Great info, thanks for this, Stephen!

This was exactly what I needed. I have a line signal and I was afraid to go direct into ATEM due to lag rumours, and my cheap Canon camera only has Mic levels in. Thank you!

Excellent information, cleanly presented. Wonderful work! Also, you're the first video I've found that shows how to change from Mic to Line level in the ATEM Control software.

Loving this ATEM mini series! I will buy this hardware because of this playlist! Thank you!

I want to thank you for these video guides. Too many pros assume we get all the technical language, or just go to fast.

Thanks for mentioning the update that corrects the sync issues! I'm about to order the mini pro but I had been 'hearing' issues with the sound sync with direct mic inputs. Now I feel better with the plan to use a boom mic connected to the mini pro.

Nice Job, Easy to understand. Explained well and also great template for compression/limiting and EQ. Thanks!

Thanks for nicely explaining the settings. Looking forward to many more.

Best explanation so far! Apparently, I will also need the 1/8 to XRL cable

Excellent video, my man. These step-by-step methodical approaches really help me get things together.

This is the best video explaining audio connectivity for live streaming !!!!

Great job with this ATEM Mini series. A real live saver. Subbed.

hats off to you sir have been dealing with bad audio forever

Thank-you! You answered my questions straightaway.

Good stuff. I needed a straight forward video about setting the audio levels, compression and limiter on the mini so when my mate and his companion are live on facebook, and he treaks the gain for a little more omph, I don't have to constantly tweak the audio and can concentrate on the video and monitor the stream.

Dude.....I have been trying for weeks to run my Korg Kross 2 Keyboard workstation and usb microphone through my Atem Mini Pro and could never get my sound mixed properly.In just less than 10 minutes I have 3 variations of presets for varying scenarios.....Thanks man,you are a life saver!

And once again thanks, my new mini pro (to me, bought second hand for a good price) is now all setup :)

You are one of the best teachers on KZfaq!

Thank you sir. I have the traditional Atem Mini and was kinda stuck. After watching this video I'm definitely getting things done. I will share the link to your KZfaq channel so you get 1million subs ❤🎉

Thank you for this video ! We have some sound issues with a sport broadcast for one of our clients, it will really help us

Thank you for a great walkthrough and tutorial!

Awesome man! I'm hoping to pick up one of these soon to improve my online drum lessons. I can have my drum mix go to input 1 and my talkback on input 2 to switch between talking and playing. As well as free up all my usb ports! 😂

Thank You. This video was clear and concise.

Thank you. Just starting with the atem at my church and audio has been an issue. This should help a ton.

Love your work. Helped us a lot!

Thanks for the video. It's timely

Thank you. I've been looking for this informatuion for ages.

The biggest problem I deal with (with the Minis) is noise and hum. Usually it’s alleviated using a stereo DI, yet today I did an install where the noise was still present; the mixer at the install is noisy, so that may be contributing despite successful installs with the Minis in the past. Switching the input to line level, I had no idea it was embedded in the software. Thank you for sharing!

fantastic, complete video. Thanks a lot.

Awesome, thx for that, you helped me so much!

Thanks for another great video. Just got our mini, and are loving it. One thing you might point out. We are using ours temporarily close up by the minister, with the Canon vid camera through the mini, and a Snowball Blue USB microphone set up right by a floor PA speaker for all of our audio pick up. The mic goes straight into the laptop. Well, you got me looking closer and indeed we had about a quarter second of delay of the video behind audio. There is an audio delay control that’s been added lately to the mini, but this won’t help. My ‘brilliant’ son said with a bit of a sneer, “just look in OBS, that’s very sophisticated software, it must have delay.” So, duh, I searched online about it and indeed there is a synch setting in the advanced controls for each audio source, which goes by milliseconds. I dialed in 250ms delay and for the first time our video has synchronized audio. Looks great. All of this is looking great thanks to you, and once we get back to “in person” we’ll move back to choir loft with a lock down camera shot from side wall per your recommendations. Looking forward to multi camera. Thanks again. - Tom

Thanks Stephen! I will try it.

Really helpful. Thank you

Amazing tutorial. Thx!

Perhaps I missed it, but it would have been good to cover that the line input is unbalanced (Step down transformer is needed to avoid noise and headroom issues) and not +4dBu. So if you don’t use a pair of transformers, you need to keep the level down going in, then bring it up via the mixer. High pass is a good suggestion and I think you really should only use the limiter. Compression would be applied at the board.

Thanks for this!

Great content. Thanks!!!

Great video!!

Just what I was looking for. A video that would take someone like myself, with little technical knowledge, step by step through the process. Love how you split the videos in to parts too. Quick question, can I get a similar result by using, what I’m told is an easier platform, something like Streamyard. If so, is it something you’d consider making a video on 😉

Thank you for video.

Big thumbs up Stephen!

wooooow you answered all my questions......Thank you Sir

Nice video. I noticed the dynamics on our ATEM is VERY noisy! (high noise floor). Try engaging the compressor, expander or limiter with no audio passing into the ATEM. Now watch the audio meters - you will notice a lot of noise coming into them. I had to disable some of the dynamics as it noise was very audible during spoken word.

Hey Stephen! Thanks for this video. You've been a great resource in my streaming journey. I've learned a ton from you and appreciate it! So here is my current problem. I'm trying to monitor my audio from the headphone jack on my Feelworld F5 monitor and can barely hear anything. I have the monitor volume all the way up and have all of my audio setting as I think they should be and its so quiet still. Do I need to run a headphone amp between the monitor and the headphones? Or any other tips would be great. Thanks! Dustin

this was really great

Thank you so much Sir.

great video :):) thanks

Can you also tell us something about the gate function? Great overview so far!

Excellent video @Ballast Media. Can't help but ask if any future video audio plans that may cover other software or tools, especially X-Split, but others as well such as Wirecast, Vmix, etc.?

thank you sir you r the best ...ahmed from tunisia

Very useful!

thanks for the video

Good video. I wanna buy that model for home streams. At work I have ATEM Television Studio HD, but it have redundant functionality for me and my musical streams.

Thank you, my congregation is going to benefit a lot from this, to be able to spread the word, let the glory be to God.

Great Job

Very helpful

Thank you. I love us. :)

THANK YOU.

Hi Bro Stephen , your video are great ! As many countries having lockdown for the pandemic of covid , our church has to progress to live stream. However , we facing the audio issue , where the buzzing sound is very loud from the beginning, once we reduce the volume, it will be slightly lower , but still existing . We are using blackmagic mini pro & direct plug in from our mixer.

THANKS

thank you sir

Great video! The most frustrating for livestreaming is the audio. We have a Y cable coming off the mixer, one side is connected to the mini, the other side is to plug in headphones to hear the mix prior to going through the mini. The mix sounds fine in the headphones but what gets livestreamed to FB is really quiet (even though the meters in the mini are hitting the yellow area) plus its really flat and "tinny* sounding. I'm realizing now the mini has an EQ lol. Is there anyway to turn off that eq?

excellent

thanks

Hi I really like your easy to understand tutorials. I used these settings yesterday at our church stream and everything went pretty well, except I now have a couple of questions I hope you will answer. First when I changed the mic 1 to line it took almost all my gain away. I had to go back and use a third setting our Atem Extreme has that is called mic or output in?? I also noticed that there is a screen that shows makeup gain. Is this what I should have used to make up the lost gain by using line setting? Second question I am wanting to use the lower thirds from Propresenter 7 but our church has an older computer that is using VGA to 3 projectors. Atem requires me to connect using HDMI which I don't have. Is there another way to connect this computer to the Atem? Thanks for all your work it is really helping us church volunteers!

A cheap Behringer mixer with unbalanced output works and it is better to use the HDMI output cause it has the better quality so you need a capturecard too. And it works with the old Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder for te coding to the internet. And if you are a CamTwist user it works with that too so this is a very cool product.

Thanks for the Video! Is the audio from HDMI output just a bypass or after effect (with EQ, compressor that has applied)? Thank you

Good stuff

Great video! Do you recommend using compressor in the mixer as well? I send a aux bus to streaming.

I’m big on low latency so my video/audio syncs up. Any other latency issues as of today? and do you have some recording done from it so I can see examples live? Thanks a lot for the info 💪🏽🙏🏽

Thank you for the video. Is it possible to get a Dante Audio input in Atem Mini Pro?

Would you still recommend the canon xf15 and the xf200 for multi cam shoot? You recommended these cameras in 2016 and I was wondering would that be the same recommendations given this is 2020. Thanks in advance

Great infos ! Do you how to avoid atem mini to make an audio input appear only on the left channel ? I tried to do that by splitting the channels into mono but it mutes the audio completely even though it appears on the decibel meter.

Great . How do You remove the controller stuff on the screen when using iPhone as camera? I only want to show the picture

When will you do part four in this series?

Important to note, if you're running 1/4" out to the ATEM. (This doesn't apply if you use XLR outputs.) The suggested dual 1/4" to 1/8" cable for sending audio from board to ATEM assumes your board is outputting *unbalanced* audio, and so it's appropriate to hook up to it a cable that has only two strips of metal visible on the plug, the Tip and the Sleeve (TS). TS cables send two different signals along two different wires: a ground signal on one, and the audio signal on the other. But often sound board outputs are *balanced* audio (which is much more resistant to interference than unbalanced audio, hence works over longer distances). And balanced audio requires a balanced cable containing *three* wires, with plugs consisting of three strips of metal: the Tip, a Ring, and Sleeve (TRS). A mono balanced signal breaks down into three signals in a balanced cable: a ground signal, then two other signals that encode the audio signal but in a manner overall resistant to interference. (XLR outputs will similarly transmit a mono balanced signal through their plug's three pins.) If you try using the recommended unbalanced dual 1/4" to 1/8" cable when your board outputs balanced audio, you're gonna have a bad time. If the balanced audio is "impedance balanced" (Tip is signal, Ring and Sleeve are ground), I believe it'll still work (but you're vulnerable to interference). But if it's "symmetrically" or perhaps "electronically" balanced (Tip is half signal, Ring is *inverted* half signal, Sleeve is ground -- so the actual signal is Tip minus Ring), audio will either be very degraded or just won't work, I'm not entirely sure which. If your board's outputs are balanced, you need to include a balanced-unbalanced conversion in the pipeline. Running two balanced 1/4" TRS to XLR cables from board to an ART CLEANBoxPro Dual-Channel Level Converter, then running a (ideally short) TRS-TRS microphone cable from that into the ATEM, should do the trick (I believe with the input set to Mic in ATEM settings). This will give you a stereo audio input, left/right corresponding to the two board outputs. If you only have one board output, you can just run it to the ART box, then in ATEM settings split the mic input and pan the active half to center and turn the unused half to zero.

Hi Steven, Thanks for the video. Are there any settings in the Audio control panel of ATEM MINI that you suggest to control the internal noise occurring due to the AC & Fan during the Live sessions?

Thanks for your great videos! Question: Will this device, and following the instructions you mentioned in this video help with following LKFS (or LUFS) monitoring requirements? I'm mixing through an A&H board into a complete audio 6 and into OBS and out to CASTR (via your CASTR tutorial, thanks). The worship music (keys, ac. guit. 3 vocals) sounded great on youtube but on FB it sounds fine for about 7 seconds then you can hear their compression kick in and the instruments sound like toys. My research is saying that for facebook I should be at around -16 LKFS. Will this device and instructions help with this problem? Or do you have another video that addresses this?

Hi, thanks for the very helpful video. I currently have 4 mics going into a firewire interface, and within Ableton Live, I apply EQ and compression and other bits such as limiting and deessers. Would I be able to plug the headphone output of my interface straight into the mic input of the Atem? I'm assuming there will be an audio delay as it's running through my DAW first, is there any delay compensation you're aware of within the Atem software? Many Thanks

Hallo, I have a microsoft surface pro 3 notebook (Windows) connected with hdmi to the MINI. Unfortunately there ist no SOUND transported. Do you have an idea, how I can hear the SOUND. Thanks a lot.

We record via 2x 8 channel interfaces run Aggregate on a Mac Pro into Presonus Studio One 4 Pro. Is there a way to use the ATEM Mini for a livestream sound? I'm really at a loss on how to record and get a mix for a livestream from the DAW... Any ideas?

thanks for the helpful video! i will be streaming live music via 4 different cameras in four different areas of the studio. all the music will be fed into a single mixer. i was wondering: 1) since the cameras will only be for visual purposes, do i need to go the iso route? 2) any advantage, from a STRICTLY audio standpoint, to go with extreme rather than pro? thanks again!

Great video! So if I'm just using audio from a Camera 1 mic I just turn Audio on in Cam 1 in Audio Control on the ATEM?

Could you make a video explaining how to add headphones in order to listen to the output?

Sir while using atem mini im getting audio first and video later.. there is a delay in video. So i adjusted the audio latency to 8frames even though video audio arent syncing.. please help. We are using panasonic ux90 and sony nx200

Thanks for these videos. Lots of information for this old person to digest. I do have a question. We ordered the Atem Mini to live stream to FB. We are giving up the cellphone finally. We use Behringer XR18 mixer for the worship service. What is the best way to get the audio into the Mini and how. You mention stereo, we will be mono since we have only one AUX left. Is it at all possible to use the headphone jack output to the mic input on the Mini or the mic input of the camera? Side note... the worship team at your church is amazing! And yes, you are a master at getting the sound to show how amazing they are. Blessings from Poland.

Can you help me with this question. I use Atem mini pro extreme ISO and I have connected Camera1 (BMPCC6K) to HDMI1 input on Atem, Macbook pro to HDMI2 input and USBc also to macbook. My Microphone is connected to Camera1. I attend Zoom calls and I record all inputs however the sound of the guest in Zoom call is not getting recorded to ATEM. I connect headphone to macbook to hear the guest, but I can't get their audio in audio and video files for HDMI1 or HDMI2. Can you help me understand how can I get the audio of the guest in zoom or another conference app on to ATEM recording.

I'm a bit confused. Couldn't you just delay the audio in Advanced Audio Properties in OBS?

Hi I have a problem .. I use atem mini & OBS for my streaming setup. When I record my video streaming from OBS it sounds good with no problem, but when it started to “stream video” then I watch it from Instagram Live it has no sound ....

Great tutorial... We use a small Mackie creator mixer that has 4 separate headphones output jacks... Wondering about patching from my headphone output to the mic input of the atem switcher... This way it leaves my full size mixer line level outputs jacks available for the powered monitors and other works... What do you think?

How to livestream in 4k? Any other equipment?

What about using the 1/4” line outputs on a Focusrite 8i8 into the Mini?

Great video ! But I am not an audio maestro :) So excuse me if I am asking meaningless questions. I have two wireless lavalier mics (1 Sennheisser ew100G3 and 1 Sony UTX-B03) and their original cables (1 xlr and 1 3.5mm outputs), so my question is do I have to choose "line" instead of "microphone" at the ATEM Mini setup software ? Thanks a lot

Is OBS necessary or can we just use the ATEM software?

Awesome video, guys! Question: i want to live stream my recording sessions. I'm using my Apollo Twin to record my audio and Logic as my DAW. Using my ATEM Mini Pro, how can I share the audio from Logic, while i'm recording, in the broadcast?

Thanks so much for this. Quick question. When one does the "save startup state," does that save the settings on the actual device itself (meaning I don't have to connect it to the software and "restore" settings? I've always saved the settings on the desktop via "save as" and have always restored such settings. The "save startup state" simply saves the specs on the hardware itself so I don't need the software to update those settings? Is that correct?

Hi Ballast, thanks for another great video! I learned a great deal from your sharing. I have two questions: 1. I've recently tried a live stream and it didn't turn out well. Found that it was caused by the cable from mix out (mono XLR) to mic in on Atem Mini (3.5 TRS Stereo). The live stream audio was ok when hearing using earpiece or headphone over mobile phone, but completely inaudible thr' the phone speaker out (some brands work ok though). Tried with another cable (like the one in your video) with 2x 1/4" jacks to 3.5mm TRS Stereo it works ok. How would I know if the cable is connected properly? Or can it be done like that in the first place? Whether I switch to Line or Mic in Atem Control Software was the same result. 2. My setup has a hissing background noise all the time (also shown thr' the audio meter). How to remove the noise? via hardware or software? Thank you very much!

Hi! I think your videos are super good! I'm trying my Sony RX100 MKV and my GoPro for some live Dj stream so also I'm going from a mixer to input 1 in Atem Mini. My problem is that I have different delays with the different cameras. And I mean how they sync with audio. Is this something that you think I can do something about somehow? Thanks once again for the super good informative videos!

I have our Mini audio setup as you prescribed here. Spoken voice sounds great but music sounds like the notes are getting cut off and is choppy. Any suggestions?

We were going to get an audio interface (Scarlett 2i2) to get a clean output into OBS from our mixer but would this be needed if were were to go with the ATEM (mixer to stem to computer & mix with ATEM)?