#Virtual Audio Mixing
So in the past I have had issues with audio volumes/balancing, today I tried out this virtual audio mixer that helped me make sure that everyone in skype, myself, and the game audio were correctly balanced. Both xsplit and obs make it a little hard to balance audio, so if you have had issues with that, I recommend this.
So both of these programs are dontionware, so they are free. You will need both Virtual Audio Cable and Voicemeeter from http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm
So voicemeeter is a virtual mixer, that has 3 inputs and outputs. You should mess around with it, but how I have it set up is:
Input:
Cable Output(this is for skype, I have Cable Input as my output in skype)
Microphone
Virtual Cable(I have this set to default in the playback device)
Output:
Speakers/Headset(I route skype and the virtual cable to this)
Virtual Cable(I route everything to this for xsplit)
Because everything is handled with this, I set the virtual output as my microphone on xsplit, and mute the computer audio
If you have any questions feel free to PM me, or try to hit me up on my twitch channel, I have the IRC channel open almost 24/7.
So they have a better version out now, it has extra inputs/outputs and has other features, you can download it here It’s called Voicemeeter banana. I think this installs Virtual Audio Cable, so try downloading just this to start with.
#SoundCloud Display
So I used to play music while I streamed, depending on the game, and I used Pandora. I wanted to move away from that and start using royalty free music, and I found there is a lot of it on SoundCloud.
So I wrote up a little program that will start up chrome and open up SoundCloud with a separate window that will display all the song info. You can use Xsplit/OBS to hook into that window so you don’t have to worry about another screen overlapping it.
SoundCloudViewer
I have included the exe in the project so you do not have to compile it, but you will need chrome installed and be running windows. You can just download the whole thing as a Zip, under the “Clone or download” button, and run the exe. The exe is located at “SoundCloudViewer/SoundCloudViewer/bin/Debug”
Also I have added a feature where it will output all the songs played, and the URL for them into a text file that will live in C://temp I’ve been using this so I can give credit when I export to youtube. You can ignore it if you don’t care about that though.
Hopefully some of you find this useful, you can PM me if you have any questions.