everybody knows about alerts they're the little things that pop up on your screen
to let you know when someone has interacted with your stream
it could be a new follower a new subscriber a new donation or a few other
things but what if there's a way that we could
make these alerts more than just the notification we could
make them fun for the audience and incentivize engagements actually
surely we couldn't do that with just some recorded sounds
a bit of creativity in streamlabs obs could we
hi i'm eljay with streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at twitch.tv/eljayem_
links to both those in the description today i'm going to be
walking through how to choose sound alerts
record your own edit them export them and then upload them into streamlabs obs
and this includes if you want multiple different sound alerts for different
notifications if you're here just for the upload
process or a particular part i put time codes in the description as well as in
the top pinned comment on this so feel free to skip straight ahead to wherever
you need to be but otherwise we're going to get
straight into going through the entire process
first things first let's talk about how to choose alerts for your stream now if
i go to a streamer and they've got some very loud or obnoxious alerts
then personally i'm going to pull away from that stream it's just not for me
so if it's personal preference then why am i even bringing up that i don't like
loud or obnoxious alerts am i trying to stop people from using
them no i'm just mentioning it because my first tip of this video is
think about your audience and your key demographic you'd be shocked how many
streamers don't have a key demographic in mind
so when it comes to picking things like what game to play what overlay to use
and of course just like this video what sound alerts to use they kind of
just go with whatever so if you go with whatever those sound
alerts could actually just end up turning off people who are regular
viewers in fact it could be your main viewer
base just because you thought one thing was funny
an example of this is that an asmr streamer probably isn't going to have
fog horns and car crash sounds or funfire for their alerts and
vice versa if you're a minecraft or fortnight streamer
you're probably not going to have someone sitting there going
because it's probably not your key demographic
so the biggest tip i can give you for choosing your sound alerts is to think
about your community and sometimes the best sound alerts come
from your community the ones that they really latch on to
and like for example over at my stream at twitch.tv
ljm underscore link in the description we have a segment called weird internet
where people can submit funny videos and stupid shit to watch on stream the clip
that we're going to be turning into a sound alert today
was incredibly cringy to watch but my community loved it and i did too so they
asked if i could turn it into a sound alert
so that's what i'm doing today but before we do that just quickly i have to
say make sure you have permission to use any sounds you choose to record using
this method just because you can record a song
doesn't mean that it won't get a dmca takedown double check you have
permission or just be safe and only use your own
stuff all right let's get into it start this
out you're going to need to have your alert box and some of your overlays set
up i want to know how to do that there is a card at the top of the screen
now or a link in the description for those mobile users
that will help you get yourself set up with a full overlay and everything you
need and then you'll be here and you can come
back and set up your sound alerts let me show you what you're going to
have at the end of this video so you should have your default alerts set up
so for example i follow this is the alert that i have installed
from neural die that i purchased i also have bits set up
brilliant
right so that's there and then finally i have uh
another variation which you can see right here new variation and this is
kind of what we're going to be setting up today
so as you can see that i won't be showing you how to do the cutout that's
another video for you instead today i'm just going to show you
how to do the sound so what i've done is i've downloaded
from my own stream a clip of me saying uh
a phrase and i've used that as the background so if i were to do 200 bits
my audience knows that donating 200 bits triggers this particular alert then this
would happen
perfect so at the end of this you're going to have something similar to this
that said one of the funniest moments of my stream in the last few weeks was when
we found this video this video is incredibly
cringy and we watched it on stream together and it was hilarious
good morning tps students it is testing week and it's time to slay
all day stay woke be on fleek and get that gucci breakfast
goals say bye felicia to that testing stress
weather's gonna be turned right chris yes toledo weather gonna be the
lit during testing week a hundo p chance of success you've got this kids
steve how about that traffic are we looking ok
better than oh we're talking turn fomo won't be an issue no traffic
problems around any tps scores to keep you from taking
those tests all right sorry you had to watch that
but essentially we fucking loved it it was amazing so
what we're gonna be doing is we're gonna take this audio here from when they say
get that gucci breakfast and that's what we're gonna be using
turning into an alert today and get that gucci breakfast
if you're watching this video it means you use streamlabs so if you want to
record any audio that's coming through your desktop
with streamlabs all you have to do is come down here and click this record
button find it lay the audio and then hit this
again and you've got the audio now before you hit record there are a
few things you need to have checked i'd recommend going to
output going to recording standard recording path make sure this is set so
you know where the files can be saved change to an mp4 and set it so it
records all six tracks just for safety i have mine to software x264 but
whatever you want it to be set to works as long as you have all your
tracks mp4 and you know where it's recording to
once that's done as i said you just hit the record button and you're good to go
all right so now that you have it recorded it's time to grab that and
chuck it into your editing software now today we're
going to be using premiere pro because i have that
however it does cost money any editing software even the ones that come with a
mac or movie maker will be able to process
your recording and you will be able to cut and export that out as an mp3
so i've dragged in the thing you just saw at start of this video to my
premiere now what i'm going to do is i'm going to find the segment of the talking
that i want to use or the clip that i want to use
find it here i'm going to select it using in and out points
and get that gucci breakfast perfect all right so i'm going to grab that and i'm
going to drag that down into a new timeline
after i've just grabbed the end of it here
there we go dragging into a new timeline and you'll see i have
six different audio tracks now i only need one of these and delete all the
bottom ones and i'll delete the top one here as well
and i just have my audio
as you can see you can kind of see the waves here
once you have your clip isolated every program is going to export out things
differently but our goal here is to get this audio
exported out as an mp3 in the highest quality we possibly can
with no visuals so if you're using premiere just find
the timeline i'm going to right click i'm going to say export media
it's going to pull up this now what we're going to do is we're actually
going to change this here we're going to change this to an mp3
and i'm going to set it to high quality mp3 256 kilobits
don't need to but best i'm changing it to high quality
we will name this i'm going to say get that
gucci breakfast alert and stereo hi important project you turn
that off because i don't need that and i'm going to hit export now
it should be incredibly quick to export as an mp3 you won't have any visuals or
anything like that so you should be fine and we can close that
right so you have your mp3 your sound effect ready to go now which numbers you
can actually customize your alerts for every single type of notification
a follower a subscriber a bit amount a donation in general all these things can
actually also have multiple these are called variations now
variations trigger are based off a few different sets now
we're going to go through this in a second
today i'm going to creating a new variation for myself under bits and i'm
going to go through that in the screen recording
but to make it simple if you want one sound effect for every type of alert
which i wouldn't recommend but you can do
it's easy you just have to do exactly what i'm going to do now but without the
variation part and you need to make sure you install
that sound alert for every single type of alert
the second option is to have a different sound effect for every different type of
notification now that's pretty simple after you've
done it once you'll understand how to do it for every single one but you do need
to go through and install each one manually and the final
option is variations now these are easiest to
explain by explaining bit variations for example you can have
it so that 50 bits triggers for a certain sound or a certain animation
the 100 bits trigger is another one and you can set these to be any amount you
want now i hope that hasn't confused you i'm going to jump into the screen
recording now or i'll cover it all again but with actually the display so once
you have your sound alert exported and it's ready to be brought in
you're going to find your alert box go to source properties
you'll go to your bits you'll go to plus alert button here
click bits you'll get a new variation so we're going to name this i'm going to
name mine gucci breakfast because that makes it
easy to identify you're going to come over here to media now i'm going to
delete this default media and put my own gif in that i already have created
you'll have your own media for this hopefully
but here's for the sound alerts this is where we're going to put in what we have
just created ourselves we click change media
we are going to go to the upload new media gallery
we are going to find where we left our alert for example i'm just copying
the file structure and putting it here so i can grab it it will
upload it once it is uploaded i will just double click that
and it will be good to go i'm going to lower the volume down to 60 as well
because i want to be too intense and i'll click save now we're
going to go to our alert settings this is where we're setting up our variation
we have a min amount to trigger 50 which we'll go over later and then we're going
to go to bits used exact amount
i'll cover these in more detail in a second but for now let's get this set up
variation amount needs to be set to 250 this means that when you donate 250 bits
it will be used i currently have one set for 200 as you can see here
but this new one will be 250 it is a nice round number
easy for people to remember and good to go
just quickly we're gonna go back to our animation settings this is nothing to do
with the sound but i just need to quickly change these because these are
set to the default currently now the animation settings have nothing
to do with the sound but just so i can show you the completed alert this will
have to change i'm just changing them so the same as the previous new variation i
have so once you have this set up you're also going to want to
head over to streamlabs dashboard this is streamlabs.com
dashboard i believe and what you're going to do is you're going to go to
your alert box you can edit this for any of these settings but again
i'm using bits so i'm going to go to my bits section here
i'm going to scroll down to the bottom i'm going to open alert variations
and you'll see all of your variations so i have a new variation which is for the
200 bits and i have gucci breakfast which is for the 250 bits
now because i can't test my specific 250 bits
in this setting here i actually have to go to the website and click
test now you'll see it should pop up with a test alert when i click this
and get that gucci breakfast did you see how it just appeared and then
screwed it away really quick that's because streamlabs for some reason
despite me setting my alert duration to be eight seconds
it didn't actually put that in it set to two so you go to the website you change
this here i'm gonna set it to seven seconds i'm gonna click save
and i'm gonna save settings and you know what i'm gonna hit it again because i
really wanna make sure that this doesn't screw up on me again now once it's done
i'm going to hit set test again and it scrolls in you hear the alert and
it will scroll back out well it's taking a bit of time there so
you can play with your alliteration but only edit your alert duration
in the website and hit save over and over again you'll see the alert duration
there was 300 seconds in this just ignore that
only do it on the website just quickly i want to cover a few of my
alert settings so you're on top of things
so once you go to alert settings for the alert you're editing you'll see the
first thing is min amount to trigger alert mine is set to 50 which means this
alert here of 39 bits won't trigger it has to be over 50 bits
now this isn't because i'm not grateful for 39 bits it's simply because
that's just a nice cap to avoid lots of spam if like
10 people alternate one bit we're not getting 10 individual alerts
so there are three types of variation condition the first is bits used exact
amount this is the one we use meaning that 250 bits is connected directly
to the alert then you have bits used at least amount now this means that
anything over that amount will get that certain
bit so anything over 250 would trigger this and then the final one you have is
random now random it just means that if you have a lot of different alerts
anything can go off at any time congratulations you now have your sound
alerts all set up i would recommend letting your viewers
know exactly what amounts do what or you can even just put in the panels or a
command somewhere the amount equals question mark question
mark question mark like some sort of advent sound alert so people have to
donate to figure out what's going on or what the sound is
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