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title: 'The BEST Voicemeeter SETUP GUIDE on YouTube!'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7jw0uNE4'
video_id: 'pEd7jw0uNE4'
date: 2026-06-14
duration_sec: 239
---

# The BEST Voicemeeter SETUP GUIDE on YouTube!

> Source: [The BEST Voicemeeter SETUP GUIDE on YouTube!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7jw0uNE4)

## Summary

Voicemeeter is a powerful but confusing audio routing app for PC. This guide simplifies setting up Voicemeeter Banana to separate computer audio, communication audio, and microphone inputs, with an optional step to isolate music using EarTrumpet and virtual audio cables.

### Key Points

- **Voicemeeter Versions** [0:00] — Voicemeeter installs three versions: base, Banana (most popular), and Potato (largest). This guide uses Banana, but the setup works similarly across versions.
- **Set Output Device** [0:44] — Select your headphones as the A1 output device (use WDM source). Ensure virtual inputs have A1 toggled on.
- **Change Playback Devices** [1:15] — In Windows Sound Control Panel, set 'Voicemeeter Input' as default playback device and 'Voicemeeter Aux Input' as default communications device.
- **Separate Audio Streams** [1:50] — Computer audio (games, etc.) goes through Voicemeeter Input; communication audio (Discord) goes through Voicemeeter Aux Input. Label them for clarity.
- **Set Up Microphone** [2:13] — Select your mic on hardware input 1, disable A1 to avoid hearing yourself. Choose B1 or B2 output; B2 is recommended for mic output.
- **Set Default Recording Device** [2:38] — In Sound Control Panel Recording tab, set 'Voicemeeter Aux Output' as default device (or 'Voicemeeter Output' if using B1).
- **Separate Music Audio** [3:22] — Install EarTrumpet and virtual audio cables. Assign music app to virtual audio cable via EarTrumpet, then select that cable on hardware input 2 in Voicemeeter.

### Conclusion

With Voicemeeter Banana configured, you can independently control game audio, chat audio, and microphone levels. The optional music separation step further enhances control using EarTrumpet and virtual cables.

## Transcript

voicemeeter is widely known as one of
the best pc apps to use but it's so
confusing that people don't even bother
using it today i'm gonna make this app
seem so easy you won't even break a
sweat after installing voicemeeter you
will have three versions of the app
installed voicemeeter which is the base
version of the app with minimal tools
voicemeeter banana which is the most
popular version of the app and
voicemeeter potato which is the
granddaddy of all three and bigger than
the rest
that's what she said we will be using
voice meter banana in this video but
don't worry if you want to use a
different version of the app it works
the same way for all three just with
more or less virtual sources we will
also use the virtual audio cables which
is available for free on voicemeeter's
website it's very important that you
listen to what i'm about to say the
first thing we're going to do is set our
default playback device on our computer
but before you do it watch me do it
because you will lose audio from this
video when you change the source so you
need to know what you're doing prior to
switching the source over first let's
set up our output device on the top
right of the app is the a1 source this
is where we can select our output device
i will select my headphones with the wdm
source next i want to make sure that
virtual inputs here have the a1 source
toggled on now let's change our playback
devices right click the speaker icon on
your desktop select the sound settings
and then select the sound control panel
in the playback tab we will right click
the voicemeeter input source and make
this our default device after that we
will right-click the voicemeeter aux
input source and make this our default
communications device once we've done
this our computer audio will be playing
on the voicemeeter input source and our
communication audio will be playing on
the voicemeeter aux input source this
means you will need to set the audio
settings in apps like discord to default
at least that's the easiest way to do it
the reason for this is we're separating
our computer audio from our
communication audio so that means apps
like discord or communication apps will
play through the voicemeeter aux input
and that means other apps like video
games will play through the voicemeeter
input to make things easier let's change
the labels of the inputs to desktop and
communications by right-clicking the
titles to make sure we know what they
are next we can set up our microphone
left click on the first hardware input
and select your microphone source you'll
want to disable the a1 button on this
input so you aren't listening to
yourself on the a1 source that we
selected earlier for the microphone
output you have two options you can
select b1 or b2 b1 is the voicemeter
output and b2 is the voicemeter aux
output i like to use b2 so that's what i
will select in the sound control panel i
will go to the recording tab locate the
voicemeeter aux output source and set
this to the default device if you're
using the b1 source instead be sure to
select the voicemeeter output instead of
the voicemeeter aux output now that
we've set the default recording device
on our computer we can go into every
single one of our apps audio settings
and set the input device to default this
will default to using the correct
voicemeter source that we set up this
also means that all the sources on
voicemeeter with b2 toggled will also
play through your microphone so make
sure you only select b2 on inputs you
want playing from your mic you can
adjust the mix of the output sources
from the master section in the bottom
right now we can take it even a step
further and separate our music audio on
voicemeeter as well to do this we'll
need to install ear trumpet and the
virtual audio cables that i mentioned
earlier on the second hardware input of
voice meter let's select the virtual
audio cable let's then open ear trumpet
from our hidden apps find our music app
right click click the arrows and then
select the virtual audio cable if you
don't see your music app on ear trumpet
that's because you need to be playing
audio from the app in order for ear
trumpet to recognize it steelseries made
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won't regret it thank you so much for
watching and i'll catch you in the next
one peace