Record backing track, Guitar Amp Simulator and video?

weenzeel

New Member
Hi!

OBS seems like excellent software, but I need help to get my use case to work.

I would (for my benefit) like to record videos of me playing the electric guitar. With the sound of a backing track playing on my computer, the audio coming from my guitar amplifier simulator (S-gear) and video from my webcam. I want to hear the joint audio mix in my headphones while recording.

I'm on Mac.

What I've tried so far.

Connect guitar via iRig Pro audio interface.
Connect headphones to the iRig Pro audio interface.

Install Blackhole software.

Create an aggregate audio device via Mac Midi settings with Blackhole and iRig (audio interface).
Set the aggregate audio device as the default input audio source on my Mac.

Create a multi-output device via Mac Midi settings with Blackhole and iRig.
Set the multi-output device to the default audio output source on my Mac.

In the S-gear amp simulator, I select the aggregate audio device. The aggregate device has 3 input channels and four output channels. I pick the iRig input channel as input source for my guitar. And map to the blackhole output channels for audio output. In doing so, I no longer hear the output from my amp simulator in my headphones. (If I map to the iRig audio channels of the aggregate device, I can listen to the audio from the amp simulator in my headphones.)

I play my backing track via Spotify.

I create a new OBS project. I add the multi-output audio device as input for my recording. I add my webcam as video input.

When I record, I get the backing track from Spotify and the audio from the amp sim to go into the video.

How do I get to monitor the audio recorded via my headphones? I need to hear what I'm playing.

I've tried all the monitoring settings I get if I press the advanced audio settings.

I need to learn how to map the monitoring of audio to my headphones connected to the iRig audio interface.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
 

AaronD

Active Member
OBS is not a DAW, nor does it try to be. It's a video tool with *token* audio, like the vast majority of professional tools. If you want to do more with audio than the stereotypical bedroom streamer, you need to do it in an actual DAW, and bring the finished soundtrack from there into OBS to pass through unchanged.

(DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. Basically a complete sound studio, all in one app.)
 
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