. Then you have to go about deciding which applications should go to which virtual cables, and then set up "listening" in windows to your headphones/speakers (shown in this video) to be able to hear things for yourself.
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?
Thank you so much this video helped a lot.
Glad it helped!
Hi! I'm using a virtual audio cable assigned as the monitor, in order to use my microphone with OBS filters in other applications. Is there an alternative way to do this, so that I can still listen to my other sources and monitor them with my headphones? I can't wrap my head around it. I want to still be able to hear twitch alerts, but as I have my mic as the monitor I cannot monitor that source.
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! you explain it so clear and easy.
I appreciate it
New subscriber here. I'm really glad I found your channel.
Thank you so much for subscribing
why when I enable the vb cables, my sound stops working, and i cant even hear the tutorial anymore.....help
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
OBS with no BS has me dying hahahhaha man you should be paid for that line!!
Thank you! I really did NOT want to use voicemeeter so this was great.
Glad I could help!
Aran, I have a question... actually several. You went through this with the VB-Audio virtual cables, and it seems really simple and straightforward. Does this solution have ANYTHING to do with Voicemeeter Banana? I've been using it to try to get around the whole ASIO4ALL issue of certain sound sources getting kicked to the curb when others are in use. For example, if I run a standalone VST instrument and control it with a midi controller, system audio sources disappear, like RUclips or other music playback programs, etc. I want to sort out my audio interface, audio playback / communication programs, DAW/VSTs and OBS once and for all, so that I don't "break" my sound every time I want to do something different. I also use Skype and various messenger apps (FB messenger, What's App, etc.) other communication programs. HELP!
Banana is a kind of virtual cable manager, but it's a whole other beast, whereas this is it's own way of routing audio that is more manual than Banana.
@@aranhawaii Your vid DID help me with getting say Spotify in the background and what not, but I can't get all my sources, particularly the Audio interface, webcam mic AND the system audio all working together seemlessly, and then ported into OBS for video recording. I'm not streaming, but might want to in the near future.
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?
can we get an updated version, something just won’t work for me
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.
I LOVE YOU DUDE
No, I love YOU. ;)
@@aranhawaii
This was so helpful. Thank you so so much!
You’re welcome
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
is there anyways to lower the delay between the virtual cable and what im outputing it to? I would say something and it wouldnt come out still like a second later and its annoying. Ive tried setting the sampling rate to the same as the input and output but after a few mins it goes back to the delays. ANy fix?
Great video! :) Everything works but i have one problem i don't know how to solve. My stream can't hear the Streamlabs sounds for follower, raid, donations etc. How can i change the device their to my audio cable A or and B?
Depends on if you're using OBS Studio or Streamlabs OBS. If you're using OBS Studio, go into the properties of the Browser Source for your alerts, and find the checkbox that allows OBS to control the audio, and then you'll have a new item in your Audio mixer for alerts.
Can you route Spotify to FL Studio? For reference tracks?
When I use my sound settings and set my spotify output to Line 3, spotify says it cannot play this track right now and can't play any music. Is there a change in spotify since this video went up?
Might be a spotify bug, not an OBS issue.
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? ruclips.net/video/e7FETfXXom0/видео.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?
This awesome Aran. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
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.
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.
How would you run the audio from FL Studio through OBS to Streamyard? That would be an awesome video for you to make!
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 RUclips, 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 RUclips 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!!
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 ;__;