GoXLR Setup Guide (Audio Channels, Mixer, and Microphone)

what is up guys hammer here with another video for you today I'm gonna show you guys how to set up your audio for your go XLR or your fil XLR mini that's going to include setting your channels assigning things to your faders and setting off any microphone that you have to get the best possible sound so as you probably already know it's fairly simple to set up the go XLR but with a little help you can make it sound even better it's gonna be sounding extremely professional and it's honestly one of the best devices I've ever owned I'm extremely happy with my purchase I love the go XLR I love my microphone now I might oughta is just it's so much easier so if you guys enjoy these videos drop a like subscribe to the channel and turn on your post notifications so you don't miss the next time I post a video and if you want to hang out with us on my live stream on Twitch I will drop a link to that down below as well I go live usually weeknights around 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time alright guys so let's jump in alright guys so obviously the first step is to plug your go XLR in to your gaming PC if you are using a dual PC setup you're gonna plug your go XLR into your gaming PC via USB and then you're going to run an aux cable from the line out port on your go XLR to the line in port on your streaming PC that's going to transfer all the audio from your go XLR basically everything from your gaming PC over to your streaming PC so once you've done that and you've plugged it in you're gonna download the software from their website and we're gonna take a look at the software now I'm gonna bring it up alright so mine is basically already set up but we're gonna go through everything as if we just plugged it in so the first thing you're gonna do is set up your microphone so it's gonna pop up with the mic setup options right here you're going to choose between your dynamic mic your condenser mic or your 3.5 millimeter microphone I'm using a dynamic mic which is the shure sm7b so i'm on dynamic when you get this when you get to this part you're going to choose what type of microphone you have just like I have here and then you are going to adjust your gain until your microphone is hitting the good range anywhere between here and here is great for just normal speaking obviously if you speak louder it's gonna jump up but we want to keep it in that range that's perfect for me if you condenser microphone it's gonna be a little bit lower front you're gonna be probably around like twenty to thirty gain maybe even lower if you have an extremely sensitive mic but for the sake of this video I'm using a dynamic mic I have it at 65 DB gain and that's perfect for me and my vocals come out crisp and clear and it gets on a nice signal so after you choose that come down here and hit OK and it's gonna look like this we're gonna minimize all those so you're gonna see these basic settings right here you're gonna have a noise gate for those of you who don't know what a noise gate does is it kind of minimizes the background noise so the microphone basically shuts down and closes when there's no noise like this and then when you talk it opens up so you don't get that like hissing like background noise so mess around with your noise gate because you definitely want to do that to minimize any background noise especially if you're in a noisy environment so for me I found that putting in at 20 was perfectly fine really with the noise gate you don't have to mess with any of the other settings except for maybe the attention if this is too high you will get hissing in the background so just you know record yourself or listen to yourself in your headphones and just adjust this until you don't get that hissing from when you stop talking so when you start talking again attack you want to keep that at 10 milliseconds and then you're released 200 milliseconds is perfectly normal so you can kind of just leave this like this put it at 20 and then adjust your attention here alright so this is where it gets kind of important to know what you're doing to make your microphone sound good so we're gonna hit the equalizer here we're gonna open it up so that we can actually see the frequencies in here so for my microphone it is it's pretty heavy on mids and mids are you know that mid level range of where my vocals sound so there's a good bass to it but there wasn't enough crisp miss to my voice like oh like when I first got this microphone I did a video on it actually there wasn't and my voice did not sound crisp and I did not like it so I came into the equalizer I left the lows which is the 90 to 100 60 Hertz range I left those alone because I do want that nice warm bassy tone to my vocals but I did - 1 dB from the mid-range which is these two right here to get out a little bit of that like muddiness that you get in your vocals and then I boosted the hell out of the high end of my mic so that it sounds crisp and clear so again these are some settings that you're going to adjust on your own depending on what type of microphone you have and the sound that you're going for with your voice so this is what worked for me I took out a little bit in the mids I left the bass and then I boosted the high end a little bit to get a more crisp tone to my voice all right so that's it for that if you want a more in-depth tutorial on this stuff guys for your microphone just let me know and I can do a video on that as well but this is more of setting up your go XLR so then you're gonna come over to the compressor really with the compressor you can kind of leave all these extra settings alone the standard settings are perfectly fine you can just adjust this until you get to a point where it sounds good and it's not too loud basically what a compressor does is it takes low sounds and boosts them higher and high sounds and boots them lower and uh sorry and it takes high sounds and makes them lower so that everything is equal if you if you're looking at your audio as basically a line it keeps everything on the same line rather than having it go up and down up and down up and down so it sounds a little more professional so you definitely want to mess with that and a good thing to know here is that if you do need more gain if your microphone is really gain hungry and you don't have enough in the go XLR you can use make up gain here in the compressor I wouldn't suggest using too much because that's how you get some distortion in your vocals but anyway this isn't a microphone tutorial I just giving you the basic setups here so next we're gonna move over to the mixer tab basically what this is doing here is this is showing all your faders and what what they are assigned to and what you want them to do if you hit the mute button on the bottom of the fader itself so basically all mine are set to is my mic my voice chat my music and then my system sounds which is like my game and he sounds coming out of my PC that's not chat or music and if I hit the mute button it mutes it to the stream and to whatever else you know discord whatever else on my computer so that's how I have mine set up there now this is where you're going to be able to adjust the individual volumes of your faders you can use the faders themselves like if you see me moving the music one right here I'm moving the fader on my actual go XLR and it's moving in the software as well but the important thing to note here is that there are additional channels in your go XLR so you have four faders here but there are more channels that you can use if you want to see like the game channel I don't have a game fader here I don't have a console fader or a line in fader but you can adjust those volumes here and assign things to those channels which we'll get into in a few minutes here obviously this is your lighting tab you can make it look cool however you want this is how I have mine set up the the vaporwave style I kind of really like that but I won't get into lighting too much so back to the settings we're gonna go over now the bleep here this is the volume of this noise right here so if you want to swear on your stream but you don't want people to hear it you want to go you know if you're like what though was that that's what that volume is to bleep so you can adjust that accordingly I found 85% worked for me pretty good and over here your headphones level this is the volume of what's coming out of your headphones that you have plugged into your coax LR so it's important to keep in mind though that the go XLR was designed so that you hear exactly what you're transmitting to your stream okay so so whatever is coming through in these cans that you have on your head that's what people are hearing on your stream and that's the best part about to go XLR it makes it so that it's very if your stream is messed up and your audio is messed up you'll know it before you even go live so it's extremely beneficial so moving on to the routing tab this here is where you get to choose where certain parts of your audio are being sent to so right now if I select this right here this is this means that my microphone is going to come into my headphone so I'm gonna be able to hear my own voice so I'm talking right now and I can hear my voice in my headphones I purse some people like to leave that on while they're streaming some means a little distracting so I know my microphone sounds good because I've tested it right now so I turn that off so I don't hear my microphone in my headphones right here we have it so that my chat which is I use discord so my chat is coming to my headphones because I want to hear my teammates and it's being broadcast to my stream as well so that's how you do that and the same goes for music what I have assigned to my music fader is coming in my headphones and going out to my stream and my system which is my game sounds like I play for tonight so my fortnight audio is going to my headphones and then being broadcast to my stream as well if you're using a dual PC setup you're gonna want this stuff going to the lineout as well I'm not using a dual PC setup anymore because my computer is powerful enough to do it on its own now but if you're using a dual PC setup this right here is where you would send your chat to your other pcs on your music to your other pcs on your mic to your other PC system sounds other PC that's basically how that goes alright so honestly that's really all there is to the software for the go XLR it's pretty simple like I said but here's the tricky part so if you want to go over to routing again we're gonna take a look here so music so I play music through Spotify ok and we want to have our Spotify being controlled by the separate fader that we have here on the go XLR you can see it moving up and down on the software because I'm moving in real life now it took me a little bit to figure out how to do this but you can assign certain programs to these audio channels that are in the go XLR I'm going to show you how to do that right now so the first thing I'm gonna do is we're gonna open up Spotify okay so I have Spotify opened up on my second screen you just need to have it playing or just you know something has to be playing from Spotify for it to show up in the audio channels like we're about to take a look at okay and then you're gonna come down to the bottom to your taskbar right-click on the speaker icon down here and open your sound settings okay and once we're in here you're gonna scroll down advanced sound options at volume and device preferences click on that and now what this is here is it's showing everything in our system right now that is producing some sort of sound and needs to be assigned to a sound channel so right here you could see my Spotify I have it out pudding instead of to the default we don't want it on the default because then it's gonna be in the same channel as our fortnight game sound and we can't you know mix the music accordingly with the fader so you're gonna come to the output channel and select the music go XLR channel now what that does is assign it to the music fader on our go XLR which is pretty sick it's obviously I mean it's so simple but I didn't even know these options were here so I just wanted to let you guys know that so now our music can be controlled with our go XLR fader and everyone's happy and obviously if you have other things that you want to assign to these faders you don't need to keep them as what their label is you can assign whatever you want to these faders my discord I'll show you how I did discord so to do discord you're gonna open up your discord give a second discord takes a little bit to open here alright so my discord is open I'm gonna pull it over to my screen so you guys can see it you're gonna go to your voice and video settings on your input device you're gonna want to make sure that you have your chat mic on the goal XLR selected don't select any other microphones that you have plugged in you're gonna want to use what you have plugged into the go XLR so you're gonna select your chat mic there and then the output this is what you're gonna hear and what your stream here is you're going to choose chat and what this does here is it binds it to this chat fader on the go XLR so the last part of the setup guys is after you've done all that and set up all your audio channels you're gonna bring over your OBS you're going to go to settings audio and you're going to disable every device in here except for one microphone device and under a microphone device you're going to select broadcast remix and that is basically everything that's going through the go XLR everything you hear in your headphones is now being broadcast to OBS which will then be broadcast to your stream in one Channel and it's that simple guys your stream is now up you have audio everywhere you can control all your audio from the go XLR you can EQ your microphone at effects do whatever you want to do and it's that simple this is hands-down the best device that I have purchased for my stream the way I used to do my audio was I used voice meter and I would have that sending signals to my second PC when I use the second PC it was literally a complete pain in the ass and that go XLR I got the go XLR mini because I don't need like the sampler and the voice effects and stuff like that but it has made everything so easy for me and if I do want to switch back to a dual PC setup in the future it's gonna be simple I mean this is it this has just changed the game for me it's so easy and I absolutely love it so if there's anything I missed guys feel free to drop it in the comments below and I'll answer your questions there or if you want to come hang out on the live streams i stream 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday usually you can ask me any questions you want on there or just come hang out you know we have fun we do some fewer games on the weekends it's a good time but if you guys did enjoy this video please be sure to drop a like subscribe to the channel and turn on your post notifications so you don't miss the next time I post a video alright guys so if I miss something I'm sorry just drop it in the comments and I'll try and help from there alright guys so keep your hammers up in the air wait a minute keep your damn hammers up and happy gaming [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Hammer Dance

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Id: I0ceV2vy-HM

Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 05 2020