- The virtual
cam option in Ecamm Live lets you use all of your
scenes, graphics, and overlays and whatever else with Zoom. But unfortunately it doesn't
send an audio signal. Now I must've been out
of the loop on Loopback because I've only recently discovered it as an awesome tool for looping
your audio back into Zoom. (upbeat music) So let's loop back around and talk about what's
so great about Loopback. But first this is not a sponsored video, I did purchase loopback at the full price and unfortunately it's not free software, I purchased it for, I think a hundred dollars
was the price at the time, which can seem a little steep because a hundred dollars
definitely is not cheap. However, if you're somebody
who uses Zoom and Ecamm and encounters this problem a lot of needing to move your
audio from Ecamm to Zoom, that $100 can really be a lifesaver. And I know for me, it really was because I kept having this
problem over and over again. And fortunately, Loopback
is not a subscription plan, it's a single payment price situation. So once you pay once, you just
have the software forever. And basically what Loopback does, is it lets you route virtually audio sources all within your computer. So you can have an output
going into any input, you can mix and match
things and merge things. Basically anything you can think of in terms of routing audio
within your system, you can do. Now it is for Mac only
and when you install it, it's going to ask you to do something that feels a little bit strange at first but I promise it's okay. I didn't expect this or know this when I first
installed it a few months ago, so I don't have footage of it, but when you install loopback, a thing's gonna pop up that says you need to reboot
your computer into safe mode and it's gonna give you some
very simple instructions on some permissions that you
need to grant for loopback. This feels very shady at first. You just download
something from the internet and now it's like, yeah, go
into the route of your computer and grant access to all this stuff. But all that you're doing is you're giving Loopback permission to modify all the audio
within your system. It's not touching anything else. And the instructions to do it are very simple and very clear. But if you've never done
something like that before, like I hadn't, it might
feel a little bit strange but I'm just reassuring you, it is okay and you won't break anything. And the reason you need to do that is so that you do give loopback permission to just take control of all the audio or at least it has the
ability to take control because if you're not using it, it can just disappear into the background as much as you want and not even be used but as soon as you need
it, you can bring it up and then explore the magic of loopback. Now, I wasn't able to get
around this for a while by using the Rodecaster
Pro as my main audio source so that is where all
my audio is going into. And I was even having my system audio run into the Rodecaster and then routing it back into
the system to use with Zoom. And that helped me to get some
audio from Ecamm into Zoom but it still caused some problems because routing the system
audio, and then back into Zoom, if people in the Zoom
meeting needed to speak and have their voices heard
it just got a little confusing and loopback makes
things a little simpler. So if you're trying to
play Ecamm sound effects, or you're trying to play
a video file through Ecamm or anything where you
need to get the audio from Ecamm into Zoom in
a full mixed situation, this is definitely the
easiest way to do it. So right here is my Ecamm
Live and if I click on Output, then I can see that the
virtual cam is turned on. But like I mentioned at the
beginning of this video, virtual cam only effects video not audio. So here's Loopback, and what this does is it lets you create
a virtual audio device. And this is pretty much
what we're going to create. So I'll walk you through
step-by-step it can look as simple or advanced as you want, obviously, if you're looking
at where is it this right here? It looks a little funky, it almost looks like you're
doing some Blender animation or some DaVinci Resolve editing, but all we're gonna do, is
create a new virtual device. And this is the basic setup
that you're gonna end up with but before we jump into that, I'm gonna change the name of
this to Ecamm Virtual Audio Exclamation point. And so what we're looking at here as we've got different audio sources or we have the ability to
add different audio sources, we've got our output channels. So where's that audio going? And we also have the
ability to monitor our audio and you can just keep
adding in new sources and all kinds of new stuff. This default pass through option, we don't really need. So I'm gonna click on it and delete it. And now we have no audio sources. So I'm gonna add in Ecamm
Live not the Notes app. I'm gonna add in Ecamm Live. Remember when I said you can do anything, apparently you could have the Notes app. So we've got Ecamm here, however, you're gonna notice there's still no audio showing up, which is why this can be so frustrating because in my Ecamm on my computer, I'm seeing the Rodecaster audio bouncing. I'm recording this into Ecamm right now, so clearly the audio is there. If I were to stream to
YouTube or Twitch or wherever, the audio would be there but it's just getting it out
to Zoom that doesn't work. Now there's this little
options box down here and it says "Mute when capturing," I'm gonna uncheck that. And now we're going to add
in a second audio source since all of my audio is running
through the Rodecaster Pro, I'm gonna add the Rodecaster
Pro stereo as an audio source. And in your situation, just select whichever
audio source you're using. So if you're using a different interface like the Focusrite, you'll
be able to select that, if you're just using a single USB mic, whatever your audio source is, that's what you select right here. And if you're in an
advanced audio situation I would think something
may be involving music, you can also add more
than just one other source in addition to Ecamm. Now the Rodecaster doesn't
have the same mute option, so we're just gonna keep that
there at a hundred percent. And now this is sort of the
weird thing that's happening, is we see both of these are automatically going into
output channels one and two, you see left and right stereo signals. And what's strange is Ecamm
is still showing nothing, but the Rodecaster is showing audio because that's where the
audio is coming from. And so the simplest way I
can think of explaining it is that basically loopback is taking Ecamm which is not sending out an audio signal, and then it's taking the Rodecaster and it's just sort of
smashing them all together and throwing them out as a new source. And I have named that
source Ecamm virtual audio. So now if I go into Zoom
and I open up Preferences, you can see my Ecamm virtual audio that we just created is right there. One other quick tip if
you're not already doing this when you're in your Zoom audio settings, you can select the option that says, "Show in-meeting option to
"Enable Original Sound." And then when you do that, let's
start a meeting real quick. So here's my Zoom meeting. It's infinitely great as you can see. Because I selected that
option right up here, it says, "Turn On Original Sound. If I click that, now it's gonna take away
all of Zoom's processing and it's just going to
be my original audio. So sometimes zoom tries to be helpful by deciding it's gonna cancel out echoes and it's gonna reduce background noise and do all this stuff. But if you've already
got a decent audio setup that can sometimes cause
more harm than good, and so by turning that off, now you're putting
everything into your control. And if you've got a decent audio setup that can actually make
things sound a lot better and a lot more clear, it's not gonna be perfect of course because it is still Zoom, but it's gonna sound significantly better. And just remember though you're gonna have to turn this on or off every time you start a meeting. So by default, your original
audio will be turned off every time you start a meeting or every time you join a meeting and you'll have to click that
button every single time. And so this right here is
the basic setup that you need to send a virtual audio signal
out to Zoom using loopback. And hopefully as you sort
of notice by me accidentally even adding in the nodes app, the options are basically limitless. So kind of like Ecamm, one of
my favorite things about it is that it can be so simple or it can be crazy
complex if you want it to. If you have an idea of like,
could I do this or that, there's probably a way to do it in Ecamm, Loopback is kind of the same thing where it can be very simple and very basic and it can just send
one signal to one place or if you have some crazy idea of like, I need to route this
here and send this here and mix these two together
and put those there, you can totally do it. And you can create basically
an unlimited number of virtual devices. So if you're using loopback
with different applications maybe you've got Ecamm audio for Zoom but you've got other applications for other things that you do, you can just keep those there
and just switch between them at any time, or they will all just show up as sources in your application. And as I mentioned, I kind of live on Zoom and Ecamm is one of my favorite tools. So here's a few other
Zoom and Ecamm videos. If you like them, you
can leave them on loop until you want to come
back and watch more videos until you want to loopback, loop back feeling a little loopy
from these puns today. (upbeat music)
