Get Audio from your DAW to OBS for live streaming 

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out in the comments and I will answer what I can for you 😀

The double gain trick is VERY helpful my gosh

I must be some type of special, I chose audio output this entire time... thank you for the wonderful tutorial and your extreme patience for something that is clearly undiagnosed.

Dude.. I struggled with his shit for hours. I come across this video. Simple fix.. you are a fuckin legend 🤘

THANK YOU! I was having a hell of a time figuring this crap out after OBS updated and broke the setup I had before. Your video got me back up and running. The gain tip at the end was perfect, too.

good lord... took forever to find a video that actually works. Definitely liking and subscribing. Thanks for the video!

You're a f****** legend mate... I swear I watched a dozen videos, over 4 hours last night trying to make it work, and this worked instantly. Thank you for sharing.

This is the best video on this subject. Like everyone else commenting, I watched dozens of these videos and, while their intentions were good, most of them missed extremely important steps in the process. This was well thought out and thorough and actually works. Thank you.

Amazing, straight to the point and it worked perfectly. All the waffle of all the other 20 minute videos of other content creators are just plain rubbish and didn't work. Thanks! Subscribed

Bro I've been trying everything for weeks.. thank you so so much for this easy and simple tutorial!!

This is the only tutorial that worked for me, thank you so much man!

You're a legend! Great! Simple and effective!

The gain trick solved all my problems. Thanks a ton!

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I've been trying to figure this out for the longest!

The simplest and the best..thanks really

DUDE YOU JUST SAVED MY DAY

It really Worked for me .... really easy to follow the steps . THANK YOU!!!!!

Stumbled on your vid, and I do have the 3rd gen interface. Would love the video on that. Great playing and singing man. Really good. Thanks for the video bud. Keep it up *Subscribed*

Thanks a lot mate, this was incredibly helpful, very clean solution!

Worked perfectly. Thank you so much

thanks for the tutorial fam, setting this up rn 🙏🔥

This is by far the best tutorial on this subject. I have been 18 months now trying to get it to work. One tip I found through trial an error was that when I played back my youtube live streams (electric acoustic guitar and vocal, 2 tracks) there was massive interference/crackle making it unusable. I found that deleting midi tracks on Ableton solved this. While the vocal recording is not totally dry the audio effects are not fully functioning on the live stream compared to recording a song using the same effects/plugins.

tysm for a quick and easy to understand video!

thank you sir, looking foward for that 3rd gen video :D

Been searching for something like for a while. There are many videos on YT doing the same exact thing only without the double gain before the VST to silence the DI input. Finally I can get rid of the DI sound, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Thank you for this!

Thank you so much, this video was super helpful!

great content very helpful

Thank you so much for this video!

Thank you so much. You made my day.🤘❤‍🔥

You are the man! Thank you

Hey Thank you so much for doing this. The part with adding the gain twice and going to -30db is key. I couldnt get rid of the direct input while playing guitar but that did it. Hero status sir

mate you life saver wtf thanks

Thanks for sharing!

Awesome many many thanks!

YO! I got a new pc and had to set all this up again and forgot the steps. This is perfect dude and hope you're well. Thanks :)

I did this with Synchronous Audio Router routing Cakewalk Mic to OBS.

Thanks bro!!!

Thank you! worked :) only took me like 3 years to figure it out lmao

You can also put the capture device to something not being used instead of default and then you don't have to put the 2 gain reduction plugins on there.

thank you crazy tips .

Thank you G!!!!

Noice! I do the same thing, but have a 3rd Gen Focusrite! 👀 looking forward to the follow up vid! I’m😅

Thank you very much for this tutorial, help me a lot appreciate it man 🤘🤘

Wow thank you sir (subscribed!!) this actually worked on OBS 29 tested today. I had issues with running virtual cables and REAStream with all the other tutorials until this one. Thanks again. Quick question: How do I adjust latency within OBS to Twitch utilizing the master track settings? Is there a setting? Any help is greatly appreciated.

J’ai cherché pendant plusieurs heures et tutos et c’est t’as solution qui a marché merci beaucoup 🙏

big love u mate ! it works ! kiss from Russland

You saved my day!

BRO I STG IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT FOR YEARS THANK YOU

Great! Thanks !

appreciate it man

Thank you so much !

This has worked for me 99 percent of the way. I can’t get my dry interface audio to go away even with the gain doubled with -30db. They are in the right order as well

Thank you👊

thank you

Cheers need to try this since the latest update of obs doesn't support win-asio

Great❤

Great video, thanks. There are a couple of things I am having trouble with: 1) For the computer’s audio settings, should they still be set to the interface or do you set them to the virtual cable? 2) When I follow these instructions, my voice and processed guitar goes into Obs and Zoom fine, but my virtual instruments in my DAW aren’t being heard by the other person in Zoom even though they’re coming through on the meters. This is using an M-Audio MIDO controller. Any ideas? What I’m trying to do is set up a project in my DAW in which I have a mic on one track, a guitar sim on another track and a piano VST on another track. So, if I were to give a guitar lesson, I could talk, play guitar and piano.

thaaaank youuuuu

Great video! I have a question about a slightly different setup, if I may. Can I put the plugin on a mixbus, so I can pick which tracks I want to stream? I ask this because I’d like to have a clicktrack running during my livestream when I’m improvising, but I don’t want to include the clicktrack in my stream’s audio. 😊

Great explanations Chris, so how do I send my audio to obs is it with usb I am a little confused between the daw and obs Tnx!

tnx bro

Got a new subscriber out of me!

Awesome tutorial. I would add that the sample rate in the DAW and in OBS have to be the same or else OBS won't receive anything

Works with Cakewalk, thanks

I have a simple question, but first I'd like to say thank you so much for this video it really helped me on this issue! So when you have it all setup do you hear everything on your headphones with effects etc? If so where do you enable it, in the DAW or the OBS? Does it have a delay? Thank you so much mate, greetings from Brazil!

I have reaper but will it work with cakewalk

YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

the video for the focusrite 3rd gen??

I need to figure out how to do this with Sonar and 12 tracks for my drums. Been trying to figure out how to do this for years!!!!

last time i tried this, there was a significant delay caused by restream plugin, any thoughts on this?

I don't get sound when i add the two -30 db gains . . . ok I got the sound by selecting in in monitorization or by arming the track with the record button I looks like It is getting the default sound first then the reapluggin

where's the tutorial on the loopback feature of focusrite interfaces?

Have you by any chance figured out a way to route the metronome out of Ableton into OBS? I think the only workaround I found is to create a midi channel and map out the click sounds.

Great tutorial buddy! Now let me make a little challenging for you. What if i'm using a pc only for DAW mixing and a different one for broadcasting? How can i send that DAW output to another PC? Thanks a lot!

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Thanks for the video, Im using this for streaming drum sessions but I have a problem. Im able to capture the audio from DAW into OBS and send it to the stream, but when I play the drums on top of a song on RU-vid, The audio comming from my DAW has an offset. Even though Im playing it on time. How can I fix this?

dont have AAX for protools

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video homie. I seem to have a delay on OBS side from Able. any suggestions on how to fix?

i get mic delay what is your latency settings to keep a clean sound with your mic and no delay

Isn't audio input capture in OBS for microphones? I've trying doing what you have done in video and my options are 1 Default 2 Microphone Apollo Twin Thunderbolt. When I choose default, it just uses the microphone of my Webcam. So not quite sure what I've missed here! Thanks for the video

Hi, I really enjoy your video, excellent and easy to follow instructions. Now, I do have a problem that I cannot find a video on it. I have a Nexigo N620E USB camera on my Desktop, a Mackie Profx 6v3 and a Rode NT1 microphone, and using Reaper as my DAW, wanting to record myself performing with my guitar and also live stream on Facebook. Can't figure out yet how to connect all that, and been looking for a video but can't find it so far. Do you have any suggestion for me or instructions on that, or a video already on this matter. I will truly appreciate your help. Thanks so much ahead of time for your input.

Gtreat Bro💯

This has been super helpful but for some reason no matter what folder I drop these plugins into I can't get OBS to read that they exist. I've tried putting the plugins in every folder I've found that contains plugins that ARE being recognized by OBS but these REA plugins just aren't showing up. OBS 29.1.3, same versions of the REA plugins you have here. I got it into Ableton without issue, but OBS just won't see them. Any ideas?

One question (I’ve been meaning to ask this for months): I end up with my audio input capture, which I’ve renamed to my DAW (Sonar). I also end up with a track called “mic.” When I play music from the DAW, BOTH meters are lighting up. Is that what’s supposed to happen or am I suppose to mute one? This is the only part I don’t understand. Oh, and one more thing: I imagine the volume faders in the DAW should affect what’s coming into OBS, correct? So, if you are playing a project from your DAW and turn up the fader on the snare, for instance, you should hear that in OBS, correct?

Hello, I have a focusrite scarlett 2i2 2nd gen interface. Do you know if this is the best method to capture ableton live and transmit using obs studio, or do you know another better alternative for my setup? Greetings from Argentina.

i am using studio one when i open only show me the option reastream 12 but on obs is not showing any signal

When playing guitar and using a DAW I get latency from the guitar and it doesn't line up with the DAW. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Hi Chris , i just started using rea-stream , but when I look back at the recorded video it seems to be very choppy and unaudible I've tired different audio interfaces and different buffer / sample rates but cant get my daw audio clean while recoding on obs

Quick question where can I find my Master Channel? im new to Studio one so sorry.

I just got the focusrite 18i8 and obs isn't getting any signal from my daw or mic inputs! I'm losing my mind every vid I see and follow the steps doesn't work for me. Help! 😢

I did everything step by step but my audio still goes into obs as mono yet it comes out of ableton as stereo. Helpppp

my audio only streams in mono, how do i get to work in stereo? thanks

Hey there friend, I really need some help with something. I’m wanting to add preset vocals fx onto my Obs Studio, such as fx that they have on bandlab recording studio already ready to use. I Just don’t know where to find all of the presets and how I’m supposed to install/add the presets onto Obs studio. Please help

Idk why but I installed the plug-ins and ableton just can’t seem to find them they are not in the plug-ins section at all

What if you use a custom vst2 folder on an external drive in ableton? How do I get it to show up in plug ins? I tried putting a shortcut from the system vst folder to my custom one but it doesnt work.

Nice, i'm having an issue tho. my obs is only detecting some of the plugins.

I can't find reaplugs in ableton, installed to both the VST2 and VST3 folders - thanks for the tutorial regardless :)

I only have ASIO for focusrite and it just does not work. what do i do???