hey and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you guys doing really really well in this video we're going
to learn how to set up the go xlr on your stream deck if you're lucky enough to have both a go xlr
with an xlr microphone and also a stream deck to help control your stream and all the other devices
that you may be using for example key light airs and philips hue and all the other stuff
like twitch and so on then awesome that means you're in great shape from a hardware point of
view but you may want to also be able to interact between the devices and luckily in 2020 the go xlr
was updated to allow integration with the stream deck in this video i'm going to show you exactly
how you can install that onto the stream deck device and that'll then allow you to use the
stream deck to control the go xlr really really dead simple should be a fairly short video this
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without further ado let's get into this so first things first we're going to just check that the
stream deck and the go xlr are both up to date to do this within stream deck we need to check in the
cog on the right hand side here there's a software version here we can check for updates i'm not sure
what version it was that was updated this is quite a new version here don't think i've got any more
i'm fully up to date here just make sure you've got the newest version and then you'll be able
to access that integration now within the go xlr software within the system tab here we're going
to look for the software download software updates here device is up to date so once we've got those
two things out with out the way we know that the two pieces of software can talk to each other
because they're updated next as you can see on the right hand side here i've already got the go xlr
app installed you may already have this installed if you've updated both pieces of software but just
checking the three dots in the top right hand corner that it is actually visible because if
that's somehow clicked off like that you will not see it now even if after you've tried that
you still don't see it you then need to locate the file and do an installation the default location
is c drive backslash program files 86 tc helicon backslash go xlr i'll link this in the description
below this is the default location however if you've chosen to install this in a different
drive you're going to have to search for that location as we can see though within this folder
for the go xlr there is a tc helicon go xlr file which is modified here which is a stream deck
plug-in you just need to double click this plugin and allow it to install to stream deck device
can't be installed on the machine the custom action is already installed i'm getting this
message here because it's already been installed on my stream deck so once you've installed the
go xlr app on the stream deck you've only got two options so far maybe they'll develop this further
in the future i don't know first of all you've got a go xlr profile change we can drag this onto
whatever folder you want to this just allows you to give a title to a profile name on the button
for some reason i've had trouble actually getting this to link to the profiles and select my
profile but i'm probably doing something really simply wrong here i might just need to restart
both apps or something like that all this is a profile switcher and this just switches to the
different profiles that you might have within the go xlr app you might wonder why is that
useful the thing is that the microphone settings that you have in the go xlr are global settings
i think the mixer settings are also global as well lighting is not global it's set to a particular
profile so if you wanted lighting changes easily from the button you could toggle to the profile to
different lighting if you've configured different profiles uh differently for different lighting
i think the routing as well is also set to the profile so if you have specific profile routing
for audio to different channels to do different things on one profile to the other for example
if you wanted a profile that does have music to your stream but no music for yourself and then
switch it back to a different profile you can have that here but there is another way you can do that
and i'll show you that in a second that's just a cool way of being able to switch to different
profiles if you've got the larger go xlr as well i believe that the sampling the audio samplings that
you can choose to have on the go xlr are also set to the profile so it just gives you a wider array
of options and setting sampling to profiles so that's literally a straightforward profile
switcher this second one here is a go xlr routing table change and as the name suggests within the
go xlr from the stream deck you're able to change some routing in this table here now if
you don't know what this routing table is just to briefly explain it it's a matrix of all the
different inputs versus the outputs so for example a microphone is an input and then a microphone can
output itself to my headset if i click this button if i don't want this clicked then i will not hear
myself if i want it quick then i will hear my own microphone and that's what this table does it will
use this in a number of different ways for example chat into your headset or not chat from discord
into your broadcast stream mix you may not want discord your stream users to hear the chat from
discord in which case you could turn it off from the broadcast stream mix or have it on within your
headset another application that i've used a lot i play a lot of rust and when i get smashed over the
head with a human i like to be able to hear them for the first few seconds before they run up to
me smash me over the head and kill me it's really difficult to do that when my music is also playing
because i also want to satisfy the viewers on my stream who want to listen to some ambient music
by watching me get my head smashed in so whenever i'm playing rust i will turn off the music
rooting to my own headphones so i can hear people running up to me but the broadcast stream mix can
still hear that which means they can just chill to the music while i'm you know like harvesting
wood and stuff my streams are pretty interesting okay so what this button does is it allows me to
select an input it takes a second to update for example the music input and then select an output
for example to the headphones and i just want to toggle it on and off now what this will do it will
toggle the music on and off to my headset whenever i press that button which is much more convenient
than opening up the go xlr whilst you're streaming and having to do that same process it only cuts
out maybe 10 or 20 seconds but it's still a lot more convenient to do it that way i'm sure you
guys have come up with way more interesting and creative ways of using that integration
between the stream deck and the goxillar then i can please drop your comments below if you've
got any good ideas there because i definitely want to steal them if you did find this useful
check out all the other go xlr and stream deck videos that i've got i've probably got like 20
or so hit the like button feel free to subscribe and be safe and have a wonderful wonderful day
that's it we're done i win the game unless she wins the game no no no no no no no what is it
i literally just said uh well i've won now what