One of the more common questions we get here at StreamYard is how to equalize
the audio of multiple guests on your stream. Unfortunately,
there's not really an easy way to monitor or meter your audio levels and
especially the audio levels of multiple guests on your stream,
but in this video,
I'm gonna show you some of the tools that are built into StreamYard that will
allow you to adjust each guest's audio level independently.
But then we'll also take a look at some tools that you can download to kind of
look at the DB value of the audio of each one of these
sources and try and match them so it all sounds good. So with that being said,
we're gonna jump right into it. All right.
So the first method with matching the audio levels within StreamYard is to use
the mic volume tool that's built into the app.
So first thing we're gonna do is add ourselves into the stream.
The next thing we're gonna do is create an invite here.
You can invite a guest if you wanted to in order to test this properly,
or if you wanted to do it, you know,
makeshift so that you have an understanding of what I'm showing you guys.
You can create an incognito window with Google Chrome by clicking these three
dots up here and once you do that,
you can take that link and paste it into the, um,
browser there and it will take you to the StreamYard stream as
an additional person. So this is my guest here,
and this is the stream.
So I'm gonna go back to the mainstream here and I'm going to add the guest in.
Now we have me and then our guest within the StreamYard stream.
So the setting we're gonna be looking at is the microphone setting.
So if we take a look at the guest here and click the three dots,
we can go to edit mic settings and from there we can toggle off the
automatically adjust microphone volume,
and this will give us a slider for the microphone volume.
We then can slide up and down this person's audio until they are coming in
at the volume.
We need them to come in at this would require you to be able to listen to what
they're saying and adjust accordingly. Same thing for you.
If you wanted to adjust your own audio,
you could go into Cam and Mic settings down here,
go to audio and then toggle off the automatically adjust mic volume and you
have your own mic slider. Now in order to test this,
you can do is go over to your guests broadcast.
You can mute yourself and listen to the main audio. Kind of trippy,
because I'm talking to myself, so its weird.
And then you can adjust based on that.
So if we go back to the main,
we then can go to our Cam and Mic settings and adjust the microphone volume.
Now we'll do the same thing for the guest.
So I'll go back to the guest stream here.
I will unmute them them and then go back back to the main,
I will click these threes dots, edit mic settings, and adjust the volume volume.
As you can tell,
the volume is increasing and decreasing as I adjust that volume
slider. If you're using this method,
this will require you to listen to both and make sure they're equal volume
level. Uh,
but this is a perfectly fine way of making sure that the audio from multiple
guests is matching the overall stream. If you're a Windows user,
you can download a free application called VoiceMeeter Banana.
This here is a larger version of Voice Meeter Banana it's called VoiceMeeter
Potato. It has more inputs and outputs, but it works exactly the same.
You can also use an application like this to make sure the audio levels of
multiple guests within your StreamYard stream are at the appropriate volume
level and this is a really interesting way of doing this.
So the first thing you'll have to do is obviously download VoiceMeeter,
but you'll also need what they call the virtual audio cables installed
and both of those are linked in the description below.
If you haven't yet set up VoiceMeeter before,
make sure you check out the VoiceMeeter Banana setup guide that we've done on
this channel, which is also linked in the description below.
The virtual audio cables is a new tool that I'll be introducing in this
video for you guys and what you will be doing is in the hardware input
two, whether you're on Potato or Banana,
you'll be setting this to what is called the cable output or the VB
audio virtual cable.
The next tool that we'll have to download in order for this setup to work
correctly is a tool called Ear Trumpet, which is again,
linked in the description below.
You can also find it on the Microsoft store if you search ear trumpet and
this tool will allow us to route our browser source,
which would be Chrome in my case to the virtual audio cable so that
we can monitor it within the VoiceMeeter application.
So what you would do with the Ear Trumpet,
after you have it installed is down here in the
task bar, we will open up this menu.
We will left-click this speaker icon, which will open up Ear Trumpet,
and we will expand this window. With this open,
what we'll do is go find our browser,
which is this icon right here. We'll right-click it.
We'll click the two arrows here and we will set it to the cable
input. After we've done that, it'll be set to our virtual audio cable,
which will be this source here.
The next thing we'll do is toggle on this A1 source here.
This will help us when we're monitoring the audio of our guests,
and then what we can do is open up our browser window once again and we can
unmute ourselves. Now you should be hearing myself talking, uh,
from that browser window,
this is gonna be the audio level of that source.
So what we can do from here is unmute this source and you can
kind of either watch this meter here or look at this number in the master
section,
which is giving you a decibel value of the audio level.
So in this case,
we're hitting about negative eight decibels at our peak.
So what you will do is go back to StreamYard.
You can adjust the volume ever so slightly close out of this once again,
or minimize it and then check again in VoiceMeeter where that volume is
hitting and adjust until you get it set up correctly. Ideally,
what you'll do is have each one of your guests and yourself hitting right in the
negative 12 to negative 15 decibel value and that should be a good volume for
your listeners. Lastly, if you're a Mac user,
I wasn't able to find a completely free software for you guys in order
to meter the audio levels of your browser and yourself so that you
can level them out. But I did find a software, Audio Hijack, that
comes with a free trial so that you can kind of test this out and it works kind
of similarly to VoiceMeeter,
but not really what you would do is select your application source within the
app, and then you can set up what is called a peak RMS and
this will give you a meter of the audio level of that source and then you can do
that same thing for your microphone as well,
and set up a peak RMS for that source as well,
and then compare them right next to each other and then you can go into
StreamYard and adjust the audio levels until they match.
I hope this better helps you understand how to level the audio of every guest
that you have on your StreamYard stream.
I wanna thank you so much for watching this video. If you enjoyed it,
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this. If you have any questions, leave them in the comment section below.
Thank you again so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one.
Peace.