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Audio is by far the most important aspect of your live stream, you
absolutely have to get it right, but most people overlook it.
What did you say?
Listen up old man, the OBS sound set up can be one of the most
difficult parts of getting OBS right.
You have to set up who hears what the volume levels of each of those
inputs and how you listen to the audio that you need to hear during
the stream and so much more.
So how do you set it all up and manage it properly?
I'm going to show you all that today and get you set up perfectly.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
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Let's start with a fresh new profile and I'll walk you through all the
settings first.
Let's quickly go over the optimal settings.
So I'm going to just create a new profile here and we'll just call
this audio settings and click okay.
so now our settings are brand new.
We can set them up and there's nothing in general that you need to do
that has anything to do with sound.
Stream obviously doesn't, there's nothing in output.
If we go to audio here, you can set your sample rate.
If you want to change it, it's not necessary.
You can set it to stereo, whatever type of stereo you want.
Just keep in mind if you only have one microphone, this is kind of
pointless either way.
I always leave all the audio devices disabled.
I like to set up my own audio.
I don't want OBS to set it up.
I want to do it.
So the only thing we're really looking at here is advanced, and this
is where we're going to set our monitoring device.
So I'm going to click this and I'm going to select the headphones that
I use to monitor my sound during my live stream.
This is going to be sound from guests, sound from games, sound from
music if I have any playing anything that I want to hear, well, I'm
going to do it through my headphones.
So I'm going to want to go here in my monitoring device, drop this
down and select my headphones.
Other than that, we could just apply.
And there's nothing in video.
There's nothing in hot keys and there's really nothing in advance that
you need to mess around with sound wise either.
Now, if we go to output, we can set it to advanced and we can go to
audio right here.
And here's where you can change the audio bit rate for any of the
tracks where you have your audio playing.
I generally leave it at the default.
I think one 60 is fine for an audio bit rate.
I've never had anyone complain about the audio on my live streams.
So, you know, this is all your call and that is pretty much all of the
settings that we need to set up.
We can just click apply and okay.
And we're all good to go.
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Now let's customize the audio for different types of scenes.
I'm going to show you one way without any plugins and the other way
with a really cool, helpful plugin that you can use for free on
windows.
So the first thing we want to do is that a camera we're going to click
the plus and we're going to just add a video capture device and our
camera comes up.
We want to go down here to the bottom and select use custom audio
device.
And then we want to go ahead and use this dropdown to select the
custom audio device, which would be our microphone.
And we want to make sure that microphone is actually turned on and
there we go.
So now we have audio for our microphone.
We're all set.
Step one down.
Now we'll go to another scene.
We're going to click the plus and we're going to add some guest audio.
So the first thing I'm going to do is add the guest screen.
I'm going to go up here to display capture, and we'll just name this
guest.
We'll drop down the display that our guests are on and we'll expand it
out.
And what I'm going to do is use the alt key just to crop up our guest
window.
And I don't have any guests.
It's just me.
And you're not going to be able to hear your own microphone for
obvious reasons.
So I'm just going to go ahead and add the audio.
We'll click the plus, and we're going to go to audio output capture,
and we'll call this desktop all and you'll see why I call it desktop
all in a moment.
We'll drop this down and you just want to select where you would be
listening to your guest audio from in our case, it's the device we set
as the monitoring device, which is our headphones.
So we want to drop this down and select our headphones and click
okay, so now what I'm going to do is since I'm not going to have any
audio in my guest screen at the moment, I'm going to go ahead and just
add a video in here and click open.
And when I play that video, you can see we're not getting any audio.
Why is that?
Well, I have to go down and make sure that that's where my audio was
playing.
So I go down here and I set it from speakers, which is where I'm
listening to it now to our monitoring device, which is the headphones.
And now when we play it, we can see that it's coming through our
headphones.
So now I'm going to flip back over into my main scene and I want to
show you why I put that at desktop all.
So in our main scene here, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to add
another audio output capture, but I'm not going to use the same one.
I'm going to create another one.
And this is called desktop me, and I'm going to select the exact same
output, the headphones.
And then I'm going to go over to audio mixer, and I'm going to click
the little gear and I'm going to go to audio me, and I'm going to drop
down the audio monitoring.
And in this case, I want to be able to hear the guests when it's just
beyond the screen, but I don't want the audience to be able to hear
it.
So I'm going to drop this down and select monitor only in mute, output
and click close.
And that means I'm monitoring the guest audio so I can hear it, but
it's not going out to the live stream.
Now, if I flip back over into our guests scene, I'm going to go ahead
and select that gear button again.
And I'm going to turn this to monitor and output.
So I want the desktop all to go out to the stream.
Whereas I want the desktop me to only be something I can hear this
way, even when I'm not on a guest scene, I can still hear what my
guests are saying.
If they have a question or comment about the stream, this is also how
I use a remote producer to tell me what's going on in my chat and
things like that, because I can hear them even when they're not on
screen, I'm going to go ahead and create one more scene.
We're going to call this scene game, and then I'm going to go to a
game capture and click okay, and it's just going to capture any full
screen.
So there we go.
We've started lost ark .
Now we just need to add audio.
And for this, we're just going to go to audio output capture, and we
can add an existing and we can add our desktop all that means we're
grabbing the desktop audio that is meant for the stream.
And there we go.
Now we can see that audio playing.
Now, if I have guests, obviously people are going to hear them as well
as the audio, desktop audio is just that it captures everything
that's coming out of the sound that your desktop produces.
Let me show you a more advanced way to do this, where we can separate
those things.
First, we need to install a quick plugin.
So in this page, we're just going to go over here to the right go to
download, and it's going to bring us here and we just want to select
this install one right here.
It's the top one.
We just click on it and download it.
And we go to our downloads page and double click on it.
And then we just want to click next through here and install.
When you get to this page here, you just want to verify that it is the
correct OBS directory.
In my case, I'm installing it on the E drive and it's OBS dash studio.
In your case, it's probably going to be C program files, OBS dash
studio.
Once you verify that it's the proper location, just click next and
then next, and then install.
And for me, it's going to tell me that I'm running OBS and it has to
shut it down, which is what I'm using to record this video.
So just click next through this and finish when you're done and
everything will be installed and ready to use.
Okay.
So now that that's installed, we emptied out all of our scenes.
We're going to start over.
And of course, first we'll just add our camera and we'll drop it down
and we're going to select our custom audio again.
And there we go.
So now we have a camera audio in there.
We'll go to our guests scene and we'll use a display capture to
capture our guests and we'll drop it down and we'll bring it up.
And you guys already know how to crop this.
I'm not going to do it again.
We'll just add our guest audio.
But instead of selecting audio output capture this time, we're going
to select our application, audio output capture.
And we'll just call this guest audio all, because this is going to go
to the stream and I want to monitor it and we'll click okay.
We can drop this down and select the executable for the audio that we
want to hear.
And then all we need to do is add that executable.
Then we click okay.
And so now we are just capturing the audio from that window.
I'm going to go over here and click the gear and I'm going to set it
up.
So it monitors properly.
And since this is monitoring for all, I'm going to go ahead and set it
up to monitor and output.
Now I'm going to go into my game scene.
We're going to add our game capture once again, and then I'm going to
click the plus and we're going to add the audio in this case, I'm
going to go to the application, audio output capture, and I'll just
call this game all.
And we'll drop this down and we'll select our game and click add
executable.
And now we see our game audio.
I'm going to go over to the right here and click on our gear again
we're going to go into advanced audio properties.
Now, I want to make sure that I can hear the game audio.
So we're going to monitor in output it and click close.
So maybe we want our guests on here as well.
I'm going to click the plus and I'm going to go to application, audio
output capture, and we're going to add our existing and we're going to
add our guest audio all.
So now we have both our guest audio and our game audio in there.
And if we switch back to our main scene, if we still want to be able
to hear our guest's audio, let's set that up as well.
So I'm just going to click audio output capture.
I'm going to call it guest me.
I'm going to drop this down and select the correct browser and click
add executable.
And then, okay.
Then I have to go into my audio mixer, select the gear and go to
advanced audio properties.
And I'm going to drop this down and select monitor only mute output.
And that means I'm listening to my guests on this scene, but it's not
going out to the stream.
And of course, when I play the video in our guests screen, we can see
that that audio is working.
You can see that when I talk on the microphone, you cannot hear it.
So if we wanted to make sure that my audio was on this scene, what
we're going to do is we're going to go in, we're going to select our
audio input, capture and click okay.
And we're going to select our microphone and then click okay.
So now our microphone is on the guests scene as well.
So now we have the guest audio and my audio all in this scene.
So now you can understand how advanced audio properties work and how
you can set up your audio to pretty much here and do anything that you
want on your live stream.
So if you wanted to listen to music or something like that, you can
actually separate it out and you can set it to whether the audience is
going to hear the music, or maybe just you.
It depends how you want to set it up and you can have it different in
every scene if you want.
If you're having audio issues, you should check out this video on the
five things you need to check first.
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