Hello, my YouTube friends.
There aren't a lot of people who actually do videos on streaming with
a Mac.
And in the past, that was for a pretty good reason, in my opinion.
In fact, I pointed them out several times in a bunch of different
videos.
So which one is best in a word, the PC.
So really we're just talking about the wrong tool for the job.
And if you're really serious about live streaming and you own a Mac,
you should seriously consider just getting a dedicated streaming PC.
But then the new M one Mac happened.
And I streamed with that thing and pushed it as hard as I can.
And it performed absolutely flawlessly.
I mean, I was totally shocked, but there were still things that were
difficult or impossible to do when streaming with a Mac.
Audio is really difficult and all you could really do is capture
desktop audio.
And that is not ideal.
That was then, and this is now.
Today I want to show you how you can separate audio sources on your
Mac in OBS and control each one individually.
This is a true game changer for streaming on a Mac.
And it's really easy as well.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
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The app I want to show you today is called caster and it's from ginger
audio.
Now in full disclosure, this video is sponsored by ginger audio, but
when they told me about this app in development, nearly six months
ago, I was really, really excited.
The released product is everything they said it would be and more.
And the features coming soon are ones that you're going to want to
hear about.
So make sure you stick around until the end.
To check out caster free there is a link in the description below, but
for now let's dive in and change live streaming on your Mac forever.
So this is the castor page.
Link is in the description down below.
All you have to do is click on download caster, but you can see it
tells you a little bit about it.
You're going to learn everything you need to know from this video, but
this is what the webpage does look like.
All you have to do is click download caster, and then you just go into
finder in your downloads, and I'm going to right click on this and go
to open and it will bring this up.
And I just click continue and continue.
And it's going to ask me to agree with the license, and then I just
install it.
It'll ask me for my password to install it.
And I just put that in and click install the software.
It runs through.
It's very small package.
It runs really quick.
And then you just have to click restart for it to restart your
computer before you can start to use it.
And now it's fully installed.
Of course, once you've restarted.
So to open up castor we're just going to go into finder and double
click on it, it's going to be under the Cs.
and once it's opened, here's what we're going to get.
Looks pretty complicated.
I do understand that, but there is an FAQ on all of the things that
this will do.
If you go into the ground control castor guide, here is a listing of
what all the buttons do.
And I'll include this in the description as a link.
So you can check it out.
But I'm going to tell you what all that stuff does anyways.
So next I opened up a window to YouTube.
So we have a video in here and that's going to give us some audio.
And I also opened up a game.
Yes, you can game on a Mac.
So how do we add these in individually into castor?
Well, you can see desktop's audio is already here, but if we click
this and go to add, then I can add divinity in there.
We see it right there and it's already playing.
You see, it has some audio in it.
We can adjust the volume here, or we can adjust the master audio over
in outputs.
Then I'm going to click this and we're going to add our Google Chrome.
That way we can also get the sound from our video.
And if I click play here, look back over into castor.
Now you can see that our Google Chrome audio is also playing.
We can adjust the volume here.
You can see, you can also mute it down at the bottom to your
headphones or to the stream, whichever one you want, but we don't
actually have it going out to our stream just yet.
So how do we do that?
Well, it's pretty simple actually.
We're going to go up here and we're going to click on this button and
then we're going to move this little slider here on direct to.
And that is going to create an input for us.
So now all we have to do is go into OBS and add our sources.
So I'm going to go ahead and click the plus under our scene.
And the first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and add a display
capture.
We'll call this one game and I'll click okay.
And there we go.
It's capturing our game and I'm just going to right click on it and go
ahead and transform it and fit it to the screen.
So it's not absolutely gigantic.
And there we go.
Now we need to add the audio for the game.
So all we have to do is click the plus, go to audio input capture, and
we'll put game audio here and click okay, then I can drop down the
device and select divinity, original sin.
So we imported the audio directly from there.
It's just that audio, nothing else.
Now I can add a video capture device and I'll add the existing one,
which is just our camera.
And I'll shrink this up a little bit, put it down here in the bottom
left-hand corner.
And all I have to do then is add my microphone in here.
I'll go to audio input capture.
I can add an existing one that I already added click okay, there we
go.
So now we have two separate audio devices, game audio, and our
microphone.
Now I'm going to click the plus under scenes and add another scene in
this case, we're going to add a window capture and I'm just going to
call this one video and I'll select our proper window and click okay.
And there we go.
So now we need to add the audio, go to audio input capture, and I'll
call this video, audio and click okay.
And all I have to do is drop this down and select our Google Chrome
audio and click okay.
Now, when I play the video, I can flip back over into our OBS and we
can see that our video audio is coming in.
We can adjust the volume and do whatever we like.
Now I can click the plus and go to video capture device.
I can add my camera in here, shrink it down.
And I can add my audio by clicking the plus and going to audio input
capture.
And there we go.
So now we have my microphone audio in there, and if we wanted to, we
could even add our game in here.
We'll go to display capture, and we'll just add the game we already
added.
And we can go ahead and right click and transform and fit to screen,
and then shrink it up, place it wherever we want on the screen.
And all we would need to do now is click the plus, go to audio input
capture, and select our game audio.
And we can add that to this scene as well.
And it's limitless the amount of audio that you can add.
In fact, if you didn't want to add your microphone into OBS directly,
you can add it through castor and soon enough, there's going to be
good reason to do that.
I'll talk about that at the end of the video, but as you can see, you
can separate audio devices and bring them into OBS now on a Mac.
It's absolutely amazing.
So the last one over here is the soundboard, and this is really cool.
We can go ahead and give it to direct two.
Then we go down into our sources.
We add an audio input and I'll just call this soundboard and click
okay.
And we'll drop this down right here and we'll select our castor
soundboard click okay.
And now all we have to do is go into caster and click any of the
buttons associated with audio.
And it's going to play that audio source.
And there are four different menus for this.
So there are a lot of different sounds.
And the best part about this is if we click this little three dots
over here on the right hand side, for the sound effects, we can go to
file browse files and load in our own soundboard files, change the
name and use those.
So it gives you a whole bunch that you can use, or you can change it
to all of your own.
It's absolutely fantastic.
And it works perfectly.
So the menu over here, if you go up here to this, you can change the
actual mode from light to dark.
We've got a scaling button right here, this second one down.
So we can change the scale of our castor.
This button right here allows you to add MIDI inputs and you can pin
it to the top of your screen.
So it stays on top.
So if I open OBS, you can see our castor stays on top, but if I
unclick the pin and then it'll go back behind the other stuff.
So that works really, really well.
And then this one down here allows us to configure ground central
audio devices.
Now, if we go up here to our sound, you can see that you have to have
castor selected when you do this so that you can set the audio inputs
and everything inside castor.
And that's the only thing you kind of need to remember if it's not
working right, just go up there and set the audio to castor and you're
all set.
In the center here we have our add buttons.
So you can add any application, that's open on your computer.
Then we have a microphone input and we have an other audio input thing
down here for any other audio inputs that you may have.
These buttons right here will allow you to actually turn these on or
off.
So they will come through your headphones or your speakers, or go out
to your stream, depending upon if that's how you want it to output to
your stream.
You can go in here and select which output you want your headphones to
be.
So you make sure that you have the right ones if you're going to
monitor the session through castor.
You can mute and unmute your inputs right here as well individually.
And then if we go up here to settings, we've got the same thing
scaling, and you can add a bunch of tracks, even up to unlimited, and
you can see all of them.
It allows you to set your latency.
Obviously, latency is one of those things that people find to be very,
very important.
Then you have sample rates.
So you can change up your sample rate if you want it higher or lower,
the ground control audio device, which is the same thing we looked at
before from the shortcut in the menu.
You've got your recording settings, which is really cool.
You can set up a lot of different things in here to allow everything
to record.
And I will show you how that works in a moment, you've got your MIDI
settings and your hot keys.
This is a good one.
Cause this means you can configure it up with your stream deck.
You can go in here and set hotkeys for anything to adjust volume and
all that kind of stuff, and even set it up for your soundboard.
So you'd never really have to come back into castor if you don't want
to, you can easily adjust the volume with hotkeys or your stream deck.
It's really awesome.
All you have to do is click the plus over here on the right, and
you're going to set your hot keys.
Now there's also a shortcut right here.
This little flaming thing takes you right to your hot keys it's right
on the menu.
If we go back into settings, we can check for updates.
We can delete devices from ground control.
We can go in here and change our preferences.
And then there is the licensing piece.
Now, if we wanted to record, we just click this button and it records.
And this records in a very, very special way.
If we open up the folder after we recorded something, I'll just drag
it over here.
We can open up that folder and look at this.
So it recorded the full stream together, and then it recorded each
individual input after plugins.
And you can set it up so it does it before plugins or after, and it
will record each individual input separately, which is awesome.
This is the perfect thing for remixing your live streams together.
Or if you're going to do a podcast or something like that, you're
going to get perfect audio individually from each one.
Now when you download castor, it does come with a 14 day trial of all
the features, and then you can continue with the free license.
But if you do decide to upgrade, I think it's well worth it.
Now, there is this update button up here at the top.
If you have an unregistered version, you can just click on that.
And it brings you to the upgrade now, and this software is only 50
bucks.
Literally changes the way that you can stream in Mac for $50.
And it's only one time.
And then when you get your license, you can go down here to the
license activation, we'll drag this out.
All you have to do is put your email address and your license code in
there and activate it.
It's really that easy.
And it's so cheap.
One time 50 bucks, and you can absolutely control your audio.
And when you hear about the features that are coming for this well,
you're going to flip.
Things that are going to be added to the app soon are pretty exciting
too.
There's going to be plugins for noise reduction that you can apply to
any input.
And it's truly amazing.
It's going to have multiple presets that will run off an AI that's
designed for specific types of noise reduction.
So if you want to run that air conditioning or your fan during the
live stream, there's going to be a setting to remove it.
Road noise, no problem, no more guessing or playing for hours with a
bunch of nebulous settings, there's already a button for it.
It's epic.
And there's also going to be a voice changer soon.
And it's for mac of course.
And you know, there aren't a viable options out there for Mac voice
changes right now.
So that's really exciting.
Be sure to click the link in the description to check it out.
There is a 14 day trial to check out the fullest version.
And after the trial, the free version does a lot of the things that
you already want as well.
I'm going to be doing a video outlining what you can do in the free
version really soon.
And if you want to see how hard I pushed the M one Mac book pro to
test it for streaming, you should check this video out.
Big thanks to ginger audio for sponsoring this video, you can find
their links and links to all the other sponsors that support this
channel in the description below, under sponsors.
I couldn't possibly do this without them or you so thanks.
And if you're always looking for tools, tips, and tricks to help make
you a better live streamer or YouTuber, subscribe to the channel.
My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see in the next one.