Separating audio in OBS isn't hard. But you know what is hard? Making those god damn graphics. Good lord that took me too long. Never make me do that again. Tell all your friends about me so I feel like it was worth my time even though we all know it wasn't.

Been using this setup for a few months and I just want to say, thank you so much for this! Been able to watch streams and listen to music while recording. Makes it all so much better haha, youre a legend!

Dude, 1 week ago i was actually looking for a tutorial about this and couldn't figure it out. Now it worked! THANK YOU!

I seriously appreciate the minute detail and breaking down of concepts at the "kindergarten" level because this helps me have a better understanding of how the system works overall. Short and quick format is nice in a pinch, but if you're trying to tinker and learn, these long form tutorials are the best. You earned a sub my man!

I started using Voicemeter about a year ago now. This was by far the most useful tutorial of VM that I've used. I still come back to it a year later just to refresh myself whenever some setting messes up or I change my audio hardware around. Thanks for such a simple and somewhat entertaining tutorial video.

This can be so frustrating to set up to the point of tears, and legit your calm voice makes it easier to not have a fuckin' meltdown setting this shit up. Thanks for the help and just being cool

Some of the presented concepts were kinda mind-bending since I'm no Lucas Studio audio tech. But after a couple rewind-listens, I now get it! Thanks Nutty!

I know this is kind of an old video but dude I have to tell you how much I appreciate this video. Just the whole tone of ‘hey I know this looks confusing - like wtf is all this, right?- but I’m gonna talk you through it’ was REALLY what I needed! So yeah, tysm for taking the time to make this for dummies like me 😅

You never fail to be nonchalantly real with your viewers and I appreciate it every single time. No I am not a scientist and that audio board would’ve made me lose my mind if I hadn’t come across your tutorial. Thank you!

"You just got pranked sonnn" Voicemeeter is incredibly intuitive once you understand it. I use banana on my gaming pc and potato on my streaming pc. Works like a charm.

This was one of the easiest tutorials I've found, and your humour is the cherry on top. Thank you!

NUTTY!!! THANK YOU!!! This was EXACTLY what I needed. I had no idea how any of this kind of stuff worked. All I wanted was to make it so only I could hear my browser audio at times. I asked other people for help and they had me running around in circles, doing all kinds of things that didn't work, with all kinds of extra steps and bad instructions. But you explained it perfectly and simply and this works just like I needed it to. I appreciate it

Best tutorial ever brother, I appreciate the hard work done in this video hella under rated.

I cant believe this actually works so smoothly, thank you! I was scratching my head wondering how the heck do i stream on Twitch, but not have my discord chat audio be broadcasting on Twitch via OBS. With this, i can control it all so easily :)

The best explination! I watched a dozen other videos and still didn't have a clue what was going on. The other videos just did the whole, click here and here and here business and I didn't learn a thing. Now I understand the fundamentals I can setup this on my own in the future without having to rewatch a speedrun tutorial! :)

oh my gods dude ive been trying to split my audio for four hours now and im way over my bed time but your video is the one that finally made the difference and helped me succeeding in splitting it! thank you so much!!!

I've watched several videos on how to setup Voice meeter, it's the first one that is actually explaining what is happening besides "It's dark magic". Thanks a lot

This helped me so much! You cut the fluff out like most tutorials have and got straight to the point. Didn't go into too much details but enough so I knew what the heck I was playing around with. Thank you

I feel like they should release an "overly simplified" version of this software, where it lists your input devices on one side, output on the other side, and has a "visual graph" interface, like what Unity has for its shaders. Just drag a line from your input to your output, and the line between those 2 devices can have a right-click property box to control the effects. It's cleaner, and less daunting this way.

This was WAY more helpful than the other three Voicemeeter tutorials I watched before this one. I especially appreciate that you pointed out that cables A, B, C, and D are all ADDITIONAL cables and that there is one that's totally free (one video made me think that the ABCD cables were all that existed).

This is definitely helpful! I've started streaming recently and, sometimes, I listen to music or audiobooks while gaming, but if I wanted to make a highlights reel of my Twitch recordings on KZfaq, I wouldn't want to get copyright-struck because of my choice of listening entertainment. I downloaded Voicemeeter today and I find it quite awesome-- my viewers can listen to the in-game music while I listen to ... 50 Shades, I guess. Thanks for the video!

this tutorial is just insanely good, I don't think I've ever seen such a good tutorial for anything before, thank you so much man

I have been scratching my head at separating my desktop audios sources for a while now. A freind recommended Voicemeeter but when I was tyring to figure it out with some written tutorial info and a video or two things weren't working for me at all. You have no only helped explain this in a helpful way, you even helped to point out other sources that I may or may not want to have sectioned out from my streaming and heard audio outputs. Thank you. I did have to go with a different output codec because something was cause the codec you picked to create a choppy quality in my sound, but switch to a different audio codec for the same output source did the trick for me. Thank you for taking the time to explain this in a helpful and thoughtful way. Even if it wasn't a "funny" video, it was extremely helpful.

this video is a life saver, have watched it at least 7 dif occasions to fix audio on my pc and works like a charm every time i have issues.

Hi nutty! Great video. Would I be able to do this backwards? Like bring external audio into OBS and use this “box” to send that audio into Discord? Please let me know. Trying to do a radio show on discord with DJ’d music and it keeps dropping out and has no dynamics. I can DJ stream to Twitch without these issues, however, the person in charge doesn’t want to use Twitch and keep everything in Discord. Thanks in advance!

Just a heads up, if anyone's headset sound sounds garbly when you choose WDM, just switch to MME instead or try a different driver. Its an easily fixable issue, that might not necessarily be super obvious.

Dude, I know this is an old video, but helped so much. I have done this many times, but it is always sooooo long between when I actually have to go in and do it that I have to relearn everything. It was really helpful to have the diagram, which I know you hated, but it helped. Thanks.

Yo. I've looked at so many other guides but none of them were able to clearly explain this, until I came across your video. Thanks so much for the tutorial. Love the way you explain things and love your humor as well. Keep it up man.

Bruh when the “Just say yes, Gavin,” part happened, I got a little spooked, ngl. Lol.

ah yes, "for windows only", those terrifying words that i never have to fear ever again thanks to building a computer

Not only did i find this video super helpful but I personally enjoyed the way he explained all the information. Giving all the necessary info, very clearly might I add, in a much more casual and relaxed manner that I really don't see very often among many tutorial videos. I'm definitely checking out dudes' streams after I get this stuff working.

Thank you! I've been using VM for a couple years now, and I had kinda managed to figure out a few things, but after watching your video and fiddling around with a couple things I finally ACTUALLY understand how it works, and was able to set everything up how I like!

the previous tutorial took ten minutes to say "just make it separate" this helped a lot thanks

As a visual person, I am thankful. My friend kept explaining this to me over and over and I just could not understand. And then he called me a boomer and I got sad. This is why I am here.

You are a god ! i'm a small streamer, and when I'm gaming even alone, I like having a KZfaq Video playing background, and when i'm streaming and there is silence moment and all it's pretty diffucult for me, so having a youtube video on the side gonna help me a lot, thank you so much for this turorial !

This was super helpful to me, been trying to properly figure out voicemeeter and half the tutorials I found were just "here's how you install voicemeeter, and you just change your outputs and inputs: without actually showing how to do it.

Having watched several voicemeter setup videos, I must say this is the ONLY one that made any sense. I installed voicemeter 6months ago and uninstalled because I didn't know shit... Today i setup in less than 15m, even fudging around with virtual cables and shit. Cheers Nutty

6:25 You can right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar n press sound. Much easier way to get to sound settings

Love your content as a small streamer who's tryna come back after a super long one year break, I can tell you honestly I've been improving the quality of my stream and feel confident to stream once I start it up again! Thank you nutty ! Also thanks for the laughs too

literally any time my computer does stupid computer things and messes with my audio on an update i always come back to this video and this video only - thank you so much!!

5:28 You can just skip that too. Use the Windows' settings for that by setting the default com' peripheral and default peripheral. You won't even have to use the Voicemeter GUI. Plus you won't have to change the settings in other app if you switch from Discord to Skype or some other com' software sice those settings are native to Windows and apply to every com' soft and normal soft

Thank you for this. I pretty much just started streaming (mostly prepping to do Extra Life this year) and was hoping there was a way to listen to other stuff while I work on games during that lengthy stream without it coming through the stream itself.

thank you so much for this video out of everyone i watched. You were the clearest person ever and its been weeks of me trying to fix my audio and i can finally stream.

This was honestly the easiest-to-follow tutorial I've ever seen, and the most useful thing for me who would have had NO idea how to do this if it weren't for you. Thank you!

Really awesome videos buddy!

9 seconds into the video and I already know it’s gonna be more helpful than any other VM tutorial I’ve seen. The man knows my struggle!

Perfect! I remember watching this a few years ago when I started streaming WoW classic raiding and I needed a refresher.

Thank you so much for breaking it down to beginner level! I love the diagrams. It makes it easier to understand (even if I already had an idea of how it works). This is exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed :D

im doing this to avoid dmca strikes

This tutorial is by far the best tutorial and I wish I had this when I was first learning how to use this

Thank you so much for this video. I watched this video years ago when I first got VMB. I had uninstalled it but now I have a use for it again. There are SO many tutorials out there, BUT... When I decided to get VMB again, I was like "I need that video that I watched a few years ago to help me go step by step to set it up again" low and behold, you were 2 videos down. So, once again, I'd like to say THANK YOU for making a tutorial that is SO easy to follow along with!

By far the best basic explanation of how to get started with this software. Thank you

I NEEDED THAT THANK YOU

Omfg I literally googled this 2 minutes ago! Finally!

Thanks man best tutorial out there straight to the point and much easier to understand. I was actually planning to use the voice meeter to split my mic audio and Spotify so my vods would have no music included in it and this really helped thanks so much!

Watched some Tutorials from other KZfaq, they didn't work or I got confused. watched this one and worked first time and was easy to follow, thank you sir!

I’ve been watching your videos for weeks now and of all the youtubers out there, you’re the most helpful and awesome. Great videos and your channel should’ve millions of subs.

lmao "if you're using a mac you just got pranked son"

Oh man, I tried to do this with so many other tutorials and none of them worked at all, but yours did, I love your content man

Thanks for the video! I was having a lot of trouble using my brain around this stuff, but now I understand what's what.

watching this as an audio engineer is kinda funny lol. You have the best explanation from a consumer standpoint though, it's hard to explain audio vsts and how they work to non-audiophiles (its like rocket science at first glance). Keep up the great work man, you're always inspiring me! P.S. the music industry DOES in-fact still use tape machines, albeit digital emulations rather than hardware in 2021, but they've still been used on some of the biggest records of the last decade! ;)

Hey guys, I'm no Tech wizard but I did spend hours trying to get this right. My goal was to make more reactions with my friends' discord voices, my voice, and my video audio all on different frequencies.. I got stuck on the cable step around 11:00 in the vid, but the "Cable OUTPUT" option wasn't showing up.. To fix this try to find the "VBCABLE_Driver_Pack43" in ur download folder and run the "VBCable_Setup" as Administrator. After a computer reset the option to use the Cable Output should appear (Or at least it did for me)

Man I just want you to know that I've watched tons of these videos and I just didn't get it but you explained it in the best way I could understand. You earned a new sub.

Thank you so much! I just got my capture device for my switch and I now managed to split all of these sounds :D. Finally not one volume button for my whole pc

What do I do once I download the VB-Cable because the Cable output doesn’t show up when I click on the hardware input

Im a pro sound engineer and even I have never seen such complicated sound board or sound plug-in panel in my life. This is completely insane lmao

Been having so much trouble with audio. This helped so much even a year later. Appreciate it man.

Saved my sanity your bit at the beginning about trying other tutorials and having to give up on them was so accurate. Thanks!!

8:36 the emotions

When I try to play music, Spotify says “Spotify can’t play this right now, if you have the file on your computer you can import it.” How do I fix this?!

The best tutorial I've found on this BY FAR! So easy to follow and the visuals really helped a noob like me understand how it all works! Thank you!

huge help and the vibe of the video was great. figured out how to split my music from my twitch vod, thanks a ton!

For those still coming back to this video VoiceMeter potato is free now so you get an extra audio to separate! Think it might be a bit more stable as well but not sure!

Literally comes out a day after I uninstalled it due to all the headaches it gave me.

I watch this tutorial at least twice a month. Thank you for putting out such an easy to follow tutorial c:

Dude! I’ve seen so many VM videos yours is THE best. You broke it down and very easy to understand! THANK YOU!

hi! love the tutorial! I downloaded the VB cable but it does not come up when I klick on the Hardware input, what should I do?

There are a few things worth mentioning: 1. Windows notification sounds always play through the audio device you’ve set in the sound settings. So if you want to filter those out, you have to route the audio you want through another channel 2. Some games/programs ignore the Windows audio mixer. They either always play through whatever is set in their settings or worse always use the main Windows output device (which makes point 1. impossible). It’s really annoying to have everything working as you want to then run into one of these programs that then breaks everything you just did. So prepare for this in advance. 3. The VB audio cables have another nice feature. They all exist as a input and output device at the same time. What they do is they send everything you play to the output device to the input device (that's also why you can hook up the input device in Voicemeeter, but actually play audio to the output device). This gives you a simple way to play sounds from you computer to a program that only accepts input devices (it’s away to annoy everyone in Discord with your own music)

Your diagram of how Voicemeeter works was a better explanation in two minutes compared to others I've seen in 20 minutes - thanks!

Thanks for this video. After watching back a few of my streams the people I play with their voice is low but the game I play the volume is so high and over powers them. I think this will do the trick!

When I set my Hardware out to my speakers with the WDM version, I get crackling/robotic sound. But it's fixed as soon as I use MME. Is there anyway to fix this, so I can use WDM?

First you came for Kelly Clarkson, and now you've gotta throw Michelle Branch under the bus? Monster.

Amazing love your videos. You have helped me so much with my stream and KZfaq channel. Usually I feel overwhelmed, but you definitely simplify it. Thank you for your time

I have used this guide to set up my voice meter if I ever have issues with it. might be 3 years old, but is still the best guide and explanation of how to use voice meter

Idk why I laughed so hard suddenly after he finished the tutorial 😂 Thanks for the video

When i choose my headset in A1 it causes an audio render error and makes me restart

OMG thank you so much you made everything that much easier to understand. I've spent hours just trying to figure out what everything mean and you seem to have thought that in minutes

Great Video, tried this with another video ages ago and got so confused, Clear and concise. Cheers!

When I set voicemeeter input as my default device, my sound gets super choppy. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Does this work for Streamlabs OB- jk does it work for Streamlabs Alert sounds however.

Phenomenal tutorial my guy. Easily the best video for this. Was clear cut and really made it all make sense in straightforward way. I never comment on videos but I had to on this one. Helped a lot.

Thank you so much!!! I literally got so confused with another video but you explained it so well!

Hey I laughed all the jokes

I don't see the master section on my voicemeeter, how can I fix this?

You really are a life saver, your video was 100% the exact thing i was looking for. You made my day, i followed all the steps you said and my stream is much more under my control now thanks to you

Best tutorial by far. I couldn’t figure it out until your video. Thanks dude!

Who else was following step by step and suddendly broken desktop audio at 5:52 ?.... :(

A windows update left my voicemeeter banana settings completely reset. This is still the best guide out there on how to set it up - thank you

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been scouring the net for a few days and almost gave up. Definitely a huge help!

this video was really helpful and I always come back to it when I need help setting this up again