"Monitor" audio and mic audio. in FB Live stream

[MrFister]

Here is the scenario. I need to play music through Apple Music app.
I need to her the track
I have mic pickup.
I am not sitting in a studio wha headset and mic.
I am moving around a "stage"

I need to hear the music. stream that same music to eh audience and of course pick up my mic.

Where I am struggling is on getting the music from Apple's Music.app into OBS in a way that I hear it and the audience does as well. I prefer not to use my mic to pickup the track for the audience end. I do not want to wear (The wife will not permit that as a requirement for her).

suggestions on what configuration I need to do?

How to I get he music into OBS (blackhole?)
How do I hear that music? Do I turn on local monitoring?
How does the audience not get an echo of blackhole and mic both picking up the audio track?


Thanks

 

[tinusriyanto]

First, let's take care of the possibility of echo. This means that you need to hear via an earphone and since you did say that you move around then it need to be a "wireless" earphone (bluetooth / radio / etc). Is that possible for you ?

 

[filbert]

I'm a novice at OBS but I have successfully used SW Audio capture to pipe music from FLV into OBS, so Apple Music should be similar. Use the SW Audio tutorials to set up.
I then monitor with bluetooth earbuds, turning on 'Monitor and Output' (I'm not 100% what this does yet) under 'Advanced Audio Properties' - click on the gearwheel by the SW Audio input on OBS. It's all covered in various tutorials on YouTube - I found this one helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-puA85ciDEM

 

[MrFister]

earphone might be a possibility at some point. I am trying to keep it as simple as i can for her starting out.
I had not thought of bluetooth earbuds forger monitor audio.
@filbert are you on a mac?

 

[tinusriyanto]

OK, since earphone is possible then we can move to the next step.
First is how to get your track into OBS. You can use blackhole or other "virtual sound card" for this. In fact I use blackhole to get my musical track into OBS. However I use a music player that have the option of selecting where the output goes (I set the output to blackhole). Then you can add your "virtual sound card" (in my case blackhole) to OBS as input. That way you will have two separate input track (your mic and your audio track).
Second, is how to hear both of your audio. The easiest way is to choose Output and Monitoring on the Advanced Audio properties. The downside of this is that your output level also becomes your monitoring level so depending on each of your level the sound on your earphone can get very loud. This is the reason why I use the Audio Monitor plugins for monitoring.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

turning on 'Monitor and Output' (I'm not 100% what this does yet) under 'Advanced Audio Properties'

Monitor = output to Desktop
Output = send audio to Record/Stream
OBS Audio related articles

• https://obsproject.com/wiki/Understanding-The-Mixer
• https://obsproject.com/wiki/Windows-10-App-Volume-Device-Preferences
• https://streamershaven.blog/softwar...hlight/advanced-audio-properties-obs-and-you/
• https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en...e-in-OBS-Open-Broadcaster-Software-on-Windows

@MrFister - as you noted, you will normally get an echo if you have a microphone on that can hear speaker output. One would reasonably ask, 'but wait, don't almost all phones, conferencing software, etc have built in noise cancelling features?' And the answer is yes. More importantly in this scenario, does Open Source OBS have such a feature, and the answer I believe is no. I'm sure there are patents on this, though if old enough??? I have not looked but I'm assuming there are plugins you could get (possibly via complex audio routing and VST plugin?) to accomplish the feature of have the audio sub-system ignore audio inputs on the mic that it has already sent out to the speakers. But room echo itself, etc complicates this to making it sound 'right'. I would NOT expect an easy, cheap solution. I would think there is hardware or pay software that can accomplish what you are looking for.
But in the free software, simple realm, I'd expect you would have to spend some time tracking down an appropriate plugin, hopefully one that is current/maintained, figuring out the plugin, then tweaking for your environment. Hopefully I'm wrong, but a super quick search just now in the OBS Resource area didn't turn up something

 

[filbert]

earphone might be a possibility at some point. I am trying to keep it as simple as i can for her starting out.
I had not thought of bluetooth earbuds forger monitor audio.
@filbert are you on a mac?

Yes, I'm using a Mac - nice shiny new M1 Macbook Pro!