[0:00] how many of you guys were told about a
[0:01] program called voice meter
[0:03] and you look up a tutorial and the first
[0:05] thing you see
[0:06] is this thing you're like what the hell
[0:08] does any of this mean man who am i a
[0:10] scientist
[0:10] i get it it looks complicated and scary
[0:12] but trust me once you get the hang of it
[0:14] it's actually really intuitive to use
[0:16] and probably the best free audio
[0:18] software
[0:19] that you're ever going to come across
[0:20] for streaming you've never heard about
[0:21] voicemeeter before it's basically like a
[0:23] free digital mixer
[0:24] that you can use to separate audio like
[0:27] your game audio
[0:28] discord or spotify let's say for example
[0:31] you're playing a game and you're
[0:33] listening to music in your headphones
[0:35] but you don't want your stream to hear
[0:37] that music because i don't know maybe
[0:38] you're listening to michelle branch or
[0:40] something and you're really embarrassed
[0:41] about it
[0:42] you can mute the music just for your
[0:44] stream but still have the game audio
[0:46] go out to all your viewers you can also
[0:48] use voice meter to process your mic's
[0:50] audio so it sounds really good for your
[0:52] stream
[0:53] however i don't recommend that because
[0:55] frankly i think there are better
[0:56] solutions for processing your audio
[0:58] which i've already done in another video
[0:59] so we won't be covering any of the audio
[1:01] processing in this video
[1:03] but we will break down voicemeeter so
[1:04] that it's very easy to understand
[1:06] and show you how you can use it to have
[1:08] complete control of your audio
[1:10] for your stream
[1:12] [Music]
[1:14] what's up guys it's nutty so let's put
[1:16] aside actually installing voicemeeter
[1:19] because
[1:19] it's really important that you have a
[1:21] really clear picture about what
[1:23] voicemeeter actually does
[1:24] so that you understand how to actually
[1:27] use it
[1:28] for controlling your stream's audio
[1:30] let's start with how most people's audio
[1:31] is set up
[1:32] you basically have obs sending a single
[1:35] audio track
[1:36] to twitch which is eventually what your
[1:38] viewers hear your typical obs setup will
[1:40] have
[1:40] two main audio sources your microphone
[1:43] is pretty self-explanatory it's
[1:44] basically
[1:45] the thing that you make noises with your
[1:47] mouth into and then you have this thing
[1:49] called desktop audio and the way you can
[1:51] think of this is basically if you hear
[1:53] this
[1:54] in your headphones or your speakers this
[1:56] is exactly what's going to be captured
[1:58] by
[1:58] desktop audio in most cases this is
[2:01] going to be the audio from all your
[2:02] programs so from all the games that
[2:04] you're playing
[2:05] discord spotify or anything you listen
[2:07] to music out of
[2:08] all of those programs get combined down
[2:10] into a single audio source
[2:12] which as you can tell is a problem
[2:14] because you as the streamer
[2:16] want to control what your viewers hear
[2:18] and what you hear
[2:19] individually so we're going to scrap
[2:21] this whole setup and replace it with
[2:22] something else
[2:23] imagine a big box and this box has a
[2:26] bunch of inputs
[2:28] and a bunch of outputs you can think of
[2:30] your inputs as
[2:31] things that you can plug into this box
[2:33] and those could be physical things like
[2:35] a microphone
[2:36] or they can be programs on your computer
[2:39] like spotify or discord those physical
[2:41] things are what's known as hardware
[2:43] input devices
[2:44] and those programs are what's known as
[2:46] virtual input devices
[2:48] and this box happens to have three
[2:50] hardware inputs
[2:51] and two virtual inputs now the outputs
[2:53] on this box
[2:54] are things that hear audio so again
[2:57] these could be physical things like
[2:59] speakers or headphones that sound
[3:01] actually comes out of or
[3:03] these could be programs that listen to
[3:05] audio such as
[3:06] obs now this box has a bunch of buttons
[3:09] on them which can control
[3:10] which inputs go to which outputs for
[3:13] example
[3:14] i can plug in my game audio into one of
[3:16] these virtual inputs
[3:18] then use this box and tell it to output
[3:21] the audio
[3:22] to my headphones and to obs but if i'm
[3:25] listening to music
[3:26] i can plug in spotify into another
[3:28] virtual input
[3:30] and then tell the box to only output
[3:32] that audio to my headphones
[3:34] and not output to obs so basically
[3:37] the box that allows us to do all this
[3:40] stuff
[3:41] this is what voice meter is all it is is
[3:43] software that you can
[3:44] plug audio devices into and then route
[3:47] it
[3:48] to other devices that will receive that
[3:50] audio so does that give you guys a
[3:52] clearer picture of what voice meter does
[3:55] just say yes gavin okay because i never
[3:57] want to do diagrams like that ever again
[3:58] in my entire life
[4:00] so let's actually get into installing
[4:01] voicemeeter so i've left a link in
[4:03] description box down below for where you
[4:04] can actually find the install
[4:06] you'll notice that there's three
[4:07] different variants of voicemeeter
[4:08] there's voicemeeter regular voicemeeter
[4:10] banana and voicemeeter potato and
[4:13] they're basically all the same the main
[4:14] difference is that they just have a
[4:16] different number of inputs and outputs
[4:18] we're gonna go with voicemeeter banana
[4:20] because voicemeeter potato has the most
[4:22] inputs and outputs but it also costs
[4:25] money you're also gonna wanna install
[4:27] vb cable virtual audio device i haven't
[4:29] told you what this is for yet but this
[4:31] is going to make sense in a little bit
[4:32] by the way i should have mentioned at
[4:34] the start of this video that this video
[4:35] is for windows only
[4:37] so if you're using a mac you just got
[4:40] prank son
[4:41] after you've installed everything it's
[4:43] gonna make you restart your computer so
[4:44] when it restarts just open up
[4:45] voicemeeter banana this is what it's
[4:47] gonna look like when you open it for the
[4:48] first time
[4:49] now like i said i know it looks scary
[4:51] and complicated so let me simplify this
[4:53] for you remember how i said earlier that
[4:55] we're not going to be
[4:56] processing our mic at all in this video
[4:58] well that means we can just ignore
[4:59] all of these controls because all these
[5:01] controls are for
[5:03] controlling how your audio sounds so
[5:06] we're not even going to touch any of
[5:07] these we're also not going to be doing
[5:08] any recording in voice meter so
[5:10] this tape recorder thing in the corner
[5:13] which
[5:13] by the way it's 20 20 man we don't use
[5:16] tape recorders anymore so just get that
[5:17] out of here
[5:18] also just a little pre-setup go into the
[5:20] menu and make sure
[5:21] auto restart audio engine is checked and
[5:24] run
[5:24] in system menu at startup this will just
[5:26] make sure that voicemeeter starts
[5:28] every time you restart windows so now
[5:30] we're just left with a bunch of columns
[5:32] which are
[5:33] our inputs and our outputs the five
[5:35] columns on the left are the three
[5:36] hardware inputs and the two virtual
[5:38] inputs from the diagram i showed you
[5:40] earlier
[5:40] and the five on the right are the three
[5:42] hardware outputs and two virtual outputs
[5:44] we're gonna set up our hardware output
[5:46] first so we can actually hear something
[5:48] so just click on a1 and then a drop down
[5:50] will appear and just select whatever
[5:52] your headphones or your speakers are
[5:54] you're gonna see each audio device
[5:55] listed multiple times but
[5:57] with the prefix wdm or ks or mme
[6:00] they're basically all the same audio
[6:02] devices they just use different drivers
[6:04] we're gonna choose the wdm version of
[6:06] our speakers if you want to set up a
[6:08] second device
[6:09] like headphones you can set that in the
[6:11] a2 column exactly the same way
[6:13] next we need to tell windows to pass
[6:15] audio into voicemeeter because right now
[6:18] audio is still getting passed directly
[6:20] to your speakers or directly to your
[6:22] headphones to do that
[6:23] go into your control panel and then
[6:25] search for change system
[6:27] sounds and then this window should pop
[6:29] up in the playback tab you'll see a list
[6:31] of devices and one of the devices is
[6:33] gonna have a green
[6:34] check mark in it which is probably gonna
[6:35] be your speakers or your headphones
[6:37] this is the device that windows is
[6:39] routing all of your audio into and we
[6:41] don't want that
[6:42] we want our audio to be routed through
[6:44] voice meter if you scroll to the bottom
[6:46] of that list
[6:47] you're gonna see two devices that say
[6:48] voice meter input
[6:50] and voice meter aux input the naming is
[6:53] really confusing this but basically
[6:54] voice meter input corresponds to that
[6:57] first virtual input
[6:58] in voice meter and aux input corresponds
[7:01] to the
[7:02] second virtual input in voice meter
[7:04] we're going to choose voice meter input
[7:06] and select
[7:06] set default and if you've done it right
[7:08] you can start playing any audio it could
[7:10] be of youtube video it could be music
[7:13] your favorite hentai i don't care
[7:14] whatever you want you should see the
[7:16] meter for the first virtual input
[7:18] moving up and down and you should also
[7:21] hear the audio
[7:22] coming out of whatever device you set as
[7:24] your a1
[7:25] hardware output now if you have two
[7:27] hardware devices set up like i have the
[7:29] first being your speakers the second
[7:30] being your headphones
[7:32] you'll notice that the audio is only
[7:34] coming out of your speakers
[7:35] and not your headphones and the reason
[7:37] for that is because if you look at the
[7:39] first virtual input you'll see these
[7:41] buttons that say a1
[7:42] a2 a3 b1 b2 you'll see that we've only
[7:46] selected
[7:46] a1 so these buttons tell you where to
[7:50] route the audio
[7:51] okay so far this setup
[7:54] not very useful all of our audio is
[7:57] still being sent
[7:58] to this one virtual input so all of our
[8:01] audio discord music
[8:03] it's still going through this one
[8:04] channel so now we're gonna start to
[8:06] separate our audio out
[8:08] we'll start easy we're gonna pull out
[8:10] discord's audio
[8:11] from the rest of our audio because right
[8:13] now discord is still pointing at the
[8:15] same
[8:15] virtual input device that all of our
[8:17] audio is pointing to
[8:19] so all we're going to do is we're going
[8:20] to go into our discord settings
[8:22] go to voice and video and then change
[8:24] our
[8:25] output device to voicemeeter aux input
[8:28] remember that the aux input corresponds
[8:30] to the second
[8:31] virtual input in voicemeeter so now if
[8:34] you do a mic
[8:34] check in discord and start talking to
[8:37] your mic you should see the second meter
[8:39] in voice meter move up and down then you
[8:41] can use the a and the b
[8:42] buttons to choose which audio devices
[8:44] you want your discord audio to come out
[8:46] of so in my case i want my discord audio
[8:49] to come out of
[8:49] both my speakers and my headphones so
[8:52] i'm gonna choose a1
[8:53] and a2 so now your discord audio is
[8:56] completely decoupled from the rest of
[8:57] your audio
[8:58] but you're still going to hear your
[8:59] teammates you know like calling you
[9:01] names because you're a terrible teammate
[9:02] in apex and then you're going to be like
[9:04] crying because they're all bullying you
[9:05] and stuff but nobody in your stream
[9:08] is going to be able to hear that because
[9:09] they can't hear the discord audio now
[9:11] that may be how you want it set up
[9:13] not the crying part but you might want
[9:16] it set up so that you can hear your
[9:17] discord and your stream can't
[9:19] but chances are you probably do want
[9:21] your stream to hear the discord audio
[9:23] so how do we do that you're going to go
[9:25] into obs go into your sources
[9:27] right click and add an audio capture
[9:29] device and you're going to set the
[9:30] device to your voicemeeter aux
[9:33] input so this is basically going to
[9:35] capture all the audio that's being fed
[9:37] into that second virtual input device
[9:39] then just make sure that you've added
[9:41] this
[9:41] audio output capture source into every
[9:44] single scene that you want your discord
[9:47] audio to be heard
[9:48] so this is a good setup so every time
[9:50] you just want to mute your discord audio
[9:52] so that your stream can't hear it
[9:54] you just mute that audio source in obs
[9:57] and that'll just mute just your discord
[9:59] but leave the rest of your audio
[10:01] completely untouched but let's say we
[10:03] wanted to add another layer of
[10:05] complexity to this
[10:06] and we wanted to add music to our stream
[10:08] and let's say our music
[10:09] is coming in through youtube in a chrome
[10:11] browser and we want all that audio
[10:14] to come in yet another audio source in
[10:16] obs this is a bit complicated because
[10:18] you'll notice in voicemeeter
[10:20] we don't have any more virtual inputs
[10:22] anymore so
[10:23] what are we going to do we're just going
[10:25] to pull a virtual input out of thin air
[10:27] uh yeah kind of remember how we
[10:29] installed vb
[10:30] cable basically what vb cable does is it
[10:33] allows us to turn one of our hardware
[10:35] inputs
[10:36] into another virtual input remember that
[10:38] these hardware inputs can only be used
[10:40] for things like a physical microphone
[10:43] but by installing vb cable we can plug
[10:46] another program like youtube into one of
[10:50] the hardware inputs
[10:51] to do that we're going to select input
[10:52] on our hardware input 1
[10:54] and then we're going to scroll down to
[10:56] where it says cable output
[10:58] then we just have to tell youtube to
[10:59] point all of its audio
[11:01] to that vb cable output because right
[11:03] now all of youtube's audio is still
[11:05] going through the default windows
[11:07] audio device which is that virtual input
[11:10] device that we set
[11:11] earlier how do we tell youtube where to
[11:13] output its audio
[11:15] if you go into your pc settings go into
[11:17] sound settings and at the bottom it
[11:19] should say
[11:20] app volume and device preferences you
[11:22] can see a list of all the programs
[11:24] playing audio on your pc and you can
[11:27] change the output
[11:28] device for each program so if you're
[11:30] playing your music off
[11:31] spotify or chrome or whatever
[11:35] people play music off nowadays you just
[11:37] need to change the output for that
[11:39] program
[11:40] to cable input if you've done it
[11:42] correctly the first hardware input
[11:44] in voice meter should now be moving up
[11:46] and down when you're playing music
[11:48] or any audio from that program again you
[11:51] can use the a and the b buttons again to
[11:53] decide
[11:53] which devices that audio comes out of so
[11:56] again i'm going to set
[11:57] a1 and a2 on because i want to hear the
[12:00] music
[12:00] in my headphones and in my speakers then
[12:03] an obs we can do exactly like we did for
[12:05] discord we just add another audio output
[12:07] capture device
[12:08] select cable input as our device and
[12:11] then now we have a third channel that we
[12:13] can route audio to
[12:14] by now you should have three audio
[12:16] devices in obs
[12:17] plus your microphone which you can all
[12:19] independently control
[12:21] without affecting each other which will
[12:23] allow you to mute your discord in your
[12:25] stream but still hear it in your
[12:26] headphones
[12:27] or even allow you to mute your music in
[12:29] your headphones
[12:30] and still come out in your stream you
[12:32] just have complete control over your
[12:34] audio now but let's just say you wanted
[12:36] to go even crazier and add even
[12:38] more programs as separate channels at
[12:40] obs because you know
[12:41] you're greedy and three just isn't
[12:43] enough for you you can download up to
[12:45] two more of those vb cables they're
[12:47] called vb cable a
[12:48] and vb cable b by the way all the naming
[12:52] for all of these different channels
[12:53] really sucks for voice meter it's really
[12:55] confusing anyway vb cable a
[12:57] and b are pretty much exactly the same
[13:00] thing as vb cable
[13:02] it's just you get two more of them but
[13:04] you do have to pay for them but they do
[13:06] function exactly the same as vb cable so
[13:08] if you want to turn your
[13:09] other two hardware inputs into virtual
[13:12] inputs
[13:12] well then you can pay to download vb
[13:14] cable a and b but that's gonna do it for
[13:16] this voice meter tutorial guys i know
[13:18] this video was not
[13:20] funny okay i could i could only fit like
[13:22] five jokes into that video which is like
[13:25] way less than the number of jokes that i
[13:27] usually fit into videos i even wore like
[13:29] an elmo shirt today so i can like make
[13:31] you guys
[13:32] laugh and i didn't even you didn't even
[13:33] see it for the whole video
[13:35] but if you'd like to laugh at my crappy
[13:37] jokes come watch me on twitch.tv
[13:39] nutty i actually changed my name this
[13:41] week so
[13:43] nutella forever he's dead now we're
[13:45] twitch.tv
[13:46] nutty also if you want more help for
[13:48] setting up your stream we're setting up
[13:49] voice meter because you couldn't figure
[13:51] it out
[13:52] through my crappy video make sure to
[13:54] join the discord link in description box
[13:56] down below other than that this video is
[13:58] done
[13:59] class dismissed i'll see you next time
[14:05] [Music]