hello and welcome i'm machine dana how are you doing really really well in this video we're
going to be going through how you can set up your go xlr go xlrs are awesome i've recently added
one i found it to be amazing so far brilliant for the faders and sound improvement on my streams on
my youtube videos has improved significantly i actually went with the go xlr mini but in this
video we're going to get into a little bit about the differences between the go xlr mini and also
the full sized the video is going to be split into sections here so the first section is going to be
reviewing the actual go xlrs themselves the second section will be actually setting up the hardware
of the go xlr the hardware side i'll briefly discuss a one pc versus a two pc setup as well
as obviously the go xlr full size versus the mini from there i'm going to talk about using a wired
headset versus a wireless headset because this can cause problems significant problems actually
so depending on what type of headset you are using and also the microphone input that you are using
can dictate how you set this up from a hardware point of view as well as the software too then i'm
going to go into the windows side of things and the windows set up for this exactly how you should
be setting up the different options you should be aware of then i'm going to talk a little bit about
the go xlr software itself and what the fade is doing things like that i'm not going to be going
into a great deal of detail about perfecting the audio in this video but i will mention where those
are located in some key points about the software the final thing will be i will just be linking to
further content whenever i talk about other videos all the videos will be linked in the description
below but rather than having one 30 or 40 minute video i'd rather have a much shorter video to set
it up and then different videos for the different elements of things that you might want to do with
the go xlr kind of makes sense but i'm sure i'll get criticized either way you either have two long
videos because you're trying to cover too much in the video or your videos are too short they don't
cover enough and it's like you really can't win but anyway so yeah this is a video all about the
guy xlr and it's hopefully going to be a really good resource if you just bought the gox a lot or
maybe if you've already bought it and you're just trying to make the most of it because you've not
set things up if you do find this video useful i'd appreciate a like on the video feel free to
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okay first i want to talk a little bit about the differences between the go xlr and the goxillar
mini fundamentally the hardware inside it is the exact same there's just a little bit more
capability in the larger price tag you're looking at about 400 for the larger around about 130 250
for the mini they've each got four faders on you can mute those faders that's what all these are
here they each have a swear word button here and then a mute microphone button here and here which
will just temporary when you press it to hold mute the microphone and let it go whereas the hard
press on the microphone here will toggle it on and off now on the large you've got different pitch
reverb echo and gender they're more like effects and just on the fly effects that you can apply and
also you can use presets for that as well have a megaphone robot hard tune and some effects here
so if you're looking to have on-the-fly effects and you've got the spare money to upgrade to the
large then i would recommend that whereas if you're not really bothered about that kind of
stuff and you want maybe the space on your desk because this is about twice the size of the mini
i'd recommend the mini to you you've then got some sample presets that you can program into the go
xlr here as well the galaxy mini doesn't have that but fundamentally all the jacks that you have in
and out of both of these are exactly the same one key difference is the larger go xlr is powered by
the mains so dc whereas the mini is powered by usb essentially so it's powered from your
pc which is why you get a little bit of space saving with the go xlr mini so it's just showing
the back of the devices the reason i just wanted to demonstrate this is that they've both got the
xlr microphone input and obviously that's one of the main reasons you would buy this
if you're using the go xlr and you're not using an xlr microphone i really question why you're really
using this product pretty much the main reason you would want to use this is so you can have an
xlr microphone capability so if you're using a 3.5 jack microphone in you're kind of missing out some
of the functionality of these products so on these mini these two jacks here are actually located on
the front but other than that everything else is exactly the same except the dc in
on the large is not existing on the go xlr mini because it uses usb power here whereas this usb
power on the large is not powered it's just purely for digital signal so now we get into the hardware
setup of the go xlr depending on whether you've got a one or two pc setup here will depend on how
you loop this i'm mainly gonna focus on a one pc setup because most people here will be having a
one pc setup the key difference between a one and two pc setup is you're generally gonna have a pc
that's controlling all the audio like your game your discord your system sounds and then on a two
pc streaming setup your secondary pc will be the one that then handles the grunt work of encoding
and uploading so we'll then have obs or streamlabs obs running from it and actually just needs pretty
much one sound input from it so for a two pc setup you need to have the usb from your go xlr device
connected to the main pc that you're using to do the things that you're broadcasting for instance
gaming discord and so on and then you connect the second pc up through the line out of the go
xlr into the line in of the broadcasting pc which will create one audio source to then come into obs
studio i'm not going to go into too much detail about obs studio setup in this video because i'm
going to do a separate video about that i don't want this video to be too long so this is why on
both devices you've got line ins and lines out because they're able to be used to basically
push between pc lines if you need the extra lines but if you've just got a one pc setup the line is
actually happening the communication between your pc and the go xlr is happening mainly through the
usb connection so to set this up you need to make sure you're plugging in your xlr microphone via
an xlr cable these are the three pin cables here and they're normally a male to a female connection
just like this the female connection goes into the back of the go xlr and by the way neither
of the go xlrs come with these wires so you'll need to purchase these wires separately once
you've plugged in your microphone you now have a microphone that is xlr inputted on the goxillar
mini it's powered through the usb which is why you've got the extra power pack thing at the
end of the usb line you've got the go xlr large you're obviously gonna have to plug it into the
mains using the plug socket and power connector now at this point you're probably thinking well
this is kind of set up but it's not we now need some linings particularly for your headset so
if you're using a wired headset then you're going to need an input wire from your headset
so that any sounds from your headset can be received so you connect your headset via
3.5 jack into the headset in this is indicated in green it's on the back of the go xlr large or the
front of the goat xlr mini if you are using some sort of 3.5 jack microphone that microphone would
go into the front of the go xlr mini indicated in the pink which is a microphone in jack it's on the
back of the larger go xlr but again if you are using a 3.5 or usb style microphone here you are
really taking away some some of the functionality from the guy xlr by not using an xlr microphone
some usb's headsets do come with both the usb input and also a 3.5 jack if you're using the
headset microphone and the headset itself has a microphone 3.5 jack that would be what goes
into as a microphone input into the go xlr the front of the mini or the back of the large i'm
not going to go into too much detail about how you would set this up on a wireless headset and the
reason is because i've got a separate video that i've already done for this please check the link
in the description but there's some extra kit that you might need to buy here mainly it's the 3.5 to
3.5 jack which just connects go xlrs headset line to your pc it'll use the usb then to communicate
as well but just check the video out for that one things for sure if you've bought the go xlr expect
to just plug this in with a wireless headset it doesn't work like that there's definitely going
to be some extra stuff that you might need to get to get this to work on a wireless headset that's
definitely a lesson i learned when i got this kind of annoying actually so now at this point
we've got the hardware sorted out it's connected and there's just a few other things that we need
to do from a windows point of view to get this working so you can right click on the speaker
icon and open up the sound settings or you can do a search in windows for sound settings here
the output device is the main sound output and you want to be selecting the system tc helicon guy xlr
here this is all the system sounds that you want to be hearing as an output from windows into your
headset essentially or speakers or whatever it is that you're using as a sound output and
just to briefly explain what the system sounds actually are if you then go scroll down to the
app volume and device preferences here all of these different devices are applications that
are running at the moment that have some sort of sound output for instance chrome or the system
sounds or even like obs studio and if i also now play spotify spotify will also appear here as well
and the great thing about this is you can define the default or a specific input output for each
one of these devices so i'm not going to get into too much detail about this again because i'm going
to do a separate video about some of these things but if you want to get really finer detail about
which output device you use specifically for your browser for example you would set that here but in
essence the output sound will bundle it all into one system line from the go xlr once it's done all
of the fading work and the muting and stuff like that so that's why you would select the system
as the output here and in terms of input i've got this set as a line in because i've got a
wired headset and i've had to use the line in to recognize the wireless headset and then to my pc
but most people are going to be selecting a chat microphone here and using the 3.5 jack input that
we talked about earlier so depending on whether you've got wired or a wireless headset will depend
on what you're using here if you're not sure just start with the chat microphone see if you're able
to pick up some chat if that doesn't work try the line in but this relies on you probably having
done some work for the wireless headset at that point as well anyway just to go to a little bit
more detail here we need to click on sound control panel this will open up the control panel here
another way of doing this is to right click on chat and set this to the default communications
device and the system sounds right-clicking and setting this to the default device and this will
just set the system sound as the default device chat sounds as the default communications device
it should make some sense that but you'll notice as soon as you get into the sound control panel
you've got all these extra lines here this is very much the go xlr working its magic the go xlr is
designed to be heard and split lots of different lines and then to cleverly kind of merge all those
lines into a single line if you then need that and we'll go into a bit more detail about that
in the obs and streamlabs obs video that i've created on how to set it up with that because
there is a broadcast line that bundles everything into a single line that you can then use within
obs studio called i think it's broadcast line just for reference point here as well on the recording
device if you are using a line in because you've got a wireless headset you can right click and
set this as the default device for the line in on a wireless headset and the chat mic then becomes
the default comms device the line in just for ease here we need to listen to the headset device by
clicking on listen to this device and selecting your headset here as long as you've got all
the connectors that i discussed in the wireless headset video this will allow you to hear sounds
through the headset even though it's wireless if you're not sure again just experiment with some
of these settings or check out the videos that i've linked below there's obviously quite a lot
to cover here so at this point you should be in a position where you've got the hardware set up
you've got windows configured the go xlr should be able to receive microphone sound and push that
sound into windows depending on what fader level and whether it's muted or not it will also be
picking up system settings from all the different sound sources that i showed earlier for example
the browser or system sounds sounds from spotify or whatever so really we're now getting into the
final bits of the video where we're going to go through the go xlr software the go xlr software
is a prerequisite you can't really function the guy xlr without the go xlr software um or at
least if you can you're probably a hacker and i don't know why you wouldn't use the software so
so the go xlr software you need to get this installed and updated as soon as you've plugged in
and set up your go xlr you can x off this in the top right hand corner and just minimize it i would
recommend just keeping it minimized to your tray here most of the time the software just shows
like a visual representation of the hardware that you're using there are some default profiles here
which you can go through which just change kind of like the colors of the physical go xlr itself i've
gone with the vaporwave it's quite a cool color setup there's also a visual representation of
what's happening on your xlr as well for example if i press the mute button on the microphone
it shows as being muted on the software so now at this point we've got the option
to set up the more finer details of what we want the microphone to sound like and also what
frequency levels you want to be higher or lower and even things like the gate and the threshold
and the compressor and things like that i'm not going to go into detail about these because i'm
going to do a separate video on it but i will just briefly touch on some of the key settings
here first of all the noise gate in this software most of you watching this are probably streamers
that have set up noise gates within streamlabs obs or obs studio you essentially don't need to have
those on your microphone to cut out low level humming noises or high level screams and things
like that you're all screaming on stream right are you even a streamer if you don't scream on stream
well say that when you're drunk are you even a streamer if you don't scream on stream so
we're handling noise gates and the quality of the microphone within the go xlr software so you can
set the gate threshold attenuation attack release here instead of in streamlabs obs or obs studio
we've then got an equalizer this just controls like the sound of your voice so the lower end
of your voices the mids and the highs you can just tweak what you want them to sound like to actually
fine tune essentially how silky or not you want your voice to sound i'm not gonna go into details
about where you need to put these because there are loads of videos out there and i'll be doing a
separate one anyway but this is where you would do that and you can fine-tune the different frequency
levels and next we've got the compressor on the go xlr mini the key difference between the mini
and the full-sized go xlr is the equalizer there's a wider range of frequencies you can control the
full size go xlr also has a de-esser option here as well the compressor is a really important part
of the microphone the software compressor here is first of all it's going to be better than what you
can achieve within obs studio or streamlabs obs we've also got a little bit more control on the
fly by using this software one thing just to make sure you do when you've made all these changes
i've learned here that if you don't click the save button here some of these will revert back so now
that we've got our microphone working how we would want it to work once you've set that out we're
now on the mixer itself and here's where we can just fine-tune the audio levels of the different
things for instance the microphone level or the chat level music so on and so forth now within
the go xlr by default you've got the microphone the chat the music and the system sounds on the
physical hardware and it's even physically printed on the hardware as well so even though this is set
to be a system you can set it to be something different and within the software you can still
control different things as long as it's mapped properly to remap things you can right click on
the open sound settings here go into the control panel and you can specifically define for instance
the game volume within this game line here or the sample volume and so on and so forth i'm not going
to get into those details in this video but that is where you would do it so if you wanted to split
off for instance your gaming sound you could do it on this then just have to set channel 4 in in
this example to be the game source rather than the system source so here's where you're essentially
reprogramming these faders personally i found that mic chat music and systems worked pretty
well for me so far but so you probably won't have to do any of this other than set the volumes right
now one quick tip here i noticed that the music volume on my stream was really low or really
loud i couldn't get it right my viewers basically kept telling me that the music was too high and i
could barely hear it or that the music was too low and i could hear it too loud the reason for this
is the headphones itself you can set the volume to yourself you can set the volume of what you hear
with this toggle here so this is the headset audio level and this does not affect any of these faders
your microphone volume will still be the same your chat volume will still be the same it's just the
level that you hear through your headset of the mix of these sounds so if you find that you can't
quite get the volume right of your music or it's too loud for you but not loud enough for people
in chat and things like that you really need to be playing around with the headset volume for
you and then using the visual indicators and also speaking to your chat and things like that to get
a feel for the right levels of music and game and systems and this might take a couple of streams or
a little bit of testing to do it routines this is quite an important part this routing section here
now all we're doing here is mapping what inputs attribute to an output and this is where an
example you can actually hear your own microphone speak through the headset now obviously in real
life you speak and you hear yourself speaking so you hear it once so you shouldn't necessarily need
to hear a microphone loop itself back through the headset to hear it again a split second later but
there might be some situations where you do need to hear the microphone and some people just prefer
to hear what they sound like in which case you would click to root the microphone through here
but here we're saying through the headphones we want to hear the chat we want to hear the music
the game the console lining system and samples and we can uncheck any of these things for instance
in the headset if i wanted the broadcast stream mix to hear the music but not me to hear the music
i could uncheck this i wouldn't hear the music even though my broadcast would the same can happen
in reverse you may not want your stream to hear music but you may want to hear some music whilst
you're gaming or whatever in which case you would do it that way round and the same goes for all
these and we're saying that the broadcast stream mix is essentially a bundle of all of those sounds
into one and this is where on a two pc setup or using obs studio the broadcast stream mix bundles
everything into one and you can configure what you actually want to be on that line i've put
everything because i want all of my lines onto a single line into obs studio so i can just control
the one audio source within obs studio and then i do all the rest of the configurations on the
physical microphone itself or on the faders or within the xlr software it's completely making
from an audio mix point of view my streaming software redundant it is redundant it's purely
just a visual representation now within streamlabs obs or obs studio hopefully that makes sense i
think it does so that just about covers it the initial hardware setup the windows setup
the go xlr software setup itself and some extra little tidbits of information now i just want to
talk briefly about additional content i've made a number of different other videos i've made another
video which will be connecting and splitting off your audio for music into the go xlr for
example if you're using spotify or apple music as mentioned i've made a separate video about setting
up a wireless audio headset with the go xlr check that in the description below there'll be a video
for isolating the discord chat and being able to fade those separately from all of your other
sounds with the go xlr and finally there will be a video on making this work to the best
of your ability and its ability within streamlabs obs or obs studio and if i get enough time i might
also do another video where i just go through in detail where those faders should be in terms
of setting up a really good audio volume gates and compressors and things like that hopefully
you have found this useful it's a little bit different to my normal videos but i know a
lot of people use go xlrs so i wanted to put this content out there because i had to go to
so many different sources to get this information i thought you know what i need to pull this into
kind of one video but then videos that branch off to other videos of mine if people need them
if that makes sense i think that makes sense maybe not i don't know if you did find it
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