@@pantyburp very easy. I played with each Fx to see which worked or didnt. Main one i wanted was the condenser (?) To get rid of the fan noise in my mic! Thanks again
Absolutely! There are a lot of effects but ReaFir (background noise) and EQ are definitely the most important. I would consider the others to be nice-to-have effects except maybe the compressor, but that one can be tricky to get sounding right.
awesome glad it helped and thanks for the sub! Yea I tried to not dig too deep into the Voicemeeter setup since there are a lot of videos out there to help get that all set up properly otherwise I felt like the video could have been too long (and 15 minutes already felt a tad long). I mainly wanted to get Reaper and Voicemeeter to play nice together so that you could stream using VST plugins.
I might have missed something but when I enable my fx the mic stops working. Nothing is moving in voicemeeter either. When I disable fx it works immediately again.. Do you know the fix for this? I'm only trying to use reafir
You should de-ess the extremely sibilant sound in your recording too tbh since you're going through all the trouble. Most mics on the market today are ridiculously sibilant and need filtered to not be piercing.
Huge help! The genius that made my monitor decided to put the transformer inline about 1 foot from the monitor itself so I am getting a hum from it and can't move it. Reafir completely eliminated it and doesn't affect my voice at all from what I can tell.
Awesome! Yea the Reafir helps a ton, I can have 2 large fans blowing on me and my mic wont pick up either of them with that plug-in. Glad it worked out for ya
So I've actually got another question for ya, curious if you have any answers. I tested out my setup on a Discord call, and the person on the other end ended up telling me that my voice was cracking a ton and sounded horrible, even though listening to myself it sounded fine. Let me try to lay out the paths: USB mic raw audio in --> VM Hardware In 1 --> VM out channel 2 L/R (Virtual Cable A) using the method you laid out here --> Reaper with the effects youve laid out --> VM Hardware in 4 --> VM Hardware Out 1 (My Headphones) and 2 (Virtual Cable B) -->Discord Input. Hopefully that Makes sense. For some reason, even though it sounded fine in my headphones, my friend on the other end of the Discord call said it sounded terrible. changing the last VM output from the Hardware Output to one of the Virtual Outputs made it sound way better for them. Any clue as to why this might be? Also happy to hear if you have any other advice!
Hmm I know I've had cracking issues using the Virtual Cables before, you might want to check to make sure the sample rate is as close as possible in the System Settings (look at the SR for each input/output, I think they need to be as close to 44100 Hz as possible). Unless I'm misunderstanding the setup, it sounds like the sound is traveling through a lot of hoops which could be causing some issues. I would try the following: USB Mic --> HW Input 1 --> Enable Patch Inserts (2:30 in video) --> Reaper Effects --> Send USB Mic to either B1 or B2 in Voicemeeter (B1 = Voicemeeter VAIO, B2 = Voicemeeter Aux VAIO) --> Set up Discord Input to use whichever of these you send your mic to Does that make sense? If you look under each HW Input, there is the option to send these out to A1, A2, A3, B1, B2. The B1 and B2 settings are the outputs that I use for my Audio. I send B2 (Voicemeeter Aux VAIO) for my Mic, and B1 (Voicemeeter VAIO) for all other sounds. You can also try doing "Restart Audio Engine" from the Menu within Voicemeeter to see if that will resolve any issues when it sounds bad.
@@pantyburp Okay yeah that makes sense! I'll be giving that a try when I get home! I'm fairly certain that my USB Mic is 48000Hz, so should I make all of them that number? I also noticed, in this video you have your Reaper Output for the Mic going back into HW1 L/R in Voicemeeter. Doesn't that mean that you're just putting the Mixed Microphone over the top of your unmixed Microphone input from Hardware Input 1 (the one you have labeled "Microphone")? Or am I missing something?
@@dancorwin9232 My Microphone is actually set to 48000hz as well, for some reason I was never able to change that so sounds like that might not be the issue. I'm not exactly sure how the Patch Inserts work, but my understanding is that the sound goes from HW Input --> Reaper --> Voicemeeter Output --> Program. I can't speak for certain though, not quite a Voicemeeter or Reaper expert yet :) just an amateur who couldn't find a Reaper/Voicemeeter tutorial so I decided to make one.
@@pantyburp oh yeah I totally also am not either and I REALLY appreciate it! I am a total newbie to ALL of this and This has been immensely helpful, I'm starting live streaming and using voicemeeter in conjunction with Reaper has essentially allowed me to use my computer as a live voice modulator AND live music maker completely for free! As far as I can tell, from my tinkering around, the patch destination OUT from Reaper does go "over-top" any other inputs you have on that same channel input in Reaper. So if, for example, you have your raw mic in VM HW In 1, then going patch out to Reaper, if you send it out from Reaper to #1 L/R, you are in effect having both your unmixed and your mixed audio in the same channel in Voicemeeter. HOWEVER i watched this again and realized I missed your "input monitoring only" step The rest of this is just random info lol What Reaper seems to do is send the track's audio to every single channel that is listed in the "output" on your preferences IF that track is listed as having a "master" output. If you set your Output range in Reaper's Preferences to cover more than just one channel, you can then hit the track's "route" button, uncheck the master output, and then select a specific "hardware out" that you want it to be sent to. So I have it taking in Input 1, but then sending it out to Input 4 L/R. So if i'm looking at VM, i speak and see the sound in two channels, Input 1 and Input 4. But if I listen to them individually, Input 1 is the unmixed audio, and input 4 is the nice sounding audio. What the multiple outputs that lets me do is have separate channels for my voice and my music that I make on stream, while still routing it all through Reaper. Pretty cool!
@@dancorwin9232 that is awesome info! If you find any ways to improve the sound by routing to a different input, I would love to hear more about it. I'm glad everything is working out for this setup for you though, and I agree that Reaper + Voicemeeter is a great combination that can allow a lot of cool things to happen with live streaming. Thanks for all of your input and checking out the video!
If you set this up - can you then carry these settings or effects over from Voicemeeter Banana to live chat and videoconferencing platforms like Zoom, Teams etc? Or is it only for recordings?
Yep! The way I have mine set up is my microphone in Voicemeeter Banana is routed to B2, which is Aux VAIO Output. So when you're in one of these programs, you can just configure your Input device to be "Aux VAIO Output" and it should use your microphone from Voicemeeter Banana. I actually set up my Windows settings so that Aux VAIO Output is the default device, so all of my chat programs pick this up automatically.
Reaper would need to be open in order for the plugins to work. If you have Voicemeeter open, your mic will still route through there just fine, but it wouldn't use any of the Reaper plugins if you don't have that program open.
Is it really loud where you're at when you do the noise profile? The way it works is it reduces certain frequencies based on the noise around you. Is it fine when it's turned off?
I'm getting a bunch of static, and I can't seem to figure out why... I switched from Cantabile to this because I hoped it would fix the issue, but it did not... My settings match the ones on Voicemeeter and my mic. 🤔
I had this issue and it still occasionally happens but it's very rare. For me just unplugging the mic and plugging it back in usually works. I'll also do the "Restart Audio Engine" from the menu, and if none of that works, I'll restart the computer. Cantabile would happen consistently almost every time I started the program. If you find a solution, let me know!
@@pantyburp I switched back to Cantabile and found out the solution most of the time actually is just restarting the thing, it's easier on Cantabile due to the massive on/off button, I did it a few times and it worked. I am now using FL Studio for it due to more and better built-in plugins. The issue also happens here a few times, but it's rare and all I have to do is switch from IN#1 to IN#whatever and back once or twice, and it's good.
@@krohnberg If the static noise is very low you can use a noise gate like Renegate to completely silence it. If it is loud enough to be heard while speaking, NS-1 is pretty good at getting rid of such.
Does it sound like static? It'll occasionally happen to me but I usually go to the Voicemeeter menu and click "Restart Audio Engine" and that typically solves it. I'm not sure what the horrible noise and echo sound is though
@@dangumalo6857 oof yea that I'm not sure about. I would try the following to narrow down where the issue is: 1. Test mic without Voicemeeter or Reaper 2. Test mic using only Voicemeeter If it sounds fine with both of those, then I'm guessing something is wrong with reaper. Could try uninstalling and reinstalling to see if that fixes it
"Robotic echo sound" is a great description for what I was getting initially. Turned out to be that I was configuring the track for "Input: Stereo" (instead of mono). I later realized that neither of my mics are 2 channel (Windows sound settings > "Recording" tab > Microphone properties > "Advanced" tab) which might explain the issue. Just a guess based on an observation as I'm new to this topic.
Hmm there shouldn't be any distortions or cracking, it might be a sound card issue. I know that Chrome does not like to place nice with my sound card so I ended up switching to use Microsoft Edge to avoid this tinny echo sound that happens only with Chrome. Haven't been able to figure it out. Try another browser and see if you still hear the distortion?
Honestly I am not sure, I know that most (if not all) of the post processing is done through the VST Plugins. I can't say for sure if Voicemeeter Banana changes anything by default, but I'd guess the changes would hardly be noticeable.
No sound at all? Even through Voicemeeter? I would check to make sure you have your USB Microphone selected as an input within Voicemeeter (one of the hardware Inputs). If you're seeing sound come through on the volume bars, then the problem is probably in your windows sound settings. I linked a voicemeeter tutorial in my video that should help if you get stuck.
Just realized I missed this comment from awhile back. Hopefully you were able to figure it out. I have only had static sound come through my microphone a very small handful of times since I started using this setup over a year ago, and what fixed it for me was usually just going to the following in Voicemeeter: Menu --> Restart Audio Engine. There was one rare occassion where I had to unplug and plug my USB microphone back in to get the mic to sound good again. Hopefully you got yours working again!
@@theunholinesswithin70 interesting.... that makes me wonder if the sound is being routed correctly through Reaper and back out. Are the other effects making any difference? I know that I have to make sure Voicemeeter is set up as my Windows default device in order for programs to use that as my input. Reason I think it might not be routing correctly is because I have such a crap microphone in this video and it made a big difference (as you can see at 13:40)
@@pantyburp I'll send you a sample later. For now, I'll just say that I've been seeking a vocalist but nobody's interested, so the vocals I have recorded are terrible-But they're just recorded for the sake of it; And a call for help.
is there a guide or a video that you recommend that shows a tutorial on how to connect everything back to discord? The fx and adjustments made on reaper do not translate to my voicemeter and I don't hear any difference. However, I do hear voicemeter, I just don't hear reaper fx nor do I hear the reaper fx on voicemeter
If you're still hearing Voicemeeter but not the Reaper effects, I'm wondering if the patch inserts are set up correctly (2:40) or if the preferences are set up correctly within Reaper (3:45). I'd start there and let me know if they still aren't coming through. If both of those are fine, I'd make sure Voicemeeter is set up to use your microphone and not windows. There's a video I put as a card in the video to set up Voicemeeter with Windows: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2YERLdU4d9Y.html&ab_channel=Lockhinator If Voicemeeter is set up correctly like the video above, then you just need to go to Discord -> Settings -> Voice & Video -> and make sure "Input Device" and "Output Device" are using Voicemeeter. Hopefully that helps, feel free to let me know if that still doesn't work!
@@pantyburp Thanks for getting back to me! I followed the patch inserts and preferences accordingly in relation to the time stamps and there is still no audio coming through. I see that reaper is picking up my audio however, I cannot hear myself.
@@Skilled7105 Ah if Voicemeeter is picking up your audio then you're probably set up correctly. Are you trying to hear yourself in your headphones/speakers? Monitoring your own voice through Windows is always tough because there's a slight delay that can drive a person crazy, so I always have mine turned off. If you want to hear yourself though, you can turn on that output channel for your mic to route to your headphones.... so if you have your headphones/speakers set up through A1 (upper right hand corner of Voicemeeter), then select A1 on whatever input has your microphone. Does that make sense? That should at least have sound come through your speakers so you can hear it If there's still no sound coming through, then my guess is that either Voicemeeter isn't configured correctly with Windows (that video I posted) or your hardware output (A1, A2, A3) is not configured to use whatever speakers you want.
@@pantyburp I can hear myself through voicemeter however, I can't hear the change in fx from Reaper if that makes sense? I don't think that the fx from Reaper are transmitting through voicemeter
@@Skilled7105 hmm are the effects turned on in Reaper? The "FX" button should be Green showing that they are turned on. If it's Red, then that means the effects are turned off
it depends which input you're sending your microphone to. In my video, you can see that my microphones are both set to send the output to "B2", which is the VoiceMeeter AUX VAIO output, so I have that set as my Windows Input device. If you send them to "B1" then you would select the Voicemeeter VAIO output. Hope this helps
i need help when i put my discord input to ''voicemeeter output'' and my output to ''speakers /headphones realtek'' i can no audio at all but when i put my output to ''voicemeeter input'' its a loop i hear pings like an audio loop i tried to fix this for a week all tutorials dont help nothing help please
So you need to have "Voicemeeter Input" if you want to hear sound. When you hear a loop, do you mean your own voice? Or loops of people talking and games? You'll want to make sure you have the right Hardware Out set up (A1, A2, A3) and that the middle inputs on Voicemeeter (Voicemeeter VAIO and Voicemeeter AUX) are set to output sound to whatever Hardware Out has your speakers or headphones.
@@pantyburp anything my mic picks up discord will loop or voicemeeter idk its annoying idk the problem i watched so many tutorials i set up like them i got no clue
@@duckyking7940 Are you using headphones? Programs like Zoom or Google Hangouts do a pretty good job of isolating whichever mic is active so that there isn't an echo, but Discord picks up anything it can hear. If you go into "App Settings" in Discord and go down to "Voice & Video" there are some options to help cancel out the echoing, or you can make it Push to Talk so it will only pick up sound when you push a specific button
@@pantyburp ah its picking my youtube audio too and no i dont have hangouts or zoom wanna get in a call and u can tell me how to set it up or something?
@@duckyking7940 I mean if you want to use Discord the best bet is to use headphones too. If you're not using headphones, it'll be tough to isolate your sound. In discord, on the bottom left next to your name there's a settings icon. Click that and then you can mess around with the settings I listed above. But honestly using some sort of headset is probably your best solution
The problem is that Reaper isn't free - it only gives you 60 days before you have to buy it for $60. You should have made a video showing how to do this using one of the free VST hosts.
Absolutely, using just Voicemeeter can still give you good sound and is way easier to use, but using VST plug-ins just gives you a lot more flexibility to tweak your voice and it's not all that hard to set up, and it's free!
@@pantyburp Alright cool, Im almost done watching your video and I have a question.. Will this be able to be heard in discord? I know that voicemeeter itself will be able to make a difference in discord but does adding reaper work?
@@Evan-kj6ye yep if you follow the steps in here it will add the VST plug-ins and still output through Voicemeeter, so as long as you have Voicemeeter set up correctly then it will work with any program you have that configured to
Sure, did you enable the Patch Inserts in Voicemeeter, and then change the ASIO Settings in Reaper to use "Voicemeeter Insert Virtual ASIO"? Also you'll need to make sure you have your Windows configurations set up correctly in order to use Voicemeeter as your default Playback and Recording. If you haven't done that yet, you'll need to have that set up first in order to follow along with the steps in the video. I added a link in the video that gives a pretty good quick tutorial on how to do this. Also adding it here in case you missed it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2YERLdU4d9Y.html&ab_channel=Lockhinator
Hmm did you double-check the Voicemeeter settings and the Reaper settings? It can be easy to miss one of the steps that would prevent the sound from moving between applications. I know there are other ways to set this up, but this was the way that worked for me.
@@pantyburp yep, I have done the patch insert, and I'm on 48000Hz on both. My system sound settings are by default on voicemeeter and I have chosen Voicemeeter Insert Virtual Asio, my mic still doesn't get recorded by reaper. I tried with Voicemeeter Virtual Asio, and my mic gets captured but I can't use this to redirect the mic sound.
@@s.8494 It's hard to say what the issue could be without seeing your setup. One of the things that tripped me up was I didn't have the track turned "On" in Reaper when I was first using it. That's the red button next to the name of the track in the tool. Your best bet might be to reach out to the Voicemeeter discord (VB-AUDIO) and ask them for some support. I bet they will be able to help troubleshoot any issues.
Reaper and Voicemeeter surprisingly don't use a lot of computer resources so you could probably run each of those programs without much of a problem. Hard to say without actually trying it though, you'll definitely feel the constraints of your laptop if you try to do anything else on top of this though. I'd say give it a shot and see what happens since it's all free anyway.
It says that it requires a license but it will never actually forces you to buy it and you can use the software as long as you want. Completely up to you if you want to use it or try something else though!
Oh ok, i more question tho,i have all my audio going into Voicemeeter banana (mic, pc audio) but it wont let me select my mic (in Voicemeeter) in discord. Any tips?
You need to select whatever output your mic is being sent to. So if you have your mic going to B2, then select Voicemeeter Aux VAIO. If it's going to B1 then select Voicemeeter VAIO. I typically send my mic to B2 and everything else to B1. That make sense?
Happy to help! Do you have Voicemeeter set up and are the patch inserts set up for whichever input within Voicemeeter is using your microphone? If that all looks correct, check to make sure the Voicemeeter ASIO is set up to use those same inputs (around 3:50 in the video)
@@pantyburp so I figured out something lol I mean if I enable A1 in voicemeeter banana then I can hear myself in reaper but if I disable it then I can't lol. But thanks for help I'll look what you're saying and then disturb you again if it doesn't work lol 😂😂😂
@@tushar5981 awesome! Yea if you want to "monitor" your mic in Voicemeeter you have to enable that hardware output but I have never been able to fix the slight lag issue which drove me crazy lol so I just hope my voice sounds good when I talk and don't monitor it
Funny guy using a preset EQ when he talks about how certain microphones can sound bad. Yeah let's slap on a preset EQ to fix this microphones sound profile.
Just catching up on a few comments and not sure if this is sarcasm or not *insert Futurama Fry meme face here* - are you saying that using preset EQ to help a microphone sound better is a bad idea? I have found starting with a preset and tweaking that to fit your voice is what has worked best for me. I'm not a professional sound engineer so it was a good starting point for me. Always looking to learn so if there are tips/tricks to pass along, I'd love to hear!
Sure, you can send me a message with your discord name or post here. Also happy to answer any questions in these comments in case it will help other people!
