Hi, great video. I am trying to figure out one aspect, I have few USB microphones connected to laptop and I have one physical Audio Mixer in the hall. The voice output cable from laptop connected to physical mixer. I have voicemeeter Banana, when I choose the A1 output selecting "WDM headphone" so the sound go to mixer, there is no sound coming. When I choose MME headphone then the sound coming but with some sound feedback (echo type). Any idea how to fix this?
For those watching now, it looks like the voicemeter outputs are now individually labeled a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, b1, b2, b3 in system sound settings. Per the example shown in this video, the dedicated mic channel would now be B1, and the Mixed Mic/Audio for obs would be b2.
You are right, in new releases you can enable the VAIO Extension through Menu --> VAIO Extension License. This way you don't need to install additional cables and can use the shipped virtual interfaces directly as input and output on the physical channels in voicemeeter.
This is the best video on using voicemeter that is out there. I wanted to get my mic,guitar,RU-vid sound and DAW sound all into voicemeter then into OBS. It's been a struggle but using the information provided by this video I was able to accomplish this today. Thank you so much!
Saying thank you is not nearly enough; your video is hands down the best I've seen on RU-vid about potatoes. Your channel deserves to have at least 1 million subscribers, and I hope my subscription helps on that journey!
I have been streaming for a while now and use different tech to host the streams. The newest locations were only allowing 1 input for microphone when I needed to bring in my PC audio as well. And now I need to bring in an external computer (Xbox) as well. The routing tutorials never really explained HOW IT WORKS. So, I tried copying several people's pathways, but things kept failing. No one had the same setup as me. Rodecaster pro, PC, Xbox. This tutorial broke it down like I didn't already know everything and that is exactly what I needed. Last night I punished my teammate with reverb and gamesounds so the stream could hear him. And somehow, the stream lost my browser audio. It was beyond frustrating. Anyway. I have a show today and everything should be up a running thanks to this video. Much appreciated for the instruction and detal.
I though I had voicemeeter all figured out until the livestream I had last night. I had a core misunderstanding of how the routing of the virtual interfaces in VMP worked and most of other how to's I have found only scratched the surface on how it worked. Thank you for putting together such a detailed tutorial on how to set up and route audio through VMP. Liked and subscribed!
I am trying to feed as many separate audio channels into OBS to capture them as individual audio tracks. Does everything have to go through the virtual outputs or can I map those sources (assigned to various virtual cables) directly to separate sources in OBS? Thanks!
I just wanted to say thank you so much for this! I love how you explained why you did each action instead of just saying "do this then do this" like most other tutorials out there. I've been using banana, and decided to switch over to potato and I feel way more comfortable with my audio setup now then what I've been using for the past year. You are a literal life saver!!!!
Best video about Voicemeeter Potato I've seen so far. If you have a dedicated streaming PC you can send the audio to it over the network with the VBAN feature. Both PC's need to have Voicemeeter installed of course.
Yes of course VBAN is a great feature. I don't have a dual pc setup or other need for it, but for sure that's the one topic I'm missing in my tutorial.
As of May 31, 2024, under Windows 10/11 (64-bit), VoiceMeeter now installs a new single virtual audio driver offering 8x virtual audio I/O. The three regular virtual outputs are now displayed with the BUS Name, so you will need to reselect the recording device in all your applications that previously used it. From OLD to NEW: new vaio extension - the outputs are: VoiceMeeter Out A1 through A5. For the old VAIO drivers, the new mappings are as follows: VoiceMeeter Output > VoiceMeeter Out B1, VoiceMeeter Aux Output > VoiceMeeter Out B2, and VoiceMeeter VAIO3 Output = VoiceMeeter Out B3. Go to your PC's Control Panel, click on Hardware and Sound, then click on Sound, and review or change your selections. :)
This is by far the detailed and easy to understand voicemeeter video ive seen. Yes it is a bit long, but i been using VM potato for almost a year and still confuses me. after this vod i totally understand. u earned a sub
OMGosh! I've used Potato for years and I do not have access to most of the audio processing effects that you covered! I must have to download the latest version. This is amazing!
I really think that this is super uuuuuuber important and should be endorsed by VA! I have replayed the video several times to study and grasp the concepts. Your speaking pace, @NavyTheNerd, is excellent and allows listeners like me to comprehend the information. Massive thank you dude!
Eu usei meu voicemeeter errado a vida toda, cara você foi sensacional nas explicações, muito detalhista e bem especifico, abriu minha mente para este programa serei eternamente grato parabéns pelo conteúdo.
Hat off to you Sir. Your video explains in the simple way possible this complicated routing program. You have clarified so many questions I DIDN'T know I even HAD about this program. Thank you for your hard work putting this video together. Like M4v3r1ckRJ said below, your channel deserves a million subscribers. Again Thank you.
Thank you so much for your great and detail explanation. Looking forward for another cool contents. Please explain how to fix troubleshooting such as audio stuttering and delay
This is one of the best VM videos I've seen. I was using Potato so wrong for the last few years. Thank you! Now, quick question : I see HARDWARE input channels you have : COMP - GATE - DENOISER .. and also 2 PRG buttons and have access to the feature of the compressor for example by right clicking on it. I don't have any of those in Potato. Is it because you're using ASIO and i'm using WDM ? Thanks again!
*UPDATE* : Even though I had the latest version for VMP .. it seems the GUI wasn't showing the options / features I stated above. Re-installed VMP .. rebooted .. and voila! Hope this helps someone else!
Great guide I just don't understand one thing, how does any of what we set in VM translate to OBS? Do I have to add certain sources or leave it default? If I want to separate my discord audio from OBS when recording (I don't stream) and I suppose if I want to separate my discord mic from OBS then I'd have to set up an hotkey to mute.
What an excellent tutorial. Thank you. I've been running Voicemeeter for sometime and not really understanding some of the advanced features and setup. This has been a great help. Do you have issues with distorted audio sometimes though? Have you managed to fix that problem?
The best ever clearly well explained in greater depth step by step video guide on voice meeter potato without any rush. I just had to subscribe and like, thanks for making this tutorial thumbs up to your video channel. I went ahead and purchased VB-Audio A+B and want to know if possible to use VB-Audio A on the fourth hardware Input channel specifically for my Action! Mirrillis screen recording software and route discord audio through it as well so that when I'm screen recording my gameplay with friends I can also record our voices into the video?
One of the greatest tutorial videos I've seen in a long time! Super easy to follow and understand. One thing that left me confused is the denoiser knob. I don't seem to have that option in my instance of VM Potato. Any reason that might be?
there is a problem with the auto ducking macro because if you speak then stop and then quickly speak before the 1000 ms are up it will lower again. Should i just put the 1000 ms down to 1 ms? Also is there a way to set it to auto duck bus b1 in strip 6?
Hey, best guide I've seen. Congratulations, you explain it great and everything was understood. I wanted to ask you about EQ, compression and gate. You comment that there are good videos out there, but I haven't found anything interesting that works with Voicemeeter Potato and these options (mostly focused on the microphone). Do you have any video that you could recommend on this topic? Thanks for your time, very nice work!
basically every tutorial should work. there is nothing special about using the voicemeeter compressor and eq. you just need to learn the basics of what the ratio, attack time and release time do and for the eq you need to understand what a eq does. In the end you need to identify what you want to change in your audio recordings. e.g. if you think your lacking presence then you need to boost higher frequencies a little, but in the end its testing, understanding and a lot of experience of how different frequencies influence sound.
You can use field "Title Value" from the Advanced Toggle for that. Just set that to the parameter you wanna query from voicemeeter and it will be used as the button title, e.g. "strip[0].gain" will display the current gain as the title.
Thank you for the guide! I have a question, though. Is there a way for my keyboard's or headset's volume wheel/knob to control the volume without having to do it through VM?
Clicks on Audio setup guide. Can't hear the guy in the video. So bassy it's hard to understand in some parts. Wonder if this is the guy to be listening to. Actually the guide itself is great. I needed a refresher after being away from content creation for almost a year and the 48khz tip was an instant "ohhhh of course!" moment.
I have setup everything right and works perffect but whenn i share screen to my friends if i do not disable mi cable a and cable b (cable a send discord to my obs cable b send music to stream) my friends listen double time their voice or music AND that only when i share screen
@@va02gaming absolutely. It's not that complicated, once you understand how a gate and compressor works, but the difference it can make to manually dial in the right threshold, attack, hold and release time is huge.
@@NavyTheNerd thank you, I know you cover it in this video but do you have or could you do a extensive video on it sometime when and if you get spare time It would honestly be awesome 🙏 I am kind of new to audio/microphone stuff so your video is really helpful again thank you
@@va02gaming I'm by no means an expert in audio processing, but I will see if I can do a follow up video, to cover audio processing especially within Voicemeeter.
@@NavyTheNerd I would double check when I get home, pretty confident I assigned all them a custom name though. Will provide imgur links. Thank you for the response.
That is hard to solve from just your descirption. But i suggest joining the VB-Audio Discord, there are many people that can help you solve your problems and you are able to share screenshots of your setup.
Thank you very much for your help, your video has been very helpful to me but I think I still have a question: why do certain applications like Discord appear repeatedly in the system, music and communications (virtual inputs) section? I can't catch it. I would also like to understand how to connect this configuration to Adobe Audition to use it in multitrack mode and have my microphone and the Discord audio (the audio of my mates) separately (different tracks) Thanks in advance
since most daws don't allow you to connect more than one audio device i recommend you to use a virtual asio device with multiple channels where you can route different applications to different audio channels of the same asio device. for this purpose i recommend you to check out my vb audio matrix video
@@NavyTheNerd almost done I think, thanks, I just need to finish a complete EQ in voicemeeter side, I combined with some VST in the OBS side too, but still have some background noise and my voice it's too shiny, but no videos of EQ in the voicemeeter side useful yet
@@NavyTheNerd I am missing a good and detailed EQ settings video on the voicemeeter side, mic of course, but also the rest Outputs like B1,B2, B3 etc anyway, thanks a lot for you works, I have same setup as you, the best in my opinion, thanks so much!
keep in mind, you always need to record the cleanest audio you can possibly get, because it's very hard to fix bad audio in post. especially if it needs to be done in real-time due to live streaming. so if you have a very noisy environment, you won't get rid of that noise without sacrificing audio quality. with a compressor you even will increase your noise floor. but if you need heavy noise removal you can try something like nvidia broadcast noise removal (if you have a nvidia gpu).
@@NavyTheNerd I think I have in my MSI gaming laptop, but not using nothing more than the encoder in the OBS. About compressor noise reduction in the OBS part, I have not success yet and disconnect it, just left the VST filter EQ in the OBS side. Notice better results applying in the Voicemeeter side, more good quality, I copy your settings, but adjust a few as have a condensed mic HyperX Quadcast S, a bad mic by the way 😔, but in your video the EQ part only show the A channel, not sure if need to EQ the B too, but think in the correct path using the Voicemeeter in this case using this microphone
