Question / Help 2pc sream setup audio questions

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Shaank0

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I am about to spend some money on getting a dedicated streaming pc setup. So i will have my Game pc and the stream PC. I have figured out all the components except the audio. Id like a setup where I can control music, Mic, and Comms (skype,vent, etc.. ) So i was thinking a mixer and Scarlet such as listed by goldgloveTV in his build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDPbA5O9THA (skip to 9minutes for his mixer setup

What i dont understand is that his components do not list multiple outputs from his PC, yet he can control the volume of his Mic, Game sound and Comms.

Could you guys help me understand how he is doing this? I have been trying to research this all day, the only thing I can think of is that he possibly has USB to Analog devices plugged into his PC that goto the Mixer.

Is this the right way to go about this? Or is there a better way. I like the idea of a mixer for some other projects i might do in the future. Im itching to buy the equipment but I dont want to buy the wrong things.
 
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TheCalculatorTi84

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I'm curious about this too.. haha. subscribed.

How can you control the teamspeak volume on the mixer is what I'm really interest in. Seen on his video.
 
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Rice

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If you run Teamspeak on a different machine, and u hook that one up on the mixer, you can control your teamspeak sound on the mixer. I have this too. So what i have is my PS4, PC, and my streaming PC all hooked up to my mixer. Then i run a game on my PC or PS4, these both have seperate channels, and my streaming PC is on a seperate channel aswell. This is were i run teamspeak on.

Then you plug your headphones into your mixer, and you hear all those channels simultaniously. You connect the main-out of the mixer to your capture device, or simply (like i did) hook your mixer up to your streaming PC, using USB. My mixer has a USB connection so it kinda works like soundcard. I can use my mixer as a device in OBS.

The mixer i have is a Behringer XENYX Q1202USB. Works pretty good to mix up your volumes :D I'm super happy with it.
 
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Rice

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No prob bro! Here to help. BTW, if you are going to buy a mixer, and if you were going to buy the one i have at the moment, you would have 4 inputs. That should be more than enough. If that isnt enough there also is a tapedeck-in which virtually is your 5th input.

Anyway, what i wanted to say is, that if you have like 3 devices hooked up to a mixer, you are always going to experience a nasty problem. And that nasty problem is called 'groundloop noise'. Basicly what this is, is in this case 3 devices are fighting for 'ground'. This fighting for ground causes a nasty noise on your audiostream and you don't want that. So what you need to do to fix this, is buy an groundloop isolator for every device you are going to attach to the input of your mixer. So in this case i bought 3 groundloop isolators, one for my PC, one for my streaming PC and one for my PS4. This fixed that issue f or me. This also gets rid of nasty DC noises that you get when hooking up a USB cable to the PS4 joypad when using the audio jack as an output for your stream. Pro tip!
 
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