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title: 'Play Music Through Mic AND Talk (Voicemeeter Guide April 2026)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=slmY82ZUZYY'
video_id: 'slmY82ZUZYY'
date: 2026-06-14
duration_sec: 301
---

# Play Music Through Mic AND Talk (Voicemeeter Guide April 2026)

> Source: [Play Music Through Mic AND Talk (Voicemeeter Guide April 2026)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=slmY82ZUZYY)

## Summary

This video provides a concise guide on using Voicemeeter to play any audio (music, browser sounds) through your microphone while still being able to talk. It covers setup, routing, and configuration for apps like Discord and OBS.

### Key Points

- **Goal** [0:00] — Play any audio through your mic so others hear it while you talk.
- **Voicemeeter Installation** [0:21] — Any version (standard, Banana, Potato) works; steps are the same.
- **Add and Rename Mic** [0:49] — Left-click to add mic (WDM), right-click to rename it 'Mic'.
- **Set Headphones Output** [1:01] — Click A1 in top right, select MME, then choose your headphones.
- **Disable A1 on Mic Column** [1:17] — Prevents hearing yourself (feedback) by disabling the A1 button on the mic column.
- **Route App Audio to Voicemeeter** [1:34] — Open Windows Volume Mixer, find the app (e.g., Spotify), change its output to 'VoiceMeeter Input'.
- **A and B Buttons Explained** [2:12] — A = what you hear, B = what others hear. Disable A to mute for yourself, disable B to mute for others.
- **Select Voicemeeter Output in Apps** [2:51] — In Discord/OBS, select 'VoiceMeeter Output' (B1) as mic input to send combined audio.
- **System Sound Settings** [3:01] — Disable extra Voicemeeter playback/recording devices (1-5) to reduce clutter. Ensure headphones are default device.
- **Discord and Browser Tips** [4:11] — In Discord, use 'Studio Mode' to prevent audio cutting. For browsers, disable certain flags (list shown) to avoid echo cancellation.

### Conclusion

With Voicemeeter, you can easily route any audio through your mic while talking, using simple settings in the app and Windows volume mixer.

## Transcript

All right, let's make this short and
sweet here. So, you want to play music.
You want to play your browser audio. You
want to play any audio through your mic
so then people can hear it coming from
your mic and you can talk at the same
time.
All right, you have voice meter
installed. Either the regular one like
this, you either have banana or potato.
Doesn't matter which one. Whatever one
you downloaded, you can open this one,
follow along, and then open the other
one you want to use. It doesn't matter
which one. They all do the same thing.
Uh if you all the things that we do in
this one will apply to banana or or
potato, doesn't matter. First things, uh
add your mic here. WDM. You just left
click. Then you can also rightclick and
rename it to mic.
Good. Um,
then we can come over here to A1 in the
top right. You can just click it. MME
and then whatever your headphones are.
Sweet.
You can probably hear yourself right
now. That's probably Oh. Oh, yes. Now I
can hear myself. Disable the A or A1
button on your microphone column
because that is going to your headphones
right up here. So disable that. You no
longer hear yourself.
Then we will
type the word mixer into the Windows
search bar.
You're going to find the app you want to
play through your mic. So in my case, I
want to play Spotify through my mic. Uh
and we're going to have it change the
output. We're going to change the output
to voice meter input, which is right
here. as you can see. So, you want to
click that. Perfect. You can rename this
column to music like I did
and we can test it out real.
There we go. You hear music?
Cool. You don't want to hear it, disable
the A. You don't want other people to
hear it, disable the B. So, the A is the
A is is what you hear. The B's are what
other people hear. So, if I have B
enabled on both my mic and the music,
then you will hear both. As you can
already tell, that's what's happening
right now. So, like in OBS, the
microphone I selected is B1, which is
this. And you'll see that in better,
you'll see that better in potato and
banana because it actually says B1. But,
uh, yeah, B1's the mic you'd select in
Discord, in the game, wherever.
And now you're sending both music and
your mic together combined into wherever
you want to throw it. Um,
another important thing, type change
system sounds into the Windows search
bar. Open that.
And since you just downloaded a new
program, you're just going to want to
I'll just tell you to disable one
through five here. don't need them.
Playback recording.
You can do the same thing. Just disable
one through five. Just get rid of some
of the clutter. Go back to playback.
You just need to make sure your
headphones are the default device of
Windows. Like you always have, we don't
need to route any other audio through
voice meter if this is all you're trying
to do.
So yeah, you just set it as default.
Good to go.
Um,
what else is there? So, yeah, same thing
with uh browsers. It'll show up the
browser here and you just change the
output. Good to go.
Um,
so yeah, if you select it in Discord,
input devices, voice meter outbones
like you always have. Uh, now if you
don't want it Discord to cut it out,
select studio mode. Um, in browsers, if
you're trying to play, like say you're
doing Omega or something, and you're
trying to play music through your mic,
then you might want to disable some of
the
uh these flags, I guess they're called.
I don't know. Um, you can pause the
video and just read this. And then this
these are the ones you disable. So,
that's for Chrome and Edge. Um,
what else? Anything else?
I think that's it.
Uh
yeah, that's how you play anything
through your mic
easily.
You just got voice meter. So, hope that
works.
See you.