Question / Help Help with multiple audio sources.

[iPrizefighter]

I've been looking all over the internet for help on this subject and basically every solution I find is the same jumbled non-answer to my actual question.

I want to stream both my speaker sound output (game sounds, music) simultaneously with my headphones output (voip, skype). I keep reading posts about using virtual device to combine multiple outputs, but all I've found so far have been multiple audio inputs into one output.

Can anyone please explain to me what I'm doing wrong? I see streamers all the time with headphones on, streaming game sounds, music, skype, and their microphone, and I can't imagine they are running all the sounds through their headphone output, that just seems like a headache.

Is there a way to combine multiple outputs into one device or am I destined to have every sound blast my ears constantly?

 

[Jack0r]

Actually, I am really wondering about the people that do NOT output everything through their headset.
My microphone would pick up anything I output through external speakers. The complication of recording it is just another bad thing about it. So the only reason I personally see to use more than one output, is if you want to exclude sound off the stream, but in that case I still wouldnt output it through speakers so I can hear it but use a vac setup for it.

Your solution would be to use VAC Line1 as the Speaker and a second VAC Line as your headset. Now for OBS you mix both lines on VAC Line3 for example, and let OBS record that. For output you use two repeaters, the first inputs Line1 and Outputs to your Speakers, the second inputs Line2 and goes to your Headset.
So VAC Line1 would be default playback device in windows to receive game sound and music, and Line2 needs to be selected in your Voip/Skype software.

 

[iPrizefighter]

Any recommendations for a VAC?

 

[XkickboardX]

Personally, I have audio output through USB and analog because I have separate volume controls for my headset for chat and game so I split my default com device off to my headset and leave my default device as my analog. Broadcasting is a problem though because OBS can only handle 1. This does create quite the issue because viewers don't know what I'm talking about/to say like when I'm playing in a tourney for LoL. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

so from everything that I read in Jack0r's guide on his site: http://www.helping-squad.com/how-to...-your-stream-with-or-without-hearing-them-v2/

-my setup-
analog speakers: game/music/whatever else
usb headset speakers: skype/mumble/raidcall
usb headset mic: skype/obs/mumble/raidcall

I should be able to merge my mic and VoIP audio by doing the following:

Install Voice Meeter and VB Cable: http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/

sound properties > Recording> (right click) VB-Audio cable output > Listen > USB headset speakers

run Voice meeter
hardware input 1: USB headset mic
hardware input 2: VB-Audio cable output
hardware output: analog speakers(for testing)

so i wasn't getting even my mic through my analog speakers...

 

[Jack0r]

A user on my page once had a Headset that gave him two audio devices too, I recommended him this setup, but he never replied back:
Hmm, you could probably use 2 Virtual Audio Cables to first grab the sound, then send it to each of the Headset devices, and combine it once on a 3rd Virtual Audio Cable for your recording software.

Replace PX22 Game and Voice with your analog/headset of course. It might be doable with VB-Audio (if you get the version with 2 cables) and the Voice Meter but for some reason people often struggled and went over to Virtual Audio Cable and bought that instead.

 

[XkickboardX]

so I donated a few bucks and got VAC as well.

set everything up the way you described(I think)

but keep getting errors when i try to start the repeaters:

not sure what I've setup wrong...

 

[Jack0r]

The KS mixer from VAC can be a bit iffy to get to work, try it with the MME repeater instead.
And you seem to be mixing VAC and VB-Cable. (Using VB-Cable`s with VAC-Mixer) Might wanna try removing VB-Cable and just using VAC :)