[0:00] so voice meter had some changes recently
[0:01] so I'm going to go through what's
[0:03] changed the setup and some different
[0:05] routing options that are available to
[0:07] you in this
[0:13] video hey guys what's going on I'm beat
[0:15] Walker and welcome back to another video
[0:17] today we're going over the 2024 version
[0:20] of voice meter either vo meter banana vo
[0:23] meter potato whatever it is you're using
[0:26] I'm going to go through some of the
[0:27] changes that's happened recently and
[0:29] some of the confusion with these videos
[0:32] and how they're outdated they're sort of
[0:35] outdated but not really for the most
[0:37] part it's just a routing that
[0:38] everybody's confused on so I'm going to
[0:40] go over all of that so I'm going to
[0:41] break this up into a few different parts
[0:44] the first part I'm going to talk about
[0:45] some of the changes and some of the
[0:47] routing options that you'll have
[0:49] available to you now second part is
[0:51] going to be the setup how to set it up
[0:53] to your computer how to get everything
[0:55] started for your routing then the last
[0:58] part of course is the routing
[1:00] which probably the most confusing part
[1:02] but I'm going to try to simplify it to
[1:04] what most people will use as a routing
[1:06] and then give you some other options
[1:07] that you might use or stuff that be
[1:11] available if you want to expand your
[1:12] setup all right let's get into it all
[1:14] right so we'll go through this really
[1:15] quickly cuz you may or may not not care
[1:18] about what the updates are but this did
[1:20] update in February so I recently went
[1:23] through some of the
[1:25] updates myself and kind of got
[1:27] familiarized with it so I'll explain
[1:29] this as best as POS possible what you
[1:31] need to know and what the important
[1:32] things are uh for you kind of one of the
[1:36] main things is they stabilize some of
[1:38] the drivers with Windows 10 and Windows
[1:40] Windows 11 so what that means is the old
[1:43] system was using a old set of Windows
[1:46] and you'd have a lot of audio problems
[1:47] people were just having audio problems I
[1:49] think I've went over a few of them in my
[1:51] other videos what they did to stabilize
[1:53] that out which is really really good I
[1:55] haven't had any problems so far and I
[1:57] hopefully you won't either from now on
[2:01] I'm not going to worry about that
[2:02] internal clock not worried about that
[2:04] either so you can select different audio
[2:07] devices now um it's just a new way of
[2:10] selecting the devices Vice the old way
[2:13] and it's separated between basically wdm
[2:17] and MMA in the multimedia which is
[2:19] typically the ones we use so you'll see
[2:21] that when I explain it in voice meter
[2:24] when we take a look at it Vio extensions
[2:27] this is similar to the old
[2:31] viio that we had it's just separated now
[2:34] which I'm going to show you on the
[2:36] different drivers which is this part
[2:38] which is the different drivers that you
[2:40] have available to you
[2:42] now uh and then same with the output
[2:44] drivers so you have input and output
[2:46] drivers available to you now to select
[2:49] differently again we're going to go
[2:51] through all of this but I just want you
[2:52] to know that you will not have just one
[2:55] or two selections you will have multiple
[2:58] selections and I think that's the
[2:59] biggest confusion that I've had in my
[3:02] Discord and questions which audio driver
[3:04] do I select in and out we're going to go
[3:07] through that and it's actually pretty
[3:09] nice so that voice meter so so you have
[3:14] different drivers in vo meter banana and
[3:17] potato available for you so potato just
[3:20] gives you more extensions which majority
[3:22] of people will not need I do like
[3:25] potato for various reasons I may do
[3:28] another video on why I think potatoes
[3:30] just better for streamers and people who
[3:33] are serious if you're just starting out
[3:35] and you want something simple and free
[3:37] voice meter banana is going be for you
[3:40] uh if you want to been a little bit more
[3:41] expensive and you know with more
[3:44] controls essentially you can use potato
[3:47] pay a little donation to them and uh get
[3:50] full access pretty simple so that's
[3:52] going to be pretty much it before I dig
[3:55] into the setup I'm G to show this and if
[3:58] you want to take a screenshot you can
[4:00] but I wanted
[4:02] to kind of
[4:05] simplify the routing that you can
[4:08] use in voice meter okay and this this is
[4:12] a
[4:12] perfect snapshot this is a perfect
[4:15] snapshot of you know how you'd set up
[4:18] voice meter essentially you have your
[4:21] microphone TV isn't is one that I'm just
[4:24] not going to use I'm put it going to put
[4:26] a Discord over here but this could be an
[4:30] external let's say Xbox PlayStation if
[4:33] you have a capture card that's where
[4:36] this would come in as a hardware device
[4:37] instead of a TV nobody's really using a
[4:39] TV so I'd have my internal microphone or
[4:43] you can have a another microphone that
[4:46] you use let's say a uh like I'm using a
[4:50] roadter right now you can use a USB with
[4:52] a roadter and then Discord so I'm just
[4:56] kind of giving you some examples of what
[4:58] that would look like or you have your M
[5:00] PlayStation 5 Xbox Discord internally
[5:04] using that cable
[5:05] output and then your all your audio
[5:08] stuff coming from like YouTube Spotify
[5:12] Etc you know if you're using Skype which
[5:15] Skype this is kind of updated in terms
[5:17] of Skype or maybe not maybe people use
[5:19] zoom um but for the most part it'll be
[5:22] your spotifi and then all your YouTube
[5:24] stuff gameplay audio Etc so this could
[5:27] probably be your gameplay audio and you
[5:30] could actually split this up now which
[5:31] is cool um whereas before they're kind
[5:34] of integrated you could split them up as
[5:36] a little bit difficult but now they've
[5:38] made it a lot easier to do that and then
[5:40] outputs obviously your a1s and
[5:43] everything is going to be your
[5:45] headphones headset and then you could
[5:46] push it out to some speakers if you
[5:48] wanted to or um an additional set of
[5:51] headphones let's say you're doing a
[5:53] podcast you could do that as
[5:56] well and that's your a audio devices and
[5:59] then your bees is basically one of your
[6:02] stof software OBS Etc so yeah this is
[6:06] just a good routing example and then
[6:08] this other example is kind of like how
[6:10] the routing would go from the like let's
[6:14] say you have all your A's here selected
[6:17] that's everything you're going to hear
[6:18] from that first audio and then let's say
[6:21] you wanted something just to go out to
[6:24] speakers or that second host like let's
[6:27] say they didn't want to hear themselves
[6:28] say the second host was on this TV line
[6:32] so you'd have your first mic and then
[6:34] the second host's mic or vice versa
[6:37] they'd hear you you'd hear them without
[6:40] hearing yourself that kind of makes
[6:42] sense so another good example again I'll
[6:45] post these
[6:46] two um images down below so you kind of
[6:49] just take a look at them see how you can
[6:51] rout it all right so if you haven't done
[6:53] the installation before or or you're new
[6:57] click the link below or just search vo
[7:00] meter banana there's going to be this
[7:02] download package link here click that
[7:05] it's going to quickly download and then
[7:08] what you're also going to do is come
[7:10] over to this virtual audio cable and
[7:13] then you're going to download this
[7:15] driver pack as well all right so once
[7:18] you have these downloaded you're going
[7:19] to want to install the voice meter as
[7:23] you normally would type yes
[7:25] there okay so I've I already H I already
[7:28] have one installed so I'm not going to
[7:29] going to remove the voice meter but you
[7:32] basically go to the installation here
[7:34] and then click out the VB cable pack
[7:37] you're going to want to extract so you
[7:39] can
[7:41] go extract same
[7:45] area not a big deal all right once that
[7:48] Pack's open you're going to have a
[7:49] regular setup in a 64 majority of people
[7:52] would use the 64 but it depends on your
[7:54] system so you find the right one right
[7:57] click and then make sure you run as
[7:58] administrator on this one the setup on
[8:00] this is just kind of different in terms
[8:03] of um how you want it on your system so
[8:06] click yes there I'm going to install
[8:08] this driver okay all right so once it
[8:12] installs it's going to open this page
[8:14] it's fine don't ignore that you're going
[8:16] to want to restart your system and come
[8:19] right back okay so once you've installed
[8:21] and restarted your computer as you can
[8:23] see I have voice meter up basically
[8:25] where you want to go to find it is click
[8:27] on all apps scroll all the way down to
[8:29] the VB audio folder and then you're
[8:31] going to select either the voice meter
[8:34] banana 64 or if you have potato you can
[8:37] do that as well so I'm going to choose
[8:38] voice meter banana which I already have
[8:40] open here and what you're listening to
[8:42] right now so what I'm going to do is
[8:44] real quick before we get started on
[8:46] voice meter what you're going to want to
[8:47] do is go down here to your sound
[8:49] settings right click there go to sound
[8:53] settings let me bring this over here so
[8:57] once you're in here your output device
[8:59] which what you want what you're going to
[9:00] want to do is make sure you set this to
[9:02] voice meter input so the voice meter
[9:05] input is a little bit different from the
[9:07] way it was before where you're not so
[9:09] before you were getting all your audio
[9:12] from that B1 Channel if anybody
[9:14] remembers sent to voic metor input now
[9:17] it's its own separate virtual input so
[9:19] the if you default it to this the
[9:22] majority of your game sounds your your
[9:25] Spotify anything set up on default will
[9:28] come through that voice meter input now
[9:30] so what you want to do now is just make
[9:33] sure you have it set to voice meter
[9:35] input once you have that your input
[9:39] device uh I have it set to microphone
[9:41] but what you want to do is either set it
[9:43] to vo meter out B2 which is how I have
[9:46] it or B1 I would avoid probably doing B1
[9:50] because the majority of your sounds are
[9:51] going to come through there like all
[9:53] your game sounds and Spotify so you so
[9:56] you're either going to want to keep your
[9:57] microphone on a B1 Channel Channel or B2
[10:00] SE Channel separate so I'll just choose
[10:03] B2 and show you what that looks like
[10:05] here in a little bit all right once you
[10:07] have that set up you want to make sure
[10:09] you go to this more sound settings here
[10:11] at the
[10:12] bottom and the only playback device you
[10:15] should have set on default is this voice
[10:18] meter input so make sure you set it
[10:21] to both the communication device and
[10:24] then to your
[10:25] default now for recording
[10:29] you're going to do the same thing and
[10:31] set it to that
[10:32] B2 so set communication device and make
[10:36] sure it's just default Okay click and
[10:39] then click okay here if you want to
[10:41] check and ensure that these are set to
[10:42] the right Hertz and bit rate you can go
[10:44] here make sure you're selecting the
[10:47] correct studio quality it defaults to 48
[10:50] unless you know you're using a different
[10:51] set of Hertz like 44 for example so 48
[10:56] is what we're going to keep it at make
[10:57] sure everything is set to 4
[10:59] if not you're going to have some
[11:01] problems all right and that is pretty
[11:03] much it for the sound settings so we're
[11:07] going to do is go back into voice meter
[11:10] and as you can see I have my microphone
[11:12] coming in here but basically we're going
[11:14] to start from the left to the right and
[11:16] start up with our stereo inputs so as I
[11:19] explained before the inputs here is
[11:23] either going to be a microphone multiple
[11:25] mics Xbox game sounds uh and then that
[11:29] cable input which we're going to use for
[11:31] Discord so select this input here and of
[11:35] course I'm using the roadter duo so you
[11:37] can select whatever mic you have
[11:39] available to
[11:41] you all right and then you can justjust
[11:43] sound as needed as you can see I have it
[11:46] set to
[11:47] B2 and that's basically just going to
[11:50] give me my mic on a separate Channel
[11:53] which we will set up in OBS
[11:56] shortly all right so for stereo input
[11:59] two what I'm going to do is choose this
[12:02] cable output device um let me name these
[12:05] real quick so I just name this one real
[12:07] quickly
[12:08] mic and then this one will be my
[12:14] Discord and of course we'll set up
[12:16] Discord here when I'm
[12:19] done all right so that's going to be
[12:21] your Discord which is the cable output
[12:23] device there and of course you have
[12:25] additional input devices like I said
[12:27] before you can always add them here so a
[12:29] capture card or anything external that's
[12:31] coming in and you want to capture that
[12:34] sound you can capture it here as well
[12:36] all right so as I said before this ver
[12:39] voice meter input is going to be all of
[12:41] your desktop sounds so for example I'll
[12:45] just play
[12:47] Spotify and bring that down as you can
[12:50] see Spotify plays there on a
[12:53] default and uh I'll pause
[12:57] that and so that's where it's going to
[12:59] be defaulted and same thing goes for
[13:02] like if you're playing sounds from
[13:04] YouTube for
[13:09] example hey guys what's going on I'm be
[13:12] be sure to check out my review on the
[13:13] fif fine uh microphone was really great
[13:16] by the way so anything you know that
[13:19] that you have defaulted is going to come
[13:22] through that voice meter input now this
[13:24] voice meter ax is another input you can
[13:27] use that you can set specifically so if
[13:30] you go back into sound the uh sound
[13:33] settings go to the bottom this volume
[13:36] mixer I can actually
[13:39] select let's say we'll do Spotify I can
[13:43] actually select this voem Ox to come out
[13:47] there specifically if you wanted to so
[13:50] I'll play Spotify
[13:52] [Music]
[13:55] again so as you can see now it's on The
[13:57] Voice meter ax and instead of the
[13:59] original voice meter input that I had
[14:02] before so you can kind of mess around
[14:04] with that mess around with whatever you
[14:06] want to have specifically rename these
[14:08] as you want so if I name this
[14:12] Spotify what's cool about this too is
[14:14] you know as you can see I have volume
[14:16] sliders so I can have this one as you
[14:19] know
[14:21] YouTube if you have some YouTube music
[14:23] or SoundCloud music that's coming
[14:25] through there you can have it on a
[14:27] certain level uh same thing with your
[14:29] game sounds if you just want game sounds
[14:31] you can have them like kind of low or
[14:33] vice versa have the game sounds up and
[14:35] then have your Spotify low however want
[14:37] to do that that's perfectly up to you
[14:40] but it's probably the easiest way to set
[14:42] it up for for most people this will be
[14:45] the way you're setting it up okay so
[14:47] moving up here to the top where you see
[14:50] the A1 A2 and
[14:52] A3 so if you remember in the
[14:54] diagram uh this is going to be like your
[14:56] headphones so what I'm using now is just
[14:58] a set of headphones phones if you have a
[15:00] wireless headset that'll come through
[15:01] there and then the second one could be
[15:04] that set of speakers if you have
[15:06] speakers or if you have a guest on a
[15:10] show you can have you know that route to
[15:12] them as well uh just ensure
[15:15] that for this routing piece if you have
[15:19] an A2 device you want to make sure the
[15:23] A2 selected on everything you want that
[15:26] specific Hardware output to
[15:30] here so you want to make sure your guest
[15:32] hears both um now what I will say is
[15:36] make sure your guest is not hearing
[15:40] themselves and you are not hearing
[15:42] yourselves as well so if I click A1 here
[15:45] I will hear
[15:47] myself obviously you can't hear it but
[15:49] I'll hear myself in my headphones and
[15:51] then vice versa so just kind of
[15:53] something to keep in mind that and
[15:55] that's kind of how that routing chain
[15:57] goes goes from here
[15:59] and then these go all the way to here B
[16:01] and B2 which is basically going to go to
[16:04] your OBS all right so once you have this
[16:07] set up you're ready to move into
[16:10] OBS so let's take a look at OBS sorry
[16:13] about the mirror effect there but kind
[16:15] of the way I have it set up right now uh
[16:18] like I said I have this
[16:19] B2 which is basically going to be this
[16:22] voice meter out B2 which is we selected
[16:24] as our default so that's going to be
[16:27] everything that is coming through that
[16:29] B2 channnel so the only thing coming
[16:32] through b Channel right now is that
[16:34] microphone okay so B2 there and then the
[16:39] B1
[16:40] output is set to the voice meter out B1
[16:45] so you want to make sure when you're
[16:46] adding a source that you're adding a
[16:48] audio input capture for your B1 and
[16:52] B2 and not a output capture the output
[16:56] capture is basically going to be your
[17:00] separate devices so like the voice meter
[17:02] input that I talked about before if you
[17:05] want to separate that Spotify that game
[17:08] sounds Etc you could do that now what
[17:11] you want to make sure you're not doing
[17:13] is duplicating a lot of these so this is
[17:17] I wouldn't do more than three unless you
[17:21] are really familiar and you know how to
[17:24] turn these on and off so just as an
[17:27] example if you're really really wanted
[17:29] to have your
[17:32] microphone your separate
[17:35] Discord and either game Spotify Etc
[17:40] separately you could
[17:42] technically but the way to do that is
[17:46] you'll have obviously your B2 which is a
[17:48] microphone your B1 which is all your
[17:51] Discord game sounds Etc and this voic
[17:55] meter input which is going to be
[17:56] anything coming through here
[17:59] uh you want to make sure you're
[18:00] unchecking the B1 and you'll still be
[18:04] able to hear uh let
[18:11] me so today we're going to be talking
[18:13] about this guy which is the fine
[18:16] k6 and you'll still be able to hear 88
[18:20] microphone so this is a budget friendly
[18:23] microph all these sounds coming through
[18:26] the input Channel without it reading to
[18:29] that
[18:30] B1 okay I know that's might be a little
[18:32] bit confusing but so what the way I have
[18:35] it set up right now
[18:37] is if
[18:40] I you're going to hear duplicate sounds
[18:42] right now which is be a little bit weird
[18:44] but I just want to give you the example
[18:46] of why I'm doing it that way phone that
[18:47] is a USB and XLR
[18:50] microphone so obviously you want to only
[18:53] have one selected so it's your choice on
[18:55] you want not to set this up but what I
[18:57] would do as a starter is just have your
[19:00] B1 and B2 and then if you want to start
[19:03] bringing in a voice meter
[19:05] input uh you can do a separate Cable
[19:09] cable input as well so if I come in here
[19:12] audio input capture let's say I want to
[19:14] have Discord
[19:20] separate and then you could select that
[19:23] cable
[19:25] output so now
[19:29] I would unselect it here and then
[19:31] unselect this so I have
[19:34] Discord I
[19:36] have any voice metor input and then uh
[19:40] you know all your game audio and stuff
[19:41] like that going to be
[19:43] one but for now I'll keep it pretty
[19:46] simple I'll just delete these remove
[19:50] that and remove
[19:53] that and voice meter output B1 B2
[19:59] and it works
[20:00] perfectly with just the way we have it
[20:02] set up here okay so now moving over to
[20:06] Discord uh when you come in Discord
[20:08] you're going to want to go to this user
[20:10] settings video or voice and
[20:14] video and your input device is going to
[20:17] be that
[20:18] B2 unless you selected B1 B2 is where
[20:22] we'll keep it and then you're going to
[20:24] select the
[20:26] cable input as the output device and
[20:30] what it's going to do is it's going to
[20:32] allow it to come through this channel
[20:34] here so we'll just test that real quick
[20:37] bring this
[20:39] down mic check mic M check like I said
[20:43] in a previous video this this mic test
[20:46] is not very great but at the very least
[20:49] you are able to see M check that that's
[20:52] coming through the right Channel and
[20:55] it's feeding through that B1 so if we
[20:57] look back
[20:59] to
[21:04] this might
[21:07] check you could see that it was coming
[21:09] correctly through the
[21:11] B1 and you'll start to understand the
[21:13] routings a little bit more and it seems
[21:16] a little complicated at first but once
[21:18] you understand it and you grasp what
[21:22] routes where what setup where it's not
[21:25] as hard as it really used to be cuz in
[21:27] the past you really only had one option
[21:29] of routing which was your B1 and B2 now
[21:33] you have multiple ways of routing I'm
[21:35] trying to keep it as simple as possible
[21:37] but I'm also giving you options to be
[21:40] able to set it up to how you want it so
[21:45] this is kind of the basic setup and how
[21:47] most people have it set up the one last
[21:50] thing I'll mention is on your system
[21:53] settings these are either sets of
[21:55] default now if you are having some mic
[21:58] crackling or microphone issues you can
[22:02] technically bump these up a little
[22:04] higher now just keep in mind that the
[22:07] higher you go the more delay you're
[22:08] going to have so keep it as the default
[22:11] as best as you can I haven't had too
[22:13] many issues yet so and then make sure
[22:16] these are all defaulted to that 48 Hertz
[22:18] like you had before all right so I
[22:21] understand that's a lot of information
[22:23] to go through so you can go back I'm
[22:25] going to try to Tim stamp everything as
[22:27] best as possible
[22:29] go back find what works for you or what
[22:31] you need to set up for your system you
[22:35] want something really specific that I
[22:37] haven't covered uh you can hop in my
[22:39] Discord and ask me send me some
[22:41] screenshots so I can try of work through
[22:43] with you know what your system is like
[22:45] and whatever the issues you're having I
[22:47] think a lot of the issues comes from the
[22:49] different microphones or if you have uh
[22:52] an effects voice mod I think is what
[22:54] it's called voice mod and routing and
[22:57] you know kind of people have like major
[23:00] sound issues or you're getting an error
[23:02] on voice meter when you're installing it
[23:05] whatever the case is we'll do our best
[23:07] to help you over in the Discord as
[23:09] always I hope this helped you I HED I
[23:11] covered as much as possible in this new
[23:14] setup new version of VO meter which is
[23:16] actually really really nice so thank you
[23:18] vo meter for giving us a free version of
[23:21] like the go XLR or now
[23:23] broadcaster Pro 2 which is basically
[23:26] does everything that that does
[23:28] for free so again thanks for watching
[23:30] and I will see you guys on the next one
[23:32] later
[23:35] [Applause]
[23:35] [Music]