[0:00] if you're using a pc to make music
[0:03] stream games and possibly stream your
[0:05] music
[0:06] you've probably heard about voice meter
[0:09] don't worry
[0:10] i'm here to help
[0:16] hello heathens thank you so much for
[0:18] joining the channel i'm jd blood i'm a
[0:20] guitarist
[0:20] a goth a gamer and a giant nerd
[0:24] and for the purposes of this video we're
[0:26] gonna be giant nerds together
[0:28] i'm assuming you want to use voice meter
[0:31] to get
[0:32] your audio from your microphone
[0:36] and your guitar into your daw
[0:39] plug-in whatever else you want to use
[0:42] and then automatically out
[0:43] into something like obs for streaming
[0:46] you're in luck
[0:47] i have decided to task me with getting
[0:50] you there
[0:52] for this experiment you're gonna need to
[0:53] download voicemeeter potato
[0:56] the link is in the description you are
[0:58] going to need
[0:59] access to your sound cards routing as in
[1:03] your sample rate and buffer size
[1:06] and then just to make sure that we've
[1:08] done all this correctly you are going to
[1:09] need any plug-in or daw
[1:11] that you may want to route this to okay
[1:14] let's get started i'm spoiler alerting
[1:17] here
[1:17] just a little bit because i want to make
[1:20] sure that you've got
[1:21] everything that you need now when you
[1:23] install voicemeeter potato
[1:25] i'm going to assume you know how to
[1:27] install software
[1:29] just a guess please do actually restart
[1:33] your computer
[1:34] because it does help potato actually
[1:37] take over your audio i don't know the
[1:39] scientifics behind it
[1:40] but it totally does so what you have
[1:42] here is
[1:43] the three things that i mentioned you
[1:45] need you have in my case the 2i2
[1:48] routing sample rate buffer size
[1:51] you have the actual voicemeeter potato
[1:54] screen
[1:54] that is intimidating as balls but we
[1:57] will get there
[1:58] and then in the back here you have a
[1:59] plug-in i happen to love stl tones so
[2:01] i've got my tone hub back there we'll
[2:03] get to that in just a minute
[2:04] first things first what you want to do
[2:06] is actually set up
[2:08] where your audio is outputting
[2:11] this seems kind of counter-intuitive
[2:13] because you'd want to make sure
[2:15] that you're getting the inputs right as
[2:16] you can see
[2:18] my voice is making that view meter move
[2:21] but we got to get that to go somewhere
[2:24] up here
[2:24] are your outputs you can see hardware
[2:27] out
[2:28] it tells you sample rate and buffer size
[2:31] and here it also tells you that i have
[2:33] chosen my focusrite usb
[2:34] ausio which is what the 2i2
[2:37] uses when it's installed on a pc how you
[2:40] pick it is you simply go into your a1
[2:43] and scroll don't worry so much we're not
[2:47] going to use
[2:48] mme or ks or wdm those are all windows
[2:51] specific we want asia
[2:53] so you're definitely going to pick your
[2:55] focusrite
[2:56] yours will vary of course whatever sound
[2:58] card you happen to have
[3:00] pick the main asio driver that you're
[3:03] expecting
[3:03] you can pick any alternative number of
[3:06] outputs as well
[3:07] i used to for a while have my a2 as
[3:09] speakers and then i routed my speakers a
[3:11] little differently
[3:13] don't worry about that you can not
[3:16] relevant to this conversation
[3:17] so first things first you have to figure
[3:19] out and i notice i got it wrong
[3:21] look at that we're going to correct it
[3:22] together you have to output
[3:24] you have to get your mic input going
[3:27] into the proper input or your mic output
[3:29] going into the property you know what i
[3:30] mean so we're gonna go into the menu
[3:34] i'll get to this in just a second
[3:36] because that's very important this is
[3:38] also very important
[3:39] this is not very important but we'll go
[3:41] in order so you go into your system
[3:43] settings
[3:45] and here you will see
[3:48] oh no wonder it sounded like trash okay
[3:51] i don't know why this happened whenever
[3:53] there's a windows update
[3:55] potato banana voice meter og
[3:59] they all screw up this is not how
[4:01] they're supposed to be
[4:02] so you can right click to back that off
[4:06] and then you can what this does
[4:10] is it maps your microphone input on my
[4:13] 2i2 which is a two physical input
[4:15] i have my mic on the left input and my
[4:18] guitar
[4:18] or instrument on the right input so what
[4:20] should happen
[4:21] is your inputs should also match well
[4:24] you have
[4:25] five inputs that's why it says in one
[4:27] two three four five
[4:29] those all work up here one
[4:32] two three four five there's your math
[4:34] lesson for the day
[4:36] so your input one it really doesn't
[4:38] matter if you do stereo or mono
[4:40] i prefer mono and then you'll see i also
[4:42] have it labeled mono because i'm
[4:44] really anal about this and then your
[4:46] input 2
[4:48] which in my case is my instrument you
[4:51] just click it up
[4:52] to 2 and away you go and if you were
[4:54] looking at the screen you saw
[4:56] tonehub there actually shift a little
[4:58] bit this is a really great example of
[5:00] how
[5:01] things can screw up and i'm happy it did
[5:04] because now i've got it correct and now
[5:07] i can start to go on with everything
[5:09] else the other main thing you want to do
[5:12] is whatever
[5:13] you label here on your on your
[5:16] instrument
[5:17] input whether it's 1 2 7 20 who cares
[5:21] is make sure that first of all you're
[5:24] down here at the patch
[5:25] inserts this is key this is how we get
[5:27] it to go
[5:28] into your plug-ins daws whatever
[5:31] and fully route the signal if you don't
[5:35] highlight these
[5:36] and i'll show you what i mean they will
[5:39] not take the signal back from the
[5:42] plug-in
[5:42] daw etc etc you won't have real-time
[5:45] monitoring
[5:46] in fact as in my experience you won't
[5:48] have any monitoring
[5:50] so we've highlighted right two on input
[5:53] two
[5:54] so my input to right is highlighted
[5:58] what that does is it transports the
[5:59] signal these ones here
[6:01] in four left and right is kind of a
[6:05] little trick
[6:06] i picked up i won't go over that in this
[6:08] video
[6:09] but this is wonderful for
[6:13] setting a master track output
[6:16] on your daw and having it come back in
[6:19] through voice me that's all the spoiler
[6:22] i'm going to give you basically we need
[6:24] here
[6:25] also for whatever reason you don't need
[6:28] to do that
[6:29] for your microphone i have not figured
[6:31] out why i cannot explain it please just
[6:34] go with me
[6:38] now we have everything set up
[6:42] one thing you may notice when potato
[6:43] comes in is that these
[6:46] sample rates are insanely high
[6:49] do not change them do not be alarmed i
[6:51] don't know why
[6:52] sometimes they will default to the
[6:54] lowest which is 384
[6:56] and that sucks it ruins your audio
[6:59] just leave them at the highest one and
[7:02] never think about it again
[7:03] so right now you can see obviously that
[7:06] my latency is pretty high
[7:10] this will take you a good half an hour
[7:13] to figure out
[7:15] where your compromise is if you are
[7:18] using this application primarily for
[7:20] voice
[7:21] then 192 is a pretty reasonable buffer
[7:23] size
[7:24] and it won't matter nearly at all
[7:27] it'll still get you through voice meter
[7:30] into whatever you need and into
[7:32] i'm going to use obs because i'm
[7:33] assuming that's what you're using for
[7:34] streaming for the musicians in the crowd
[7:37] i understand this is driving you a
[7:39] little twitchy because it drove me a
[7:40] little twitchy
[7:41] i went from using about 16 to 32
[7:45] to get the maximum chug up to 192.
[7:48] now the scientists tell me that the
[7:50] human ear
[7:51] can't really determine the latency
[7:54] difference between 32 and 192 because
[7:58] that difference is about two
[7:59] milliseconds
[8:00] or less than two milliseconds
[8:03] to about eight milliseconds round trip
[8:07] i don't know if i'm being an uber nerd
[8:10] but i really can hear the difference so
[8:12] be aware that you will sacrifice latency
[8:15] in your music for this configuration to
[8:19] work
[8:19] it's not going to affect your technique
[8:21] at all i don't find
[8:23] it's that different when i'm playing
[8:26] but it is something to keep in mind and
[8:28] it's actually one of the main negatives
[8:29] i have about this
[8:31] so once you've set up your sound card
[8:33] and you'll know you've set up your sound
[8:34] card there won't be any crackles there
[8:36] won't be any weird distortion
[8:38] there won't be any artifacting
[8:41] it takes time i can't tell you what your
[8:44] magic number is
[8:45] you have to experiment so once you have
[8:47] that down
[8:48] you never have to set it again so we can
[8:51] get rid of that
[8:52] now how you're hearing me i have to go
[8:54] backward a little bit here how you're
[8:55] hearing me now
[8:57] is a direct result of this b3
[9:01] you can think of the a channels in your
[9:04] input strips
[9:05] as auditions so anything you want to
[9:09] monitor
[9:10] you can monitor of course so it doesn't
[9:13] matter to me because i'm not monitoring
[9:15] through cans and i don't have my
[9:16] speakers on
[9:17] but theoretically since my
[9:20] a1 output is my main sound card
[9:24] i would definitely want to generally
[9:26] monitor that
[9:27] and then you can see over here on the
[9:29] monitoring these are the outputs
[9:32] you can see that i am now mimicking the
[9:34] two meters
[9:35] the same is true for my guitar i
[9:38] definitely
[9:38] want to hear that so i would just click
[9:41] that on
[9:42] and again if you want that to come out
[9:43] through any of the other
[9:45] outputs that you may have selected
[9:47] through your choice
[9:48] all you have to do is click the
[9:50] corresponding button
[9:52] simple as that the b channels are
[9:55] basically broadcasting
[9:57] so this is where you route your
[10:00] final audio to wherever it is
[10:04] it's going be that your daw your plug-in
[10:07] straight into obs you know choice is
[10:10] yours
[10:12] this concept took me a little bit to get
[10:14] over but these are actually your b
[10:16] inputs up here bio this is actually
[10:19] called aux but i've
[10:20] already labeled it for my use for chat
[10:23] and then pc audio because you can
[10:25] actually route
[10:26] your the entirety of every sound your pc
[10:28] makes
[10:29] through voicemeeter useful for gamers
[10:32] useful for streamers not at all
[10:34] practical for music making so
[10:37] use at your own risk i'm not really
[10:39] gonna get into it the concept that took
[10:40] me a while to get into
[10:42] was the fact that these are not hard and
[10:45] fast
[10:46] like this input does not necessarily
[10:48] have to be that output
[10:50] and that took me way too long once i
[10:52] figured it out this all came together
[10:54] this is why this video is taking so long
[10:57] so b3 is my vaio 3
[11:01] output this is important when you're
[11:03] going into
[11:05] honestly just obs it doesn't matter
[11:07] about anything else really i don't think
[11:09] i'm probably wrong on that correct me in
[11:11] the comments so b2
[11:13] then becomes my aux i don't know why i
[11:16] think of
[11:17] guitar as an aux cable it's literally
[11:20] the thing in your car that you can plug
[11:21] your
[11:22] your friend's android into because
[11:23] they're too cheap to have an iphone and
[11:24] have carplay
[11:26] that's basically how i think of it so
[11:28] then your guitar
[11:29] would be routed through there and if you
[11:31] don't believe me i will show you a
[11:33] demonstration once we log in
[11:35] to the plugin of choice log into the
[11:38] plugin
[11:39] you get what i mean and then b1 i have
[11:41] it on again this is the special channel
[11:44] right here you also see i have spotify
[11:47] or your music
[11:48] app of choice and you can route that
[11:51] through here i highly recommend that
[11:53] for streamers or if you're the type of
[11:56] person who
[11:57] learns a song on a stream and you're
[11:59] chugging away and you want to just
[12:01] repeat and get that copyright
[12:03] demonetization going
[12:05] this is a way you can do that so your
[12:07] audience can hear what you're listening
[12:08] to
[12:09] they can hear your pause and rewind and
[12:11] all that other good stuff it's a great
[12:13] way to get that going
[12:14] and again that's routed through a1 and
[12:16] if i were
[12:17] to route it i think i would honestly put
[12:20] that on the b1 channel as well
[12:22] your mileage may vary not really
[12:24] important you're here for the guitar
[12:26] so we have our guitar it is set up it's
[12:29] broadcasting
[12:30] through the aux and we also have i'll do
[12:33] a little reminder here
[12:36] the insert this is key to getting it
[12:39] into your plug-in one more step before
[12:42] we go into the plug-in i'm going to show
[12:43] you that menu
[12:44] auto restart audio engine although voice
[12:47] meter is arguably
[12:49] the best program for audio routing
[12:52] in windows it is also one of the worst
[12:55] sometimes
[12:56] you'll hear a crackle a blur or that
[12:59] weird distortion
[13:00] and what voice meter can do is
[13:01] automatically correct itself
[13:03] highly recommend keeping this on you
[13:06] will lose
[13:07] like a second or two of audio if you're
[13:09] not monitoring you won't notice
[13:12] but it'll come back and you just have to
[13:15] do a plug-in
[13:15] system tray run at startup this is so
[13:18] that it automatically takes
[13:20] over again this is why i have my pc
[13:22] audio
[13:23] routed over here because as soon as my
[13:26] computer boots up voice meter boots up
[13:28] and it takes control
[13:30] of my audio how i show that since it's
[13:33] in the vaio 3
[13:35] is in your pc sound you can see voice
[13:37] meter vayo3
[13:38] this is all sort of next level stuff you
[13:40] don't have to but i honestly think if
[13:42] you
[13:42] are running your stream and your music
[13:46] all at the same time i think this is the
[13:47] optimal way to do it hook
[13:49] volume key i honestly turn this off i
[13:51] have no idea what the hell this does
[13:53] so whatever it can go away now we need
[13:56] to make sure this is inserted
[13:58] perfect let's go in to our guitar
[14:01] plug-in
[14:02] of choice shall we there's my tone hub i
[14:05] want to move it over here so you are
[14:07] looking at this channel strip
[14:09] and you are looking at the audio i o of
[14:11] your plug-in
[14:12] many plug-ins ios look very similar so
[14:16] this shouldn't be too difficult to
[14:18] decipher for your own end
[14:20] you can mute the audio if you want i
[14:22] actually like keeping it on because that
[14:24] feedback lets me know i'm alive
[14:26] so your audio device type of course
[14:28] windows audio trash direct sound trash
[14:31] azio it's what we're using the device
[14:35] spoiler alert here you can see you can
[14:37] just go through your sound card as you
[14:39] normally would if you weren't
[14:40] doing the voicemeeter setup reroute seo
[14:44] is
[14:44] for a different video because as soon as
[14:46] i finish this video and i like the
[14:48] quality
[14:49] i'm never using the setup again spoiler
[14:51] alert
[14:52] and then you have your voicemeeter
[14:53] inputs we highlighted that
[14:55] insert patch for a reason
[14:58] and it's this reason right here you use
[15:01] your potato
[15:02] insert virtual clicky clicky
[15:05] you have to make sure that you're set up
[15:07] correctly now even if you have the mono
[15:09] input
[15:10] make it a stereo output and this is on
[15:14] whatever channel you want you can see i
[15:16] can
[15:16] scroll
[15:19] down to input 8. so whatever input
[15:22] channel you have
[15:23] make sure that it matches that stereo
[15:25] output and then of course your input
[15:27] channel
[15:28] mine is the mono right on the second
[15:30] channel so there is a mono write
[15:32] on the second channel sample rate
[15:34] matches
[15:36] one second sample rate matches
[15:40] buffer size matches your plug-in will
[15:42] probably lie to you
[15:44] this is four milliseconds one way so
[15:46] therefore you double it it's an eight
[15:47] millisecond round trip
[15:50] again human ear can't decipher less than
[15:52] 10 milliseconds
[15:54] maybe i'm a nerd because i'm certainly
[15:55] not an audiophile
[15:57] i can hear the difference but this is
[15:59] the sacrifice we make to get this going
[16:01] pop that down and then once you close
[16:04] out of here
[16:05] you should be able to hear
[16:08] your guitar if i turn it on
[16:14] and voila you now have your guitar
[16:18] routed from your headphones per
[16:22] se or your speakers depending on what
[16:24] your sound card offers
[16:25] or your external speakers or your
[16:27] monitor or your printer
[16:29] or whatever you have that broadcasting
[16:32] to your obs which i'll do in another
[16:36] video this was just to get here because
[16:38] of that
[16:39] insert you have that audio coming
[16:42] in from voice meter so from your
[16:46] guitar into voice meter into your plugin
[16:49] and that little insert highlight button
[16:52] takes the processed audio and pops it
[16:55] back
[16:55] into potato and then back into your ears
[16:59] and then wherever you decide to
[17:01] broadcast it it goes as well
[17:03] so that is the quick and dirty setup
[17:06] it ain't pretty i still hate the latency
[17:09] once i'm done editing this video
[17:12] i will probably never use this setup
[17:14] again i have already found
[17:16] a better slash lower latency way to make
[17:20] all of this happen and i really think
[17:23] it's the better alternative but
[17:26] if you are in the voice meter ecosystem
[17:29] and if you
[17:31] are okay with the settings presented it
[17:33] works
[17:34] this setup legitimately works it's what
[17:36] i'm recording this video on right now
[17:38] make sure if you have any questions to
[17:40] leave them down below
[17:42] i think i did a pretty thorough job but
[17:43] i'm always open to helping i'm not going
[17:45] to delete
[17:46] voicemeeter i'm just not going to use it
[17:47] again if i have made your life better by
[17:50] making it more difficult for showing you
[17:52] this
[17:52] throw a like on the video it helps more
[17:54] than you could possibly imagine
[17:56] and if you are watching this without
[17:58] being subscribed consider
[18:00] subscribing i will do more guitaring i
[18:02] will do more
[18:03] gaming i will do more gothing i think
[18:07] and i will definitely do more giant nerd
[18:09] stuff like this because this has been
[18:11] hella fun for me
[18:12] either way if you've stuck around this
[18:13] long thank you
[18:15] so very much from the bottom of my black
[18:17] little heart and remember
[18:19] be safe be consensual and if you can't
[18:22] be good
[18:22] well then sweet satan on a pogo stick be
[18:26] good at