Question / Help Dual PC streaming setup help

[Videophile]

Hey guys,

I have multiple posts on this forum, but I am moving ahead with my decision to go dual-PC streaming.

My gaming PC has these specs:
2600k @4.0Ghz
AMD 7970.

My streaming PC has these specs:
4930k @4.0Ghz
GT650

Capture card:
XCapture-1 from Micomsoft

So this in essence very easy to setup, but I am running into one issue. Audio.

How do I get my PC audio to my Astro A40 mix amp, and to the streaming PC at the same time?

I have tried VAC, and sending it to the HDMI Xcapture-1 but there is a delay between the game(bf4) and audio due to VAC's buffer.

Here are two scenarios I have found so far:

1. Somehow send the audio through 2 sound cards on the gaming PC(How do you do that) and send one of those outputs to the streaming PC Mic input port.

2. Use a mix(So far my preferred way) however, the mixers don't have 3.5mm inputs, and seem a little confusing, but easier to route audio.


So guys,

Thoughts?

Thanks,

-Shrimp

 

[dodgepong]

1. Somehow send the audio through 2 sound cards on the gaming PC(How do you do that) and send one of those outputs to the streaming PC Mic input port.

Go to your Windows recording devices and look at the properties of your main output Stereo Mix. Go to the Listen tab and check "Listen to this device" and select your second output. That will output the same audio to both places.

2. Use a mix(So far my preferred way) however, the mixers don't have 3.5mm inputs, and seem a little confusing, but easier to route audio.

You mean a hardware mixer? What kind?

 

[Videophile]

2. Use a mix(So far my preferred way) however, the mixers don't have 3.5mm inputs, and seem a little confusing, but easier to route audio.

You mean a hardware mixer? What kind?[/quote]

Something like this: Mackie 802-VLZ3 Ultra Compact 8-Channel Mixer

 

[dodgepong]

Sure, that will work, though perhaps a bit overkill for just this. You can use a splitter to turn a 3.5mm stereo jack into 2 1/4" mono jacks, and use channels 5/6 and 7/8 as two stereo inputs, mix them together however you want, and then split the output to the two destinations.

 

[Videophile]

Sure, that will work, though perhaps a bit overkill for just this. You can use a splitter to turn a 3.5mm stereo jack into 2 1/4" mono jacks, and use channels 5/6 and 7/8 as two stereo inputs, mix them together however you want, and then split the output to the two destinations.

That is exactly what I want. Combine game audio from gaming PC and Music from streaming PC, then send one output to Headphones, the other to streaming PC. Also, there should be almost no delay correct? My capture card has no delay, and its very nice to not have to fumble around with that.

You said the mixer I should you was overkill. Could you recommend one that does what I need it to? Multi-input and dual output?

<3

-Shrimp

 

[dodgepong]

You don't need dual output, since you can do single output and use a splitter.

Something as simple as a Behringer XENYX 802 would work, since all you need is two stereo inputs whose levels you can adjust however you want. Get a couple of these to input your two audio sources, and then a Mono -> Stereo 1/4" adapter for the output, and a stereo splitter to send it to your two sources. In fact, you might not even need the splitter if you use both the master output and the phones output, though that would be a bit more complicated with two output levels to manage. There wouldn't be any delay.

Don't feel like you should only get exactly what you need in terms of mixers, though...I got an 18-channel mixer when I was gearing up for doing more high-level esports productions, never imagining I would ever use them all, but I am very glad I got a big one, and have used a lot more channels than I expected at the same time. Not to say you need to do that, but I do recommend giving yourself some room to grow, if you think you might.

On third thought, the mixer I linked isn't much less complicated than the one you already linked, so whatever. :P

 

[Boildown]

Personally in my 2-PC setup I just use a Y splitter on the front channel, stream the fronts as stereo, and don't stream the surround channels. Listening to the stream it very rarely makes any difference, and a watcher/listener would never know. Occasionally I explain that I just heard footsteps or whatever out of the rear channel and that's why I'm looking that direction, just gives something else to talk about.

 

[Lilrex]

I just found this post after I created mine, can someone take a look and let me know what I am doing wrong? I do not see the audio form gaming rig 1 registering on OBS on gaming rig 2. I am trying to do the 3.5 mm to dual 1/4 jacks but cant seem to get it working.

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/2-pc-streaming-setup-audio-passing.19368/

 

[Lilrex]

You don't need dual output, since you can do single output and use a splitter.

Something as simple as a Behringer XENYX 802 would work, since all you need is two stereo inputs whose levels you can adjust however you want. Get a couple of these to input your two audio sources, and then a Mono -> Stereo 1/4" adapter for the output, and a stereo splitter to send it to your two sources. In fact, you might not even need the splitter if you use both the master output and the phones output, though that would be a bit more complicated with two output levels to manage. There wouldn't be any delay.

Don't feel like you should only get exactly what you need in terms of mixers, though...I got an 18-channel mixer when I was gearing up for doing more high-level esports productions, never imagining I would ever use them all, but I am very glad I got a big one, and have used a lot more channels than I expected at the same time. Not to say you need to do that, but I do recommend giving yourself some room to grow, if you think you might.

On third thought, the mixer I linked isn't much less complicated than the one you already linked, so whatever. :P

I currently use the cable to mixer to other pc setup but the audio form the first computer comes in quiet and sounding like chipmunks on the streaming computer. Thoughts?