How to Setup VoiceMeeter Banana for OBS or XSplit & Streaming to Twitch / Beam + Discord

[00:00] What's up guys?

[00:01] This is going to be an in-depth tutorial on

[00:04] I struggled to learn how to use this program.

[00:07] I had to watch about ten different YouTube

[00:10] The things I know now, if they would have

[00:14] have made this entire process much easier.

[00:17] By the time we're done with this, you'll be

[00:21] how you want.

[00:23] From XSplit to OBS Studio, to Discord or Skype.

[00:26] To getting certain audio to your Twitch stream

[00:29] You're going to be able to do all of it and

[00:37] Remember that you can pause between each of

[00:39] I'm going to try and make them short and sweet.

[00:42] Step 1, download and install VoiceMeeter Banana.

[00:47] Step 2, download and install Virtual Audio

[00:51] There's a link in the description as well,

[00:55] Step 3, before we can make changes to VoiceMeeter

[01:00] Windows is properly set.

[01:02] It's playback device must be set for VoiceMeeter

[01:07] Find your speaker icon in the bottom menu.

[01:12] Right click it, click on audio devices, and

[01:18] to see playback, recording, sounds, and communications.

[01:22] Select playback.

[01:23] You'll notice that my current headset is set

[01:29] Scroll down and change this to VoiceMeeter

[01:33] Click on it and click set default.

[01:36] You'll notice it gets the green check mark.

[01:38] Hit okay, you can now close that down.

[01:42] Step 4, the first thing that we want to do

[01:47] Under hardware input 1, click on select input

[01:52] This is going to bring up a list of pieces

[01:56] You'll notice that there are repeats.

[01:59] WDM, KS, and MME all represent the same devices.

[02:03] They are just different drivers that you can

[02:08] In our case, because it's guaranteed to work,

[02:14] This difference between the two of them is

[02:19] levels than the other.

[02:21] You'll experience less lag with WDM than you

[02:25] However, if you notice any crackling or any

[02:31] driver and that usually fixes the problem.

[02:35] We're going to select in our case WDM because it is a better and more fast option for our microphone.

[02:42] You're microphone will appear as a different

[02:44] I'm using a Focusrite amplifier with a microphone

[02:49] We're going to select Focusrite USB.

[02:51] However, you're microphone is going to be

[02:55] If it's a USB microphone it's likely to show

[02:59] If it's hooked to an amplifier or sound card

[03:03] to show up as the name of that device.

[03:05] I'm assuming that you know which one of these

[03:09] Click on the one that does, start with WDM

[03:13] If WDM is not available, choose MME.

[03:16] Step 5, we now need to tell VoiceMeeter Banana

[03:23] to it.

[03:24] We are going to select our first hardware

[03:27] Under A1, locate the device that you use to

[03:32] In our case, it's a headset.

[03:35] Use the driver that matches the previous driver

[03:39] In our case we used WDM for our microphone,

[03:45] our headset, earphone Hyper X 7.1.

[03:49] In your case it could be desktop speakers.

[03:52] It could be a headset, or it could be some

[03:56] Whichever one you are selecting is going to

[04:02] for Windows.

[04:05] Step 6, now that we have our microphone and

[04:12] record, we now need understand a little bit

[04:16] these inputs and what they do.

[04:19] You'll notice at the top we have A1, A2, and

[04:23] You'll see an A1, and A2, and an A3 in each

[04:29] For right now we're going to turn everything

[04:33] When I show you what each one does you'll

[04:37] Currently, if we were to try and watch anything

[04:44] video by PewDiePie, I can't hear anything

[04:49] And you watching at home, wherever you have

[04:55] this video currently with all of these buttons

[04:59] So, how do we get our headphones hooked to

[05:04] Well, which one of these inputs is YouTube

[05:09] It's coming through this one right here.

[05:12] Notice that we have VoiceMeeter VAIO and VoiceMeeter

[05:16] If you remember back when we set our playback

[05:25] input.

[05:26] We also have the other option to set it for

[05:28] So, as A1 and A2 and A3 correspond to A1,

[05:37] B2.

[05:39] So you'll notice that this, because it's set

[05:45] responsible for catching all of the audio

[05:49] That would include a YouTube video, the audio

[05:55] sounds.

[05:57] Anything that can play through Windows, which

[06:05] All we have to do to get our sound hooked

[06:11] is currently capturing YouTube, to send the

[06:16] You might have guessed it, all we have to

[06:23] If I didn't have a YouTube video on and I

[06:30] true.

[06:31] I would turn A1 on and it would go to my headphones.

[06:33] I do have a secondary set of speakers and

[06:39] to demonstrate this to you to give you an

[06:43] I'm going to click A2 and I'm going to select

[06:48] I have my headphones in A1 and my desktop

[06:53] So now if I was to send the Windows audio

[07:00] send it to my speakers by clicking A2.

[07:05] Now if I go back to YouTube and play that

[07:10] coming through my headphones as well as coming

[07:18] If I turn off A1, it is now only coming through

[07:24] hear that being picked up through my microphone.

[07:28] Notice that if I turn A2 back off, the video

[07:34] audio from Windows, the video on YouTube is

[07:41] This works for all of these inputs.

[07:44] For instance, hardware input 1 can be sent

[07:51] In our case, we are going to send hardware

[07:59] That way it can be mixed with the audio from

[08:04] else you have, and sent as one audio stream

[08:11] XSplit.

[08:13] So here we go.

[08:14] I'm going to send it over B1.

[08:16] I'm also going to send it over to B2.

[08:20] Remember, this is B1 and this is B2.

[08:25] They are identical.

[08:26] They are copies of each other.

[08:28] The reason that there's two is to give us

[08:31] B1 can be used to manage our headphones and

[08:38] And B2 can be connected to OBS or XSplit and

[08:48] recording, or more importantly, out to your

[08:54] Step 7, now we just need to add Discord to

[09:01] directly to your headphones or to your stream,

[09:07] that your setup is complete.

[09:09] This is where we are going to use the virtual

[09:14] We're going to setup Discord under hardware

[09:19] Hit select input device and select cable output.

[09:25] Notice that we're choosing the cable output

[09:30] output option under WDM.

[09:33] Next, open up Skype or Discord or whatever

[09:40] The setup for each of these is going to be

[09:44] Now navigate to the section of Discord with

[09:49] Find the section that says voice, and look

[09:56] Set your input device to the same device that

[10:01] In our case it's the Focusrite USB amplifier.

[10:06] Now we set the output device to match hardware

[10:11] VoiceMeeter Banana is looking for this new

[10:17] It's going to think that Discord is an actual

[10:21] In reality it's just a piece of software but

[10:26] Setting output device to cable input allows

[10:34] into VoiceMeeter, where it then can be mixed

[10:39] XSplit or OBS for your live streams or recordings,

[10:48] Now we just need to tell VoiceMeeter Banana

[10:53] In this case I'd like to have it in my headphones,

[10:58] That will be how I'll show you to set it up

[11:02] What we're going to do is come to hardware

[11:08] A1 is our headphones.

[11:10] Anything that's said in Discord is going to

[11:16] for us to hear, but our stream will be unable

[11:20] If you wanted the stream to hear it, what

[11:27] this audio and send it over to B2, which is

[11:33] to, and then the entire thing will be mixed

[11:37] Step 8, lastly I'm going to open up OBS and

[11:44] to connect these two together.

[11:46] The same will be similar for XSplit (coming

[11:49] Go to the settings button inside of OBS.

[11:53] Open up the audio section.

[11:55] You'll notice we have five audio inputs.

[11:58] Disable all of them.

[12:00] Because the audio is coming through on a single

[12:05] will set the primary microphone device to

[12:14] And not VoiceMeeter VAIO by mistake.

[12:17] Hit apply and then hit OK.

[12:20] Now you'll notice in OBS that as we're talking

[12:27] all the way over to VoiceMeeter Aux, mixing

[12:34] then being sent out all the way to OBS where

[12:40] When you change the volume level here you're

[12:45] microphone in OBS, you're changing the volume

[12:49] When it comes time to adjust how loud each

[12:55] meters.

[12:56] I would suggest to have your microphone always

[13:02] at max level.

[13:03] Set your Discord appropriately, you'll have

[13:08] and game audio.

[13:10] Keep in mind, inside of the game you are able

[13:15] can always do it there.

[13:16] You can change the volume of the sounds effects.

[13:20] Do some local recordings, see how everything

[13:26] have it how you like it.

[13:27] Maybe even have some friends come into your

[13:31] that mixed in as well, or see how loud that

[13:35] Get everything setup, and then once it's setup

[13:39] bit more tweaking from there, and that's is

[13:44] When it comes to getting this to work with

[13:50] Open up XSplit.

[13:51] Open the audio settings button.

[13:54] Set system sounds to none, that way it isn't

[14:00] Set your microphone to the same exact thing,

[14:05] Hit apply, hit OK.

[14:07] Now we have an identical setup.

[14:10] To go over it one last time before we end

[14:15] guys understand this a little bit more, whatever

[14:19] be listening to physically where you are at.

[14:23] Speakers headphones.

[14:24] Our microphone is set here.

[14:26] Our microphone can be sent to our headphones

[14:32] inputs, B1 and B2.

[14:34] Our Discord can be sent to our headphones,

[14:40] stream, turned on and off right here.

[14:43] This can be adjusted for volume without actually

[14:49] just inside of our headphones.

[14:52] These volume controls allow you to independently

[14:57] you are sending out.

[14:59] Lastly, if you ever mess with one of these

[15:03] zero, double clicking it will get it precisely

[15:08] Play around with this a little bit more.

[15:10] The possibilities to add other things to this

[15:14] You're able to add in compression and a noise

[15:20] You're even able to change how your microphone

[15:25] effects, and again double click here to get

[15:32] Hopefully this made this a little bit easier

[15:34] This turned out be kind of a long video, but

[15:38] start to finish you'll have a pretty good

[15:42] When it comes time to add in new things, such

[15:48] time figuring it out.

[15:50] Thanks for watching.

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[15:56] Thanks and I'll catch you next time.