How to Play Music Through Your Mic with VoiceMeeter + VB-Cable (2025 Setup Guide)

[00:00] What's going on, guys? I'm going to be

[00:02] showing you how to um

[00:05] play music through your mic and video

[00:07] games.

[00:09] You're going to want to come over here

[00:10] to vbaudio.com.

[00:14] Go to the audio apps virtual audio

[00:16] cable. Going to want to download the VB

[00:20] cable, virtual audio device

[00:22] right here.

[00:25] And then you're going to also want to

[00:27] grab Voice Meter Banana, the advanced

[00:30] mixer. Download that here. Right here we

[00:34] have the two.

[00:38] Want to extract

[00:42] both of these.

[00:44] We want to first install DB audio cable.

[00:50] Do that. I already have it installed.

[00:52] Going to go through the installation

[00:54] process. install it.

[00:56] I'm not removing the driver. It's

[00:58] probably going to ask you to restart the

[00:59] device or your device. After you restart

[01:02] your device after installing that, I

[01:05] want to come to voice meter

[01:08] and run the setup. Same thing. I already

[01:12] have everything installed.

[01:16] No reason for me to reinstall it again

[01:17] because it's going to ask me to restart.

[01:19] So once you have those two installed,

[01:24] you're going to have something like

[01:25] this.

[01:29] Your banana

[01:32] something like this is going to come up

[01:33] now. All right.

[01:37] So once you open up this,

[01:40] come down to your bottom right hand

[01:42] screen. Click the uh the sound. You're

[01:45] going to want your desktop input set to

[01:47] voice meter input.

[01:50] Then for your selected stereo device,

[01:52] you're going to want to put the

[01:54] microphone that you wish to use in video

[01:56] game. So currently right now I use the

[01:59] uh 5in microphone number two. You put

[02:02] that as your input device. As you can

[02:04] see now it's reading my inputs. These

[02:08] channels right here, your A1, A2, B1,

[02:12] B2, all these channels correlate to over

[02:15] here.

[02:16] So, if I were to put A1, I would now

[02:19] hear my own voice through the desktop or

[02:21] through the um speakers.

[02:25] So, for your microphone, you want to

[02:27] have it set to just B1 and B2 because

[02:30] this is going to be used as the virtual

[02:31] mic in game.

[02:34] Then for stereo input number two, you're

[02:36] going to want to do the uh the cable

[02:38] output, your virtual cable output.

[02:42] Right now, there isn't anything

[02:45] feeding into that virtual audio cable.

[02:48] But if you want to listen to your own

[02:49] audio, you do A1 and A2

[02:53] because over here, this is where you set

[02:56] your hardware outputs up over hardware

[02:59] out. For your A1, you're going to want

[03:01] to set your headphones. A2, if you have

[03:04] an Elgato, you could then use that to

[03:06] output to the Elgato on A2.

[03:11] So, for the virtual inputs, you're going

[03:13] to want to put A1 and A2. So, it goes

[03:15] out through your headphones and your um

[03:21] what is it? Your TV, television, if you

[03:23] want to have dual audio outputs.

[03:26] After that, you're then going to go into

[03:28] your sound settings.

[03:34] Currently right now we have

[03:37] for your output

[03:40] you could choose whatever uh B1 or B2

[03:44] but these right here B1 and B2 are the

[03:48] virtual output devices to use as an

[03:50] input device.

[03:53] So that's what you're going to use. Not

[03:54] Yep. That's what you're going to Yeah.

[03:56] V1. God dang it. V1 going to set that as

[04:01] your input device. And if you go down to

[04:04] advanced sound settings,

[04:07] you're going to click uh you're going to

[04:09] find Spotify,

[04:11] have Spotify play some music,

[04:14] and then you're going to choose your

[04:16] virtual uh cable input. All right. When

[04:20] you do that, is now going to play music

[04:24] through

[04:27] the audio cable. And you can see the

[04:29] music

[04:32] right there playing through all the

[04:34] audio channels. So currently right now

[04:38] the cable output is outputting to both

[04:40] my headphones, my Elgato and then also

[04:44] my two um virtual outputs. So now when I

[04:50] use my mic and play music, it'll play

[04:52] through the virtual audio

[04:56] input technically for the mic. So

[04:58] technically this is being used as my mic

[05:00] and these are being phased through and

[05:04] my headphones speakers are grabbing A1

[05:07] and A2 to listen alongside PE what

[05:10] people are hearing through my mic as

[05:11] well.

[05:15] And then you're going to want to go into

[05:16] control panel

[05:21] sound

[05:25] and set your virtual meter input to both

[05:30] set the set as default device and set as

[05:34] default communication device. You're

[05:36] going to want to set that for your input

[05:37] so it always

[05:40] is on. You don't want to switching sound

[05:42] like you don't want to be switching

[05:43] devices so forth whenever you plug

[05:45] something new in set that at the as a

[05:47] default for both communication

[05:52] and just as default device. Same thing

[05:54] for recording the microphone that you

[05:57] wish to use in game to play music.

[06:00] You're going to want to use,

[06:03] [Music]

[06:04] sorry, you're going to want to use

[06:06] either B1 or B2 as your default

[06:12] device and as your default communication

[06:15] device.

[06:17] Now, when want to play any type of

[06:20] music, now it doesn't even have to be

[06:22] just Spotify. Like, let's just say for

[06:25] example, sound settings. I want

[06:29] uh let's see let's open up a YouTube

[06:30] video. Let's see.

[06:34] YouTube.com

[06:38] and let's just say

[06:40] >> in 1929 in Chicago

[06:43] >> to come out through the the desktop,

[06:45] right?

[06:47] We would then find where is it? Opera

[06:51] and put that also as your cable input

[06:54] and it'll output

[06:57] whatever device that you set as cable

[06:59] input through your mic.

[07:02] That's pretty much that.

[07:05] Pause that.

[07:07] All those two

[07:09] and then you'll learn how each channel

[07:11] works. I mean, you could mess with the

[07:13] gate to make sure that your mic's not

[07:15] peeking in game. So forth. Same thing

[07:18] for the music. Double click to reset.

[07:20] Double click to reset.

[07:23] And hopefully that helps you on

[07:29] getting it all together because right

[07:30] here, these virtual inputs are

[07:34] your desktop audio on where it's going

[07:36] to like pretty much what this is. Sorry.

[07:42] This picks up everything that's on the

[07:44] desktop and sends it through A1 and A2.

[07:49] [Music]

[07:51] If you have any questions, expo in the

[07:54] comments. Message me either or.

[07:57] And have a good one, boys. Peace.