Complete Voicemeeter Setup Guide 2024 | New Updates & Routing for OBS/Discord | Banana & Potato

[00:00] so voice meter had some changes recently

[00:01] so I'm going to go through what's

[00:03] changed the setup and some different

[00:05] routing options that are available to

[00:07] you in this

[00:13] video hey guys what's going on I'm beat

[00:15] Walker and welcome back to another video

[00:17] today we're going over the 2024 version

[00:20] of voice meter either vo meter banana vo

[00:23] meter potato whatever it is you're using

[00:26] I'm going to go through some of the

[00:27] changes that's happened recently and

[00:29] some of the confusion with these videos

[00:32] and how they're outdated they're sort of

[00:35] outdated but not really for the most

[00:37] part it's just a routing that

[00:38] everybody's confused on so I'm going to

[00:40] go over all of that so I'm going to

[00:41] break this up into a few different parts

[00:44] the first part I'm going to talk about

[00:45] some of the changes and some of the

[00:47] routing options that you'll have

[00:49] available to you now second part is

[00:51] going to be the setup how to set it up

[00:53] to your computer how to get everything

[00:55] started for your routing then the last

[00:58] part of course is the routing

[01:00] which probably the most confusing part

[01:02] but I'm going to try to simplify it to

[01:04] what most people will use as a routing

[01:06] and then give you some other options

[01:07] that you might use or stuff that be

[01:11] available if you want to expand your

[01:12] setup all right let's get into it all

[01:14] right so we'll go through this really

[01:15] quickly cuz you may or may not not care

[01:18] about what the updates are but this did

[01:20] update in February so I recently went

[01:23] through some of the

[01:25] updates myself and kind of got

[01:27] familiarized with it so I'll explain

[01:29] this as best as POS possible what you

[01:31] need to know and what the important

[01:32] things are uh for you kind of one of the

[01:36] main things is they stabilize some of

[01:38] the drivers with Windows 10 and Windows

[01:40] Windows 11 so what that means is the old

[01:43] system was using a old set of Windows

[01:46] and you'd have a lot of audio problems

[01:47] people were just having audio problems I

[01:49] think I've went over a few of them in my

[01:51] other videos what they did to stabilize

[01:53] that out which is really really good I

[01:55] haven't had any problems so far and I

[01:57] hopefully you won't either from now on

[02:01] I'm not going to worry about that

[02:02] internal clock not worried about that

[02:04] either so you can select different audio

[02:07] devices now um it's just a new way of

[02:10] selecting the devices Vice the old way

[02:13] and it's separated between basically wdm

[02:17] and MMA in the multimedia which is

[02:19] typically the ones we use so you'll see

[02:21] that when I explain it in voice meter

[02:24] when we take a look at it Vio extensions

[02:27] this is similar to the old

[02:31] viio that we had it's just separated now

[02:34] which I'm going to show you on the

[02:36] different drivers which is this part

[02:38] which is the different drivers that you

[02:40] have available to you

[02:42] now uh and then same with the output

[02:44] drivers so you have input and output

[02:46] drivers available to you now to select

[02:49] differently again we're going to go

[02:51] through all of this but I just want you

[02:52] to know that you will not have just one

[02:55] or two selections you will have multiple

[02:58] selections and I think that's the

[02:59] biggest confusion that I've had in my

[03:02] Discord and questions which audio driver

[03:04] do I select in and out we're going to go

[03:07] through that and it's actually pretty

[03:09] nice so that voice meter so so you have

[03:14] different drivers in vo meter banana and

[03:17] potato available for you so potato just

[03:20] gives you more extensions which majority

[03:22] of people will not need I do like

[03:25] potato for various reasons I may do

[03:28] another video on why I think potatoes

[03:30] just better for streamers and people who

[03:33] are serious if you're just starting out

[03:35] and you want something simple and free

[03:37] voice meter banana is going be for you

[03:40] uh if you want to been a little bit more

[03:41] expensive and you know with more

[03:44] controls essentially you can use potato

[03:47] pay a little donation to them and uh get

[03:50] full access pretty simple so that's

[03:52] going to be pretty much it before I dig

[03:55] into the setup I'm G to show this and if

[03:58] you want to take a screenshot you can

[04:00] but I wanted

[04:02] to kind of

[04:05] simplify the routing that you can

[04:08] use in voice meter okay and this this is

[04:12] a

[04:12] perfect snapshot this is a perfect

[04:15] snapshot of you know how you'd set up

[04:18] voice meter essentially you have your

[04:21] microphone TV isn't is one that I'm just

[04:24] not going to use I'm put it going to put

[04:26] a Discord over here but this could be an

[04:30] external let's say Xbox PlayStation if

[04:33] you have a capture card that's where

[04:36] this would come in as a hardware device

[04:37] instead of a TV nobody's really using a

[04:39] TV so I'd have my internal microphone or

[04:43] you can have a another microphone that

[04:46] you use let's say a uh like I'm using a

[04:50] roadter right now you can use a USB with

[04:52] a roadter and then Discord so I'm just

[04:56] kind of giving you some examples of what

[04:58] that would look like or you have your M

[05:00] PlayStation 5 Xbox Discord internally

[05:04] using that cable

[05:05] output and then your all your audio

[05:08] stuff coming from like YouTube Spotify

[05:12] Etc you know if you're using Skype which

[05:15] Skype this is kind of updated in terms

[05:17] of Skype or maybe not maybe people use

[05:19] zoom um but for the most part it'll be

[05:22] your spotifi and then all your YouTube

[05:24] stuff gameplay audio Etc so this could

[05:27] probably be your gameplay audio and you

[05:30] could actually split this up now which

[05:31] is cool um whereas before they're kind

[05:34] of integrated you could split them up as

[05:36] a little bit difficult but now they've

[05:38] made it a lot easier to do that and then

[05:40] outputs obviously your a1s and

[05:43] everything is going to be your

[05:45] headphones headset and then you could

[05:46] push it out to some speakers if you

[05:48] wanted to or um an additional set of

[05:51] headphones let's say you're doing a

[05:53] podcast you could do that as

[05:56] well and that's your a audio devices and

[05:59] then your bees is basically one of your

[06:02] stof software OBS Etc so yeah this is

[06:06] just a good routing example and then

[06:08] this other example is kind of like how

[06:10] the routing would go from the like let's

[06:14] say you have all your A's here selected

[06:17] that's everything you're going to hear

[06:18] from that first audio and then let's say

[06:21] you wanted something just to go out to

[06:24] speakers or that second host like let's

[06:27] say they didn't want to hear themselves

[06:28] say the second host was on this TV line

[06:32] so you'd have your first mic and then

[06:34] the second host's mic or vice versa

[06:37] they'd hear you you'd hear them without

[06:40] hearing yourself that kind of makes

[06:42] sense so another good example again I'll

[06:45] post these

[06:46] two um images down below so you kind of

[06:49] just take a look at them see how you can

[06:51] rout it all right so if you haven't done

[06:53] the installation before or or you're new

[06:57] click the link below or just search vo

[07:00] meter banana there's going to be this

[07:02] download package link here click that

[07:05] it's going to quickly download and then

[07:08] what you're also going to do is come

[07:10] over to this virtual audio cable and

[07:13] then you're going to download this

[07:15] driver pack as well all right so once

[07:18] you have these downloaded you're going

[07:19] to want to install the voice meter as

[07:23] you normally would type yes

[07:25] there okay so I've I already H I already

[07:28] have one installed so I'm not going to

[07:29] going to remove the voice meter but you

[07:32] basically go to the installation here

[07:34] and then click out the VB cable pack

[07:37] you're going to want to extract so you

[07:39] can

[07:41] go extract same

[07:45] area not a big deal all right once that

[07:48] Pack's open you're going to have a

[07:49] regular setup in a 64 majority of people

[07:52] would use the 64 but it depends on your

[07:54] system so you find the right one right

[07:57] click and then make sure you run as

[07:58] administrator on this one the setup on

[08:00] this is just kind of different in terms

[08:03] of um how you want it on your system so

[08:06] click yes there I'm going to install

[08:08] this driver okay all right so once it

[08:12] installs it's going to open this page

[08:14] it's fine don't ignore that you're going

[08:16] to want to restart your system and come

[08:19] right back okay so once you've installed

[08:21] and restarted your computer as you can

[08:23] see I have voice meter up basically

[08:25] where you want to go to find it is click

[08:27] on all apps scroll all the way down to

[08:29] the VB audio folder and then you're

[08:31] going to select either the voice meter

[08:34] banana 64 or if you have potato you can

[08:37] do that as well so I'm going to choose

[08:38] voice meter banana which I already have

[08:40] open here and what you're listening to

[08:42] right now so what I'm going to do is

[08:44] real quick before we get started on

[08:46] voice meter what you're going to want to

[08:47] do is go down here to your sound

[08:49] settings right click there go to sound

[08:53] settings let me bring this over here so

[08:57] once you're in here your output device

[08:59] which what you want what you're going to

[09:00] want to do is make sure you set this to

[09:02] voice meter input so the voice meter

[09:05] input is a little bit different from the

[09:07] way it was before where you're not so

[09:09] before you were getting all your audio

[09:12] from that B1 Channel if anybody

[09:14] remembers sent to voic metor input now

[09:17] it's its own separate virtual input so

[09:19] the if you default it to this the

[09:22] majority of your game sounds your your

[09:25] Spotify anything set up on default will

[09:28] come through that voice meter input now

[09:30] so what you want to do now is just make

[09:33] sure you have it set to voice meter

[09:35] input once you have that your input

[09:39] device uh I have it set to microphone

[09:41] but what you want to do is either set it

[09:43] to vo meter out B2 which is how I have

[09:46] it or B1 I would avoid probably doing B1

[09:50] because the majority of your sounds are

[09:51] going to come through there like all

[09:53] your game sounds and Spotify so you so

[09:56] you're either going to want to keep your

[09:57] 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

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