In this video, I’ll show you how to separate all of your different audio sources for your stream so you can have complete control over your game audio, Discord chat, music, and microphone without having to use any third-party software. I’m not going to ask you to spend any money on something like a Go Xlr or an Elgato Wave Microphone, and don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to install any software. This New Solution Can Be Completely Done Within Obs Studio Just Before We Dive Into The Tutorial I’m Sure Most Of You Are Well Aware By Now That Twitch Recently Suffered A Major Security Breach
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Everything can be left at the defaults, and then we can click Ok. If we look down here at the Audio Mixer, we can see that we have a new meter here for our music, and if I were to pause Spotify, you can see that the meter comes back down again, and this is completely independent of any other sounds on my desktop, so any system sounds, game sounds, or Discord audio won’t be coming through this music channel. One for your Discord team, one for your game audio, one for your system sounds, and one for your browser audio If you like to watch things like Youtube while you’re streaming, once you’ve gone through and added all of the different audio, sources you want to capture, we can move on to any of our other scenes, such as this example game scene. And Actually Add The Audio Sources Nested Scene As A Source So Come Across To 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 So Come Across To Sources Here Click The Plus, Icon Look For Scene And Then We're Going To Add Our Existing Nested Scene Of Audio Source
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 You can even add advanced filters to individual sources. A couple of advanced bonus tips If you own something like a Stream Deck, you can add keys to control each of these sources individually.
You Can Quickly Lower The Volume Of Your Teammates In Discord For Example Without Having To Alt Tab You Do Need To Use The Obs Tools Plugin From Var Radar 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 If You Want Obs Studio To Automatically Lower And Raise Your Music Volume When You Start And Stop Speaking You Can Do That By Using Something Called Audio Ducking If you haven’t yet added any filters to your microphone, I strongly advise you to watch my Five Steps To Make Your Microphone Sound Pro video, in which I walk you through how to use Obs Studio to improve the sound of your microphone.
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