Connecting sound from OBS to Zoom or Teams 

Big problem with this kind of route is that you cant hear/ monitor yourself in the case where I am playing my midi keyboard and sending it out to zoom, i cant hear what am playing because i have designated the monitor to the virtual cable

This has to be the simplest, most to the point explanation out there! Thanks a lot man 🙌

Also works for discord, google meet, and other apps!

Hi.. Jamie I had follow you video tutorial , everything work fine. ONLY 1 thing issue, I can't solve was how to I can listen back voice that had broadcast to the meeting, Because I had add filter reverb in the broadcasting Mic. In my headphone I only heard my original sound without effect which I had added.

You absolute legend!!! Went through about 40 RU-vid tutorials and installed 3 different programs to do this and nothing worked. Thank you so much for this wonderful video!

Omg thank you so much. I’ve been trying to automate my class attendance for an experiment and I couldn’t figure out the audio. Thanks mate!

Now i can rickroll my class like a pro

VB-Cable is not really "free" to use beyond testing/evaluation. The vendor expects a donation if you decide to keep using it after the "free download". Further, if you intend to use it for a "non-personal" purpose, you are required to purchase a license. Let's all start understanding that not all software vendors should be expected to give their hard work away for free -- even though some do... for them, kudos... but on the other side of the coin, "a workman is worthy of his hire".

THAAAANK YOU! This is the only video ( I have seen a bunch) that points out you need to enable "output and monitor" in OBS! Without it Blackhole 16Ch is dead. Took me ages to figure that out thanks to you! Subbed

I spent so much time with voicemeter's complexity. This has been the simplest method to connecting my optimized OBS audio to Zoom (or any communication app). Thank you very much Jamie!

So my issue is if you use the Virtual cable output under OBS Settings-Audio-Monitoring so that your guests can hear everything happening on the stream, I can no longer hear anything as their is only 1 Audio output in OBS. any solutions to this? I use Airpods and a blue Yeti Mic. I can have the sound come through my computer but not my airpods

Not clear how to have desktop sounds mixed with the microphone sound and Streamed into zoom

Thanks man! I tried following other RU-vid instructions and got nothing. This was the only one that was easy to follow and get my Audio from OBS into Teams and Zoom. Now I can add the noise filters and get my audio in sync with OBS. So happy.

At last someone explained this clearly!!!! THANKS, THANKS, THANKS!!!!

If you add a 200 msec delay in obs sound, will the virtual cable get that delayed sound? (Or does Obs add the delay downstream of the monitor output point?)

Brilliant explanation Jamie, thank you. This all seems to work well.. but I get no audio playback from my prerecorded OBS inserts as they are playing out on zoom.. the other participants do get audio though. I've been through all my speaker settings but nothing seems to work..any thoughts?

Thank you! I had the virtual audio cable and couldn't work it out... Thanks to your video I realised that I had the audio monitoring turned off

its so funny cuz all these teachers are thanking this guy for helping out with lessons when im out here using this to zoom bomb

If I'm understanding this, these instructions are **not** for also getting the Zoom output back into OBS if you want to record the session in OBS. For that, you get the VB-Cable A+B version and add the steps of having Zoom send the sound and OBS pick it up. This way, participants will also be recorded by OBS. This is one of the vids that covers that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z-GnOZhaXTk.html

At 74, I consider myself lucky to have successfully conducted a Zoom mtg with my best friend! I’m using OBS, Hero 9 for video capture and a Fifine mic for audio capture. Wore earbuds to monitor MY voice and that’s where HER voice was, too. Is it possible to hear OTHER voices via the 🖥’s speakers? If so, please give some guidance. Thanks…in advance.

maybe I missed something but none of y'all tell people what to do with Microsoft sound setting. how do y'all miss one of the most important thing I guess it's off to a another instructional video for virtual cables

Great tutorial ! Not sure why there isn’t a lot of views yet ! Thx 👍

Thank you for this direct, to-the-point tutorial Jamie! This is EXACTLY what I was looking to do. I have a question! Since the cable will be MONITORING the audio, will I be able to set the output in OBS to "Monitor only"?

This is great both I have a question. I have my mic coming in as a source and a loopback channel that plays music, etc etc. Now I setup a 2nd channel for my OBS output going to zoom. The issue is in my AirPods I not hear my voice double :(. Please help.

O.M.G. THANK YOU for explaining this so clearly - at last I understand!!!

Thank you, got audio from OBS to Zoom. Now I don´t have audio to hear it on my laptop and I selected the virtual cable for monitoring device. Any way to get audio also in my speakers? Thank you

dude, i cannot hear sound

Awesome thanks a lot for this. Saved me a lot of frustration. Using an M1 Mac with Big Sur AND a Canon Camera hooked up with Canon Webcam Utilities. And those Utilities don't work with M1 native software yet. In Zoom for example, Google Meets etc. Thus I was streaming my Canon via an older OBS version (compiled for Intel) but that way the Audio is faster than the Video, because Video needs to pass through OBS and the Virtual Camera Plugin first, while the Audio goes directly into Zoom, Google Meets or what have you. With a virtual Audio Cable I can now pass Audio though OBS as well, delay it for 200ms to now match perfectly with my lip movements. THANKS A LOT!

finally i found the answer . on the new version you need to select zoom background noise removal and select low

Mannn! You are a life saver... Works like a charm. Clear and precise. Thankyou

Thanks your fantastic video demonstration. I hope you could resolve my problem encountered in OBS NDI. I had installed (i) OBS, (ii) obs-ndi NewTek (windows installer version) and (iii) NDI virtual input (received email for installation) into my Lenovo notebook x1 Gen 6. However, I selected the NDI Output Settings to OBS, the system tray for OBS virtual camera was not able to show OBS output, it showed remote computer only. Therefore, there was no audio input (i.e. Microphone) sound output from OBS to Zoom meeting. Many thanks.

thanks so much! Very helpful. Now I just need to figure out how to get my ppt sound to obs, to go to zoom. I will see if you have answer to that too.

I tried this but I want to also hear all my desktop audio. When I did this, I can't hear anything through the headphones connected to the PC.

Thank you so much. s all the people here say it is the best explanation. Now it is 2 years later. I try to send also the Sound from a video to Zoom, but doesn't work. It is noch clear if media source is sufficient and the only thing I had to add or if I have to add something like desktop audio (which does not longer exist in den ops version 30.1.1

Thanks very much - I'd got 90% of the way there in my own setup, but I'd missed one step which you covered here (setting the Monitoring device in OBS)!

I followed all these steps and got my mic to broadcast through the virtual cable but when I try to play a RU-vid video my guest can't hear the sound, but I can. Why is this?

I’ve done all you said and getting sound in zoom. There is an issue. When using my Canon M50 as my video capture device within OBS, the sound quality is poor within Zoom(crackling) When using my Logitech Brio as my video capture device, the sound within Zoom is clear. Do you know of any fix for this? I want to use my Canon.

OMG I love you man, thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for ❤️️❤️️

this is so helpful, we've looking for solutions for a while now

Excellent and completely clear. You've explained the meaning of what's happening as well as what to do. Now I know what's happening, I will be able to troubleshoot much more easily. Thank you very much!

Hello, i've been looking for hours and hours to achieve the same things but from obs to discord, simplier and less confusing tutorial ! Thanks alot !

I don''t think this actually works. Now your conversation partners can hear both your microphone and your computer audio, but you will either not hear the computer audio or not hear the other people in the call. If you route both incoming call audio and computer audio to the same output, others speaking will dampen the computer audio and they'll hear their own voice back. So you're missing something here.

I am searching for hours now and i am doing everything as you and other tutorials say, but i can still hear myself in OBS because of the Monitoring. How do I fix it?

for me this works only partially: my audience in calls here's now the sounds of the videos I play. However, now I can't hear them anymore...

does OBS has to be opened in the background during the zoom meeting?

hey you are awesome..its worked thanks man

Thanks. I'm now a subscriber :-) Is there a similar option/step to choose "original audio" in Ms Teams?

I don’t get it. I’ve done these steps multiple times and it simply won’t work for me. I get no audio coming into zoom.

Subbed for the brogue. Zoom sees my virtual cable, I selected it for mic, but no signal on mic check.

After I download VB Audio didn't see anything other than my orginal speaker on the obs setting as you show in the video...

I installed months ago and coming back to this video, you saved me again... I DID A ROOKIE MISTAKE and I use OBS to send to MS Teams and I had sent my headset (what I hear) and it was monitoring and outputing...no wonder why people said they could hear echo...

Only place I actually found help. Thanks, mate

How do you make this sound so simple ? Ur really good at explaining, keep up the great work thank u so much

This helped me so much, thank you. now I can have movie nights with friends without audio problems :)

Now I can't hear anything in OBS. Is that suppose to happen?

Thanks. Now I'm set.

Excellent tutorial. I'm a subscriber now.

thanks mate, great video but I cannot get this working so hopefully you can help :) I find music distracting when playing video games so I want for the viewers to hear it but not me. I bought all for A, B, C and D virtual cables. I separated the sound like this, A for the music source (Chrome RU-vid free copyright music) - I want this to only be heard by my stream viewers and not me. B - for my main game I play, C for another game and D for another game. I play and stream with OBS Studio all these 3 games. However because in App volume and devices preferences, Master volume is set to Output in the Headphones, I hear all of them including the music - how can I make it so I don't hear the music? Thanks mate :)

How can i monitor with headphones if I'm using the monitor out for the virtual cable?

Such a simple and straightforward tutorial. Thank you!

Thank you really much. This is the only tutorial that worked for me.

I usually monitor and output each scene's audio to the same virtual cable. It allows me to hear all my scene's audio headphones and output to teams. When I try to mic from OBS, I monitor and output the mic to that same virtual cable, I can hear my echo of the mic being monitored through the virtual cable to the headphones. If I separate channels, I either can't hear the obs audio. Is there a way to output the mic to the same channel as the others scenes but not have it play through the same channel I use to hear through obs.

Thanks a lot for the video and the link ! 👍🏼

used this for tiktok live studio thank you so much

I just realised that this was posted on my birthday 😳

after 2:12 the microphone feedback occur on my computer, how to fix it?

Wow.....It's really Work..... easy to be done.... thank you so much

when i try to download the VB audio it says the driver may be corrupted

I get an echo of all my system sounds with this method - anyone got any clues?

so, how am I to hear the audio that I'm sending from obs? thanks, anyone

What sucks is that I lose audio monitoring. Is there another solution?

I’ve followed your advice but getting horrendous feedback when selecting monitor and output. I have the monitoring device set to the virtual cable. I might add I’m using a Mac. Can you advise how to fix this ?

easiest to follow tutorial since idk how long ago 👍

I have a problem. I want to use it, but I don't want my friends (on Discord) to hear themselves while i'm talking. Is there a solution ?

hii my video was very qulity that software dosent work how i fix it

does OBS need to be running in the background when your using either Teams or Zoom. ?

Excellent works great ! thank you

is there an app like blackhole but for windows ?

Does this work for Discord Virtual Cam?

Loved it, subscribed. Just one suggestion: it would be great if you explain how using OBS audio feed in Zoom would actually be a better experience.

students are watching this video while online school

Mr Gallagher....Hallelujah hahahaha seriously dude, thank you so much for making this video and for it being so easy to follow. I've been pulling what hair out (what I have left) hahaha. You have a new sub 🤘🏼

Hi Jamie, excellent video! I am using an external mixer for my microphone and sound, however, I want to place a looping audio from Obs to zoom. Is this the same procedure...only naming my external mixer instead of a virtual cable? Do I still need to download a virtual cable when I have actual cables to a mixer? I'm not getting the sound into zoom, even though it appears to be showing up in my audio mixer in OBS. (Even though I can't hear it anywhere.) Thank you in advance! :)

currently trying this out and its working easily (MS teams). however, the audio quality (playing some music) is BAD (!!). cant find any setting that actually improves anything (320kbit or 48hz stereo etc all set)

are we able to have a quick chat if that is ok with you

Tell 'em what ya gonna tell 'em. Then Tell 'em! Then tell 'em what you told 'em! Brilliant explanation very well done. made my life so much easier! Grateful thanks from Australia....

Hi, I have my mic setup on my webcam scene in obs following your tutorial. But the problem came when I switch to my pause scene (which no mic setup there because i want my mic to be off on this scene), zoom is keep listening to my mic because seems like the monitor and output function in obs make the mic sound is always sent to the blackhole virtual mic, no matter what scene is currently active in obs, still very confusing

That was super helpful. Thank you!

Hi, I am wondering whether the Audio Monito plugin of OBS will help? Is it better than virtual cables? Thank you

the thing is i cant hear the audio myself tho

Thank you, this was key.

Yes sir works I wanna troll my zoom class tmr

Thank you so much. You have a great knowledge of OBS and zoom. Hope you will rise to a great height as technical teacher

Thank you. I found it useful

Hi I installed the VB Audio (even though it's for Windows 7). It doesn't appear in OBS in settings / audio / advanced / monitoring device Any ideas what I need to do for it to appear? Thank you

Great vid! Thank you mate

Simple and clear thanks mate !

I get crazy because I don't know how to stop hearing my voice in my headphones. With your solution this is not possible.

a great help, thank you sir

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