hello and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're having a really really good day in this video i'm
going to show you how we can link and split off the discord audio through your go xlr so literally
all we're doing is splitting off the chat line so that we can fade up the chat that we hear and
obviously that then goes into your stream mix as well you can basically control how
loud or quiet or you can mute off the chat audio from discord or whatever device and then of course
just have a better level of control over what your stream is also going to be hearing as well
in the video i'll show you exactly how you can do that and i'll also show you some extra tidbits
of information that will just help you fine tune and tweak that on top of that as well if you are
at a stage where you're just setting up your go xlr in general terms like hardware setup
music setup splitting off your spotify things like that check the links in the description below once
you've finished this video because there's some other videos i've done on go xlr if you want to
make the best of your discord there's a load of other discord videos i've done as well this is
just specifically to improve your discord channel for example integrating twitch subscriber roles
and things like that as always feel free to like the video i'd certainly appreciate that
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you know just generally cause some havoc on my stream okay let's get into this
okay so here we've got the go xlr and we've also got the discord channel here first of all we want
to be going into our sound settings right clicking on the speaker icon open the sound settings as per
the setup video linked in the description below you'll more than likely have the system as your
output device by default and you'll have your line in if you've got a wireless or your chat
mic if you've not got a wireless headset if it's a wired headset but we can also go to
the sound control panel we want to make sure that chat is the default communications device
so we're channeling any communications from the microphone to the chat channel or the chat line
as it were which is obviously a tc helicon line these lines here have been created by
the hardware on the software for tc helicon for the go xlr and then you'll more than likely have
the default device as the system here and you can change this by right clicking and basically set as
in this case i can change the default device to the default comms device but you get the gist
you may also just want to check the recording tab as well i've got mine set to the line in because
i'm using a wired headset and as part of this on the properties i've gone to listen and i've set my
headset my wireless headset to be the device but again more on that in the link in the description
below to check out how to set up a wireless headset and then you've got the chat mic
for the default communications device so the chat microphone is the default comms device
on recordings as well and then we go into the xlr here what we've done is we've linked our
default device for comms and also for sound outputs to be channel 2 and the voice chat
and then we've basically able to link this channel to the fader and all that's left to do really is
to link discord to those channels this fader will fade up and down those channels and obviously if
we click mute it would mute those channels within discord what we now need to do and this is the
final step is we click on user settings we click on voice and video we want to map here the chat
microphone to the input device you can leave it as default if you've set it up properly but sometimes
doing that sometimes there can be changes when you plug devices in and things like that and unplug
devices so normally it's best to specifically map what you want here the chat mic is the default
input device which will set this microphone and therefore your microphone fader will control the
level there and then the output device which is what's being output to the hearing is the chat
here and that then outputs to this and allows this fader to control chat level coming from discord
or of course to mute it once you've done that you can x off and that should all now work and you can
control the chat level using the faders or mute it with the mute button some other just minor nuances
here okay to test the level of your own microphone volume you can actually click within the routing
section of the go xlr app to root your microphone through your headphones if you click this
you will hear your own chat and of course as long as the chat input is rooted through the headphones
you will also hear the discord chat coming through as well if this isn't checked you will not hear it
through your headphones you do need to check that this is checked but also if you want your stream
to hear discord as well you would check this here if you don't want the stream to hear your discord
chat obviously you can mute and define within discord itself which can stop your stream from
doing it but that also affects you within this application with the go xlr application you can
turn off on the broadcast stream mix for chat to be able to be heard by your stream and that just
gives you an option on the fly to be able to do that the final thing on the mixer if you find
that the chat for you is too loud even though your chat might be saying that they can't hear
people talking this could be an issue with your own headset volume so even though you might be
able to hear them right in other words your volume is actually quite high your stream might not be
able to hear so this is definitely an indication that your headset volume isn't at the right level
if you find that you can hear them perfectly but your stream cannot hear them perfectly obviously
if you turn up the chat volume on the main fader that will turn it up for you as well as your
stream so that's like a master chat volume on the fader here you could just turn your own headset
volume down a little bit and the chat up a little bit here which will mean the volume will come down
for you but up for it for you and your chat and that'll just equalize that balance the reverse
is true also if you find that it's too quiet for you but the stream is saying it's too loud you
need to turn your own headset volume up within this mixer here hopefully that makes sense and
does help some people so there you have it how you can easily set up discord faders and control
the audio levels within your own headset just improve things for your stream if you found this
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