Today, I'm going to teach you guys how to record
all your conversations on Discord and/or Skype,
so that you can use these conversations
to win arguments later on down the road
or extort people for money. Just kidding.
Let's get Undone!
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♪ Gerald Undone ♪
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What is happening, everybody? I'm Gerald Undone
and today, well today, we've got a question
from YouTube comments. Remember I was saying
on the other video, to send me your questions
and I will do my best to help test some things out,
answer some questions, do whatever I can,
solve your problems for you?
Well, we've got one today from Ltsune. Ltsunay.
Lieutenant Sune. Sorry if I'm getting your name wrong.
-Uh, it says -[reading words on screen]
So, this is a great question, thank you so much
for submitting it, and I think I have
a pretty good solution for you that should work
for pretty much anybody watching this video,
anybody who wants to record some sort of audio
thing that's going on the computer.
I found a pretty, a pretty easy way to do that
and this is going to be for a computer tutorial,
but it doesn't matter whether you're on PC, Mac,
whatever, but I've just got a couple of disclaimers
for you, especially with the joke that I made
at the beginning of the video, #1, don't record people
without their consent.
It's creepy, don't do it, okay?
And the second thing is the quality,
no matter what steps we go through in this video,
the quality is always going to be, you know,
by its weakest link, which means the person
that you're speaking to, it doesn't matter how good
your hardware is, if their hardware is junk,
it's going to affect the quality,
and then the second thing is going to be the,
the quality of the call itself. So if you're using Discord
or Skype or something else and your connection is wavering
or you're getting that weird robotic thing,
you're going to record that.
Obviously, most people are understanding of this,
but it's just the way that it's going to be
that you can't expect better quality than,
than what the call is producing itself, but within that,
we try to capture that to as much, you know,
keep, keep as much of that quality as possible
that was in the call. Okay, so moving on how to do it.
Okay, so for this tutorial, I'm going to recommend
that you use OBS Studio. I know that a lot of you
probably know that I'm a big fan of OBS,
but you're also thinking to yourself,
"But Gerald, OBS is also video, it's not just audio only."
And, that's true, so you're going to have to remove
the video afterwards, or just overwrite the video
with your gameplay footage if you're trying to do
the collab thing or whatever your other purpose is.
You know, you can always just record a black screen
and delete the video in your editor, it does,
doesn't really matter but the reason why I like
to use OBS is one, it's free, it's easy,
there is a plethora of information out available on it
and it's useful for other instances that you might want
to do, do this voice thing on Discord as well.
Maybe you're streaming, or maybe you're doing
a podcast and you're not in person
and you have to be able to record
the other person's voice this way
because they can't record it and send it to you,
so you can use it for that, streaming, podcast,
pre-recorded gaming videos, whatever,
OBS is, kind of, your friend, so it's better to get know
one program really, really well and then to be able
to use it for a lot of purposes, whether that includes
video or not. Anyway, so let's go to Google
and type in "OBS Studio," and it should be pretty easy.
Go to the first link there and you can see,
you can get it for Windows, Mac, Linux.
So, once you download that program, pop it open
and it should look a little something like this.
Now, this weird, you know, Inception thing
that's going on, it's because I'm recording my screen,
which is recording my screen in the screen, blah blah,
and all the way down, but ignore the main box here
and let's just look along the bottom.
The reason why this is going to work with Discord
or anything else is, as you can see here,
you've got Desktop Audio in the mixer,
and then below that we've got our mic.
Now, in here, in the mixer, you can control
the mix stuff. If you hit the cog and you choose Filters,
you can add Filters and Effects to your mic,
and if you choose Properties, you can change
the device type right in here if you have multiple mics
hooked up. And then, also, if you choose
Advanced Audio Properties, this is where
you're going to have the option
to change the volume levels, pan it left or right.
If you're using a mono microphone like I am,
you're going to want to hit Downmix to Mono,
that way the microphone isn't only coming in
through the left channel, but it's going to be split
through the left and the right, and you can also put
a Sync Offset in here, which is, I feel like a lot of people
don't know about this function in OBS,
because I hear a lot of complaints about
when they're trying to record video with OBS,
that it's not synced up. You can put the offset in here
so that if you find that your video source
and audio source aren't lined up, you can line it up
right there, which is great for streaming, and then,
you're going to want to enable-- this is going to come
in the Settings-- you're going to want to enable your tracks
across the board here so you have these options.
If you don't want certain devices to not be available
for certain tracks, then you can uncheck them.
This is just there for you to customise,
but I pretty much use Desktop Audio
and the microphone in pretty much everything I record,
so that's why I checked all the way across.
Now, when we look at the levels down here,
you can see that as I talk, the microphone is popping up.
When you're talking to somebody on Discord,
their part of the call is going to come in here
on Desktop Audio and it's going to pop up this way.
And then, you can use your levels in here
or your can use the levels in Skype or Discord,
the user volume control to try and get it
so that your levels are about even,
if you want to sound like you have a similar volume
to your voice. So, you might want to bring yourself
down this way, or bring them up until,
and then you can do that same thing, like I said,
if you go in, if you go into Desktop Audio now,
and you're going to choose Advanced Audio Properties,
you can increase the desktop audio volume percent,
you can make it 200%, 300%, whatever,
and that will increase their volume.
They're going to be on Desktop Audio
and you're going to be on Mic, and you can, kind of,
give a little bit pre-mix mastering there,
so that when you record it, you're a bit more even,
because when we do record it, we're not going to be
recording separate audio streams
unless you record your voice separately
from the Discord voice and you try to mix them afterwards,
but that's going to add even more to your workflow.
So, you know, the easiest way to go
about doing it would be this way, try to get the mix
right and then just record it as one file type.
Now, when it comes to how we're going to record that,
on the right hand side here under Controls,
you can hit Settings and jump down to Output
and go to Recording. And now, in here,
you're going to-- mine are greyed out
because I'm actively recording--
but you're going to choose a location of where
you want it to record, a recording format.
MP4 is probably the most flexible file container,
and then encoder. I would use x264,
because if your computer isn't doing much other
than recording this audio thing,
you don't have to worry about it, and then,
the output and stuff, that is not important either.
Now, there is something I have here
in the Custom Muxer Settings which I can,
I'll put it in the description so you can copy paste it
if you want. Basically, it's when you're recording
to an MP4 file, that actually says it right here,
"Recordings saved to MP4 will be unrecoverable
if the file cannot be finalised." So, if your power
shuts off or your OBS has to hard crash
before the file is saved, then it, the MP4 will be lost.
It won't, if it doesn't, if it doesn't finish,
you don't get any part of it. So if you put this thing in,
basically what it does is it puts, like, keyframe flags
throughout the video so that you can recover
every so many seconds as you record.
So, it's a useful setting to have, just paste it in there.
So, I'll put that in the description,
copypasta that in there.
Then down here, I just have this set up,
basically, to like max out, so if you put
the Rate Control on Variable Bit Rate,
and then just type in all nines for the Bitrate,
that will basically say it'll use as much bits
as it needs to for a local recording,
because we're not streaming this, right?
We're just saving it locally, so it doesn't really matter
how big the file is, for the most part,
especially with just audio. So just fill that up
with nines, use Custom Buffer Size,
type zero for the Buffer Size. Put a CRF of 18,
should be fine, and then zero, Ultrafast, Profile High,
tune None, you can just pause it here
and make yours match to this, but you put this in
and you'll basically just get a pretty 1:1 recording
of the audio as it's coming in.
Now, you'll notice up here, next to audio track,
I have Track 2 checked. That's because I use
different settings for different tracks,
and these are set under the audio tab.
So, if you go to the Audio tab,
Track 2 has an Audio Bitrate of 320,
because when I stream, or do something
that I need to have a smaller file size, I might set
the audio bitrate, like as you can see in Track 1,
down to 160, but if I'm trying to actually record
something and I want to preserve as much as possible,
I'm not really worried about the file size,
so I set the bitrate up to 320, but I know this is Track 2.
You can put 320 as Track 5, and then in Recording,
choose Track 5. That, that's the track I want to use
for this recording. And then, you're getting
your maximum audio quality that you can get,
and then you're good to go. That's pretty much
all you have to do to setup the audio part for OBS.
Once you have it all setup, you, this over here,
as you can see, is you have Sources on the left hand side
down here. You hit Plus, and you can put
all your different sources in here.
I have Display Capture, so it captures everything
that's going on my monitor right now,
and that's fine for Discord or whatever
because you're not really going to use
the video anyway. But, even if you turned that off,
you would have only a black screen,
which is going to make the file size smaller
and you're still going to get the same audio stuff here.
Then, you just go ahead and press Start Recording
over on the right here, and have your conversation
on Discord, and then maybe start the call
a little previous and get them to talk
and say you know, just count to ten,
and then they count to ten and you count to ten
and then just, get your levels right,
and then record it. Once it's recorded,
you're going to have an MP4 file with a video
and an audio stream, but you said you were planning on
editing this anyway, so you can put your game footage
over top and then sync it up. So you pop it open
in your whatever NLE editor you want to use,
and throw your MP4 file that you recorded from OBS
on there, take your video footage, you know,
you could sync it up along the timeline
and just copy it over, or you could unlink it
and delete the video footage from the OBS file.
It's really easy, you don't have to worry about
the video file. Now, there are a lot of other ways
to do this, there are audio programs you can use.
I'm sure you can probably get it to work in Audacity
or Audition or something like that, but, I like OBS,
like I said before, because you could also use
the same settings, once you get comfortable with it,
you can stream with it, you can do it to capture
other things including video. Maybe you want
to make a tutorial like this one.
I recorded this entire thing, the, the desktop parts,
on OBS, to show, kind of, how it's good to get to know
a program, especially a free program that pretty much
everybody can use and it's got a lot of power behind it.
So, that's it, basically, for this.
I hope that it was helpful to you, especially, Ltsune.
If you found that I missed something
or that there's something you're not really sure about,
let me know the comments and I'll do my best
to answer it there. If anybody else has any questions
about this tutorial, also leave them in the comments,
or if any of you have anything else
that you want help with, doesn't have to be this.
Is it possible for a 12-year-old boy to get pregnant
from reading comic books?
Just anything in the creative tech space,
let me know in the comments and I will do my best to get
to them, any ones that I think I can help with in future videos.
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Alright... I'm done.
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