hello and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're having a really really good day now so previously
i did a video for obs studio on how you can add an audio visualizer spectralizer spectrum
geyser loads of people told me that i've been saying it wrong i don't really care
it's basically a way that you can visualize waves and sounds on your screen but also then add it to
your stream but at the time i used a plug-in called spectralizer from obs studio and it was
very specific to obs studio but i did promise in that video that i would do a streamlabs obs
version so you can add an audio visualizer to streamlabs obs so if you're a streamlabs obs user
i'm going to show you exactly how you can add the audio visualizer to your stream how you can tweak
it and make the best of it make it look really really cool for your stream if you're an obs
studio user and you want to do basically the same thing you could watch this video for inspiration
and give me the view if you really want or you can just check the link in the description which
is how you can add the audio visualizer what i'll also just mention to anyone regardless
of the platform you're using and that includes xsplit and obs live and stream elements whatever
it is that you're using i'm also going to link a couple of other videos in the description let's
just show you how you can make them visually more appealing and also how you can add the spotify
album artwork or the apple music artwork and also the name of the song which just gives you a number
of different options on how you can just make the music experience on your stream better yeah that's
what it's all about we want to make your streams awesome right if you find this useful hit the like
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for slash machine dana we're gonna get straight into it let's go we're gonna be using a free
application here called plain nine which you can download it takes 30 seconds to install and
there's a load of features from this application that allow you to do loads of different visually
appealing things for your stream some of them are quite cool some of them just downright wacky and
i'll show you a preview of some of these when we download it and just click this download button
here you'll then get a download to show you can right click this show it in folder you'll then
see it shown in folder now i noticed that the icon to show that it was an actual application
didn't appear at first even though it said that it finished downloading for me if you just double
click that icon after about 10 or 20 seconds even if the icon is white then it should still download
for you double click into it and this will make it install now click next choose a folder agree
to the terms you may want to turn off some of these extra things that it downloads obviously
these two here are the default just choose which things you actually want on your computer and not
now we just want to make a note here of where exactly we're installing this to or you can
browse to install it to a new location if you want to do that click install i just copied that
link there to my clipboard we've now finished the application's now installed and you can see there
exactly how quick that was installed to the pc now the two ways that you can access this now
we can either go into by pasting the directory that we just placed it to and scroll down here
you can only install it with this and there are some other application icons here which we'll
get into in a second another way is let's simply just do a search for 0.9 and you can open it in
windowed mode and that's quite important because i found when i did this and you may get frustrated
with this when you try to install this if you don't open it in a windowed mode it's it kind of
just takes over your whole pc and if you're using multiple monitors that's going to be a problem for
you so first let's double click on the config here this will open up the application and here
we've now got and as you can see a massive choice different plane nine backgrounds and scenes and
almost like screen savers that we can choose from it is responsive so if you resize it it kind of
resizes the icons like that we can now get rid of this here because we're inside of the application
now now you may just want to right click on here and pin it to your taskbar if you plan
on using this application every single stream because that just means you can click on that
and it'll open it up for you because you will need to run this to allow the audio visualizer on your
stream if you're not running this program when you stream this will not work it's not a one and done
situation you have to have the window open to show the audio visualizer we'll then bring that
into streamlabs obs and i'll show you exactly how to do that some of them are super wacky this one's
got eyeballs and all sorts but there are some cool ones there is a block spectrum here there's also
another one that i saw up here which is a monster spectrum which is like a double-sided spectralizer
there are some natural playlists here that select a number of them and with these options here you
can actually basically create your own playlist there's a car one a default one party whatever
when i add a new playlist we're going to call this double click it call it slobs audio visualizer
currently there are none of these scenes that are added within that playlist now you can have a
number of these if you want i'm going to go ahead and just add one simple audio visualizer onto this
this laser one's kind of cool so just to note if you double click onto the scene to preview it it
will just try and take over your computer i got really frustrated with this for about a minute or
two so what you just need to do is next to your playlist select it by clicking the arrow here
we'll add it to your selected playlist here and if you just click on this little icon here it will
open it in a windowed mode so there's a preview of that particularly it's this window mode here
that we're going to bring into streamlabs obs you do not want to be having this in full screen mode
because it literally will take over your computer and drive you crazy just another note here you'll
sometimes get it with some of these scenes that you select that it's black if it's black that
means that it's not like a repeating background screensaver if it's black it means it's basically
waiting for some sound input and there are some settings that you may want to look at first just
to make sure the sound is actually coming through the options tab here allows you to
do that you want to capture sound from default recording device instead of what you hear now this
is up to you if you want it to capture absolutely everything that you hear in your headset it'll
take stuff from your headset if you only want to capture stuff from a specific line you can click
this and toggle go to sound settings here open the sound settings and go into the control panel
and on the recording tab here if you scroll down it's going to try and take from the default device
whatever this default device is so you can obviously change it to be any of
these devices you want by right clicking and then saying set as default device in this
case i'm saying set as default comms device but you'll have an option to set as a default device
like this just bear in mind if you change things in here there is a rolling effect of
those defaults on all of your other programs so just be careful with what you do actually change
here to be honest if you've done a load of other configurations on your stream particularly if
you're using some sort of mixer device or an xlr you'll more than likely know a lot more about this
if not check out my go xlr playlists which are also linked below that'll just give you a little
bit more of an idea of how those settings actually work so my personal preference here is that i
want to capture the sound only from the default recording device which is the line in for me for
me that is my go xlr line in which is basically like a broadcast mix of everything that's on
the mix there's other stuff you can do here like layered scenes in vr and some other vr settings as
well so now we've looked at the settings really you just need to select the spectrums that you
want in there if it's one or a number of for now i'm just gonna go with the one spectralizer this
one's pretty simple and straightforward i'm gonna open it up by clicking this tab here
and we can see this is sort of working but kind of not let me just try playing some music now
okay that appears to be working pretty well
just to note here that the obs studio version of this that i went into there's a lot more control
because it was a plug-in directly into obs studio whereas this we're capturing a separate window
and placing it into obs studio there's obviously going to be a lot less control that you can have
over that because you are capturing a window but there's still some stuff we can do like take
transparency away colors overlays shading things like that and i'll go into that later in the video
i'm pretty satisfied that that window capture is now working here but just definitely note
that you need to click on this icon to open it up into a window like this so at this point you can
technically close down the plane 9 application and this window will stay open as a separate window
now we're going to hop into streamlabs obs we're just going to open up any old kind of
scene that we want to add this on to we're now going to click onto the plus icon on the sources
there's a number of ways that you can add this you can have this with a windows capture could
even do a display capture if you are displaying the full audio visualizer on a full separate
display on its own i wouldn't recommend it doing it that way if you go into game capture
that gives you a little bit more control over the specific application that you're going to capture
we're going to add a new one we'll name this so we now have this source first of all i'm going to say
okay i want to capture a specific window here now you could set it to capture any full screen
application but the problem with doing that is if you have multiple full screen applications there
can be conflicts so i'm going to have this source capture a specific window and i want it to capture
the plane 9 application here now just to note here when i actually did minimize it it froze the audio
visualizer so when i've got it going like that and i just bring streamlabs to the front it does still
work we've now got the application in now it's running we've not got plane nine the full selector
application so the load on the pc should be relatively low so it's gonna specifically capture
that one i'm gonna now click allow transparency that'll just take away the black but there's
other ways you can do that for example using like a chroma key and chroming out the black color to
add a chroma key you would right click filters and you would add a new filter called chroma key here
and you would basically filter out specific colors a custom chord that you want to figure out play
around with these settings until colors disappear that you want to disappear as you can see
already this actually looks like quite a cool effect for the old audio visualizer if you want
like a subtle effect but that's not the effect i'm going to go for so i'm gonna actually remove
that by clicking the minus icon here and just go with the base settings now at this point we could
just use this as it is for example just pulling it into the bottom and making it full size or right
clicking and going on transform fit to screen that's fine and that will work and if we just
test it with the music you can see it's reacting to the music and that works pretty damn well
but it kind of looks a little bit crude don't you think i'm not a big fan of this so
i'm going to do a few things in this video and i'm going to link some other videos below if you
want some more tips and tricks on how to make this look really really nice this is already
quite a long video so i don't want to go into too much detail here so for now what i'm going
to do is i'm going to right click this i'm going to click filters there are some visual presets
within streamlabs obs that are actually pretty cool in among themselves for example a grayscale
it's a pia tone dramatic and so on i quite like the inverted one so i'm going to use this as
my bass visual preset but i'm going to add some filters to this you can add a mask and blend which
will take out some gradients and i cover that in the video that i've linked below for beautifying
your audio visualizer i'm going to go ahead and add a color correction here and i'm just going
to play around with some of these settings to make this look really really nice so first of all
i want to take some transparency out of this let's just put it to 50 so we can see stuff behind it
which is quite cool i quite like high contrast colors so i'm going to turn the contrast up we
can now use the hue shift to completely change the color of this if we want to so you can just play
around with that until you get to the setting that you want i'm now fairly happy with that as
it is now that's quite a simple audio visualizer and again if we just play some music to test it
it looks kind of cool it's definitely better it's moving in the right direction check the link in
the description for adding the spotify album and the name of the song so that'll add some further
dynamicness to this so that people can see the album that's being played they can see the song
name that's being played on the artist i'm going to just show you a couple of other quick tricks
here to make the most of this i'm going to resize this down it can look pretty cool to have it
in the middle like this but if you right click and transform you can have it to center on the
horizontal and that'll just center it perfectly for you you can then use the arrow keys to move it
up and down if you want i'm now going to hold out and drag this down to crop the size of the source
because a lot of the bars are not really going up much higher than this so i just don't see the
point in having that again it's going to move it a little bit higher now i'm going to ctrl c and ctrl
v to duplicate this audio visualizer with this one here i'm going to just drop it down right click it
transform again i want to rotate it 180 degrees which will invert it that in itself has created a
pretty cool effect that you can do some stuff with we've now just right click again and transform
flip horizontally will allow it to mirror the one in front of it and you can make multiple
versions of this and all sorts now what we could just do is click them together
and add them into a group and call it audio visualizer so now when we resize
that in itself it will resize both of them at the same time and we can even rotate these
further to make it like horizontal or whatever across top and bottom
and there you go i mean that's a fairly cool audio visualizer that we've got there it's not
perfect there's still a lot more we could do with this but i didn't want the video to be too long
hopefully you guys found this useful if you did hit the like feel free to subscribe to me
have a brilliant day and don't forget to be awesome take care
i don't know why i'm doing it over the front of the camera because it doesn't even
do the full screen this time so i'll just i'll just get my editor to edit in like a cut scene
oh wait actually edit my own videos see you later
it was i can't know which way around it was because there was
a song on the way in and then a song on the way out that we chose
the violinist was just unbelievable i mean really good we got a pianist as well that's pianist not
a penis we did not get a penis at the wedding although gemma did in the evening am i right
ah yeah