- In this video, I'm going to be showing you
how you can separate all of your different audio
sources for your stream so that you can have
complete independent control over your game audio, your Discord chat, your music and your microphone without having to spend any money on something like a GoXLR or
an Elgato Wave microphone. And don't worry, I'm not
going to be asking you to install some super complicated
software like Voicemeeter, This new solution can be done
completely within OBS Studio. (gentle music) Just before we dive into the tutorial. I'm sure most of you are
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win-capture-audio plugin for OBS Studio, which I've linked down in the description below. It is worth mentioning that this plugin is still in beta testing, but I've been using it
for the past few weeks and I've had absolutely zero issues. So download either the
executable for easy install or the zip folder if you
want to drag and drop this manually into your plugins folder. Once installed, you should
have this new option in your sources menu called Application Audio Output Capture. But before we go about adding all of our individual audio sources, you want to jump into the settings, go to the audio tab and just
make sure that Desktop Audio and Desktop Audio 2 are
both set to disabled, and this will prevent us
getting any duplicated audio. Whilst we're in here, you
might as well make sure that your Mic auxiliary audio is set to the correct microphone. And then once that's all set up properly, you can click okay to
close down the settings. Since we're going to be adding all of our audio sources individually, it can get quite repetitive
to add them to every single scene that you have. So instead I'd recommend
setting up a nested scene to put all of our individual
audio sources within. To do that, let's add a new scene and name this nice and easily, I like to do [NS] (for nested scene) and then Audio Sources. Okay so let's add our first audio source, which will be our music player. Now it's important to note
that you actually have to have the application open
that you want to capture. So for me, that is Spotify, but if you use iTunes or
Deezer or Amazon Music, you just need to have the application open and ideally playing some music as well. So I'll start playing
some music using Spotify, and then back within OBS
within our nested scene, we want to add a new source using the new Application
Audio Output Capture and then you probably want to name this just to keep things organized. So I'm going to call this
Music since we're going to be capturing our music audio source, and the only option we need
to change here is the window. We want to find the right executable. For me that's Spotify.exe, and then we can leave
the Window Match Priority at Match title otherwise find
a window of same executable, which just means no matter what
song is playing in Spotify, it's going to be capturing the
audio from the application. Everything can be left at their defaults, and then we can click okay. And if we look down
here at the Audio Mixer, we can see that we have a
new meter hit for our music. And if I was to then pause Spotify, you can see the meter
comes back down again and this is completely independent of any of the other sounds
happening on my desktop. So any system sounds of game
sounds or Discord audio, won't be coming through
this music channel. So next you want to repeat this
process of adding your audio sources and capturing the specific window. Maybe you want to do one for
your teammates using Discord one for your game audio,
one for your system sounds or one for your browser audio, if you're the kind of
person that likes to watch things like YouTube,
whilst you're on Stream, once you've gone through and
added all of the different audio sources you want to capture, we can head across to
any of our other scenes, like this example game scene, and actually add the audio
sources nested scene as a source. So come across the sources here, click the plus icon, look for scene and then we're going to add our existing nested scene of audio sources and you can see, as soon as I click that, we then in our Audio Mixer, get the options for all of
the different audio sources that we added within that nested scene. So now you have complete
independent control over all of your different audio
sources for your stream. So if you need to change
volumes or mute certain sources, or even add advanced filters to individual sources, you can do so. A couple of advanced bonus tips. If you own something like a Stream Deck, you can add keys to individually control each of these audio sources. So without having to alt-tab, you can quickly lower the volume of your teammates in Discord, for example. You do need to use the OBS
Tools plugin from Bar Raider. But once you've done that, you can just drag onto a
certain key on your Stream Deck and then control an OBS
Audio Source directly. Or so if you want OBS Studio
to automatically lower and raise your music volume, when you start and stop speaking, you can do that by doing
something called audio ducking or side chaining directly with an OBS. All you have to do is add a
filter to your music source, which is the compression filter. And then on the Sidechain/Ducking source, you set that to be your microphone. Now you probably have to
play with some of the other settings here, like ratio and threshold. If you want to learn
exactly how to do that, I have a really quick but
detailed four minute guide that I'll leave linked
up in the top corner, as well as in the description down below. Finally, if you haven't yet added any filters to your microphone, I'd absolutely recommend
you check out my five steps to make your microphone sound pro video, where I go through how
you can use OBS studio to add filters to your microphone
to make it sound better. It's a banger, I promise. If you've enjoyed this video, please do give it a
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