Dual PC Audio Setup: How to Send Audio & Microphone over Ethernet

[@Turnkeys42]

I'm not a streamer, but had similar needs. I didn't realize the stream names are part of the handshaking protocols. (I think their devs should add an info box on hover) With that self-imposed handicap, it took me a bit longer. Once I figured it out, I came back to your vid to complete the setup. I had your vid on both systems, toggling back and forth to make sure I hadn't handicapped myself again. My mic was down and I saw discord activate, while still hearing the video (toggling) on both systems. My first reaction was, "Wait, why is that working?" Excellent walkthrough, succinct and clear. I'll definately keep this one in my toolbox. Subbed. 😃

[@Snozzer]

If anyone else happens to come by this video and was also having trouble with choppy/glichy audio, try this. Instead of WDM for the audio duplicates, select the MME one. This removed all chopiness from the steamed PC audio, and also fixed an issue with KZbin failing to render/play videos while Voicemeeter was active. My laptop that I'm streaming audio from to my PC is even on WiFi and works great! Just try changing the A1 sources until it comes through clear!

[@TheMycelliac]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@Ahtisham]

Thanks man,nice tip.

[@Civid]

thanks man

[@rishpalwadalia]

Thanks very much for a no nonsense and straightforward guide. It helped a lot, the internet needs more vids like these. Good job!

[@TechGuides]

Thanks! I'm glad this was helpful

[@RamblinVan]

This was so easy. Should've done it long ago. I like using my laptop instead of a second monitor and this is perfect for watching videos on the laptop while gaming. Thanks!

[@cosminbarbuceanu]

You're an absolute legend mate , finaly someone that know how to explain things properly ! Keep up the good work !

[@TechGuides]

Thank you so much, really appreciate that :)

[@vonlionwav]

The sheer amount of non bullshit straight up to the deal type of stuff. You sir hit the nail. You made it so digestible and so uncomplicated. Thank you!

[@TechGuides]

Much appreciated!

[@1goldenseraph]

i spent an hour trying to use youtube videos to set this thing up correctly & just when i was about to call it quits an watched ur video LAST VIDEO.. & u did it bro... streaming like crazy now to a 8 speaker setup

[@TechGuides]

Awesome! Rock on :)

[@TechGuides]

Déjà vu anyone? I'm afraid I had to re-upload this since the original video contained some wrong information! Enjoy your two PC streaming setups guys

[@rjbizzy8525]

How to avoid looping Alerts? If my stream PC is alerting then sending me the Audio to hear.. won't it send it twice and create and infinite loop?

[@firedforfighting]

Outstanding! Thank you so much for your time sharing this!...I would also like to point out anyone not seeing the green box when you enter IP, I found 2 solutions you might try that workd together for me: 1- use the ip addresses assigned by your router instead of what voicemeeter showed mine were wonky for whatever reasons 2- create rules for windows firewall to allow access for incoming and outgoing, I created 4 for each pc 1tcp and 1 udp for incoming 1tcp and 1udp for outgoing. It automatially did on one pc and did not on another, windows is so inconsistent! Also only allow on private networks!! Hope it helps! Also this is what worked for me your mileage may vary

[@MrCrashFM]

thanks

[@mosegaard2242]

i dont se the green square on the first pc

[@AnthonyVGibby]

I can't express enough how much this video has helped me out in my current computer setup.

[@riggs2291]

Are both of your computers plugged into ethernet? One of mine is not and It is not working. Please Help!!!!

[@AliMohammed-bg9ju]

@@riggs2291 I have one to ether one to wifi and it works :D

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

My goodness, if I had known this was possible and even so easy to setup... I had quite some static I could not solve with cabling etc... with my new pc setup I was almost looking to buy some hardware to solve it. But this solved all my issues in 10 minutes, amazing ! Thanks !

[@GeminiNight]

Amazing guide tysm! Now I can send all my audio where it needs to be and learn a new way to use Voicemetre Potate. Subscribed and liked because this was the first straight forward video I have found in many searches. Beep Boop

[@f.miller801]

I ain't gonna lie when I googled it I wasn't expecting to find exactly what I was needing.

[@Ocelico]

Still a great way to do it. Great guide, thank you.

[@shynbomx2884]

Thank you so much! I've been struggled by not be able to found a single software that can do this.

[@johncastaneda3881]

having trouble getting gaming sound to streaming pc in obs

[@hermannvalsson4237]

This is a great video about this complexd subject and yes you are really going to the deep part of the swimming pool, ut thank you very much.

[@arabicskillz]

This is by far the best video about this topic, good job!

[@TechGuides]

Glad it was helpful!

[@wessnae]

THIS VIDEO IS THE BEST! ONLY ONE I COULD ACTUALLY GO ALONG WITH! THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!

[@paulosilva888]

This is fabulous. Excellent material, you were very didactic. Great. Great work.

[@L3OGX]

My man made this so simple. Subscribed

[@omgsharks]

Very informative and straight forward video. You helped me solve a major issue with my 2 pc setup. subbed for sure!

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate your support! Cheers

[@PsychoBlueDot]

OMG this is amazing! Thank you for the in-depth setup!!! I was curious if this would actually work and it does!!

[@TechGuides]

Cheers!

[@HixxyDubz]

at 4:14 you state that the IP can be found at the top, but you entered in a different IP?

[@wtolivier3267]

Wow Thanks for the help! This is just what i was looking for. Been struggling for a while now.

[@TechGuides]

Glad this helped you!

[@crodread]

one of the best turtorials I ever watched, helped me a lot wit understanding logic behind software (I'm using potato on 2nd pc with virtual cables), also warzone settings video gave me most performance and visibility and everyone ask me about it and i refer them to your chanell, hats off to you

[@TechGuides]

Really appreciate your super nice comment, thank you!

[@Zidakuh]

Protip: if you own an audio interface (e.g. Focusrite Scarlett, Presonus Audiobox, etc.) you may see the option to use ASIO as the default output driver. This is extremely useful if you want to monitor your own voice through VoiceMeeter as ASIO drivers can be run at really low buffer sizes. In general, any modern PC should ve able to get away with 192 - 256 samples at 48kHz which roughly translates to 10-12 milliseconds give or take a few extra for safety overhead. It should be noted, if you run your samplerate higher than 48kHz, you should double or quadruple your buffersize accordingly (48kHz at 256 samples, 96kHz at 512 samples, and so on), else you might get crakling audio.

[@stefmilk]

Ur an absolute legend man, made my night

[@travelwilder]

Can you transmit over internet rather than local.

[@mateosabando]

did you find out? I need to know desperately

[@travelwilder]

@@mateosabando Nope. I cant do that I'm guessing.

[@PaulE46]

Hi i am a complete newbie when it comes to this voicemeter. Your a legend with your video I have my audio on both PC's amazing. Thanks for the help! liked and subscribed!!

[@benjamynmathias1710]

Would it be possible for one mac and one pc?

[@strats84]

Thank you good sir. Incredible and very easy to follow guide!

[@ALEJANDRORAMIREZLOPEZ-i2w]

Thank you so much dudeeeeee. Shoutout from mexico!

[@Zikorik]

Super useful, exactly what I needed thank you.

[@hhds113]

Thank you SO much. Your video helped a lot and made since on what I was doing wrong.

[@lAR3l]

You have a new sub right here! I was trying so hard to send the audio of my gaming pc to another little one thats manages my hires dac and I didnt want to conect my electrical noisy pc to the little one. This program is so cool. Now I can watch youtube on my first pc and listen in my hifi gear. Of course I wouldnt use this to listen my games; but for casual things, is a master piece.

[@TechGuides]

Awesome, I'm glad this helped you!

[@peterpace5975]

I have a question. Is there anyway to send audio to another PC of specific IP? PC not in LAN, to specific IP address like Anydesk or Teamviewer.

[@mateosabando]

did you find out? I need to know desperately

[@DisiHahn]

it work but still sound is coming out from the speakers of 2 pc, how can i fix it ?

[@Scalë9221]

The only thing that made this more complicated than it need to be, for me at least was labeling the pcs. Gaming PC and Stream PC would be far more clear than PC1 and PC2. Maybe i missed when you spelled out which was which, but for me, being unclear on the 2 made this far more complicated.

[@TechGuides]

Yeah sorry but I though it was obvious that the first was the gaming PC. Like it would hardly make sense to play on the inferior secondary PC but I got that comment a lot so yeah...

[@fabianvasquezjr8852]

AVB protocol? 64x64 audio video send anything down cat6 cable.

[@IndPolCom]

How to connect ethernet mic to windows ?

[@justinwhite2725]

Bump for the algorithm. This is much easier to do than i feared.

[@TechGuides]

Cheers!

[@mr_wildside]

my elgato quit transporting audio and was struggling figuring out audio appreciate the tutorial! great alternative!

[@luciano.gonzalez]

dude, this was exactly was i was looking for, thanks for the tutorial!!

[@TechGuides]

Glad I could help!

[@f3ll0gaming49]

I’m receiving crackling/robotic audio from pc #2. All voice meeter vban and main settings are set to the correct sample rate. Double checked all windows sound control panel’s sample rates too. Pc #1 is fine though

[@anoy8875]

Same issue!

[@rinkaemina]

if not working, sound does not transfer to another pc. try fix it just by close both app and then open again, walla it working. Thank, no BS on your tutorial, really helpful.

[@MisterSkids]

my audio sends to my second PC but wont send it back so I can get rid of hearing my own mic...its a nightmare

[@goharbashir6546]

answer plz obs setting?

[@kornboards]

Thanks for the helpful video. I'm off to try this setup.

[@jeff_allen96]

Thank you very much, this helps massively !!

[@TundraTR]

i have my mic connected to my gaming pc, I connected that to my streaming pc and I am able to hear it when i’m streaming, however my game audio doesn’t play, I can hear it on the streaming of however it won’t connect to my streamlabs

[@ONYXlON]

I have this same issue, did you fix it?

[@TundraTR]

@@ONYXlON yeah I managed to fix it!

[@shaunpleasant2314]

@@TundraTR how did you manage to fix it?

[@Grimxk]

How do you set it up in obs

[@Siek_]

Man... just amazing! Ty for all and good explaned information!

[@TechGuides]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ghostiiOnSpotify]

is there any delay with this?

[@TechGuides]

Didn't test for delay but I guess there is minimal delay preset, so you probably don't want to listen to the streamed audio and watch the original at the same time

[@XxRiddlexxMexxThisxX]

Ah thank you, Had trouble setting it up but re did the setting a couple of times and managed to get it running👍

[@jules_sabatier]

wtf you are a legend mate nice video!!

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@RIC3TV]

Is there a way to do this were you can play music on stream on Twitch and not having music on the vod after?

[@Tautveedas]

this one(video) is extremely helpful!!! thanks

[@Punhcy]

hello i need help it wont work and says no incoming streams and i tried this for over an hour

[@kimpine44]

I thank you a million times over!

[@TechGuides]

Glad this was helpful!

[@ijsa2187]

regreso cada año para ver el mismo tutorial cada que muevo la configuración del voicemeeter, muchas gracias 😭😭

[@TechGuides]

Glad to hear this video is still relevant.

[@HamedBehin]

Is it possible to play the computer sound on two computers at the same time (the main and a second one)?

[@jazzboy]

Great Vid!!!

[@TechGuides]

Thanks!

[@EddieMartinez210]

Ok question that I really need help with and that’s I set this up and it worked fine but I noticed that I reset my WiFi or turn off my pc I have to do this all over again like it won’t save is there a reason why

[@taithermansen8315]

Hey I’m not sure if you can help me one step further by integrating a goxlr into the setup. Right now I use a goxlr to broadcast the gaming pc and mic to the streaming pc but I want to separate the mic audio out of the mix so that with later recording it can be muted independently. I think this solution would work if I could figure out how to integrate the goxlr as well

[@Banned_Profiles]

Thanks for making an incredible guide! I learned a lot. Voicemeeter continues to amaze me, I've seen these options before and now I know how to utilize them if need be 👍🏻

[@sinofbarraka5756]

good stuff, helped me out a lot, wish I found you 4 hours earlier!

[@cagedkira6133]

so if you are selecting it as your audio device on the pc sound settings, would it still pick up your elgato capture device sound?

[@p0ppytears]

Hey, I got this working successfully to stream audio from my laptop to my desktop and it seems to also be playing audio out of the laptop speakers as well. How do I stop that? I just want it to stream it to the desktop

[@GamingViewChannel-up9hv]

hey thanks for this, however whenever i connect with vban, my wifi goes off after a while on the receiving pc...what do you think is the issue?

[@sirenfnbr]

I cant find Voicemeter output on discord what do i do?

[@technitout4141]

So I'm slightly confused about something. I got this all working and everything but here's the thing. What if I use Discord on Gaming PC and I want my Gaming audio and Mic Audio for the stream sent to the stream PC? Like, I get the whole receiving sound from Stream PC to hear everything but how is my Audio setup so that my Stream PC receives my Main PC Audio and Mic for the stream?

[@cmoneygg5980]

same issue here. My stream doesn't pick up the game audio/gamechat from the gaming PC. If i select channel B on virtual input on the gaming PC i can get the audio to work but then whoever im playing with here's themselves

[@shaunpleasant2314]

@@cmoneygg5980 have you found the solution?

[@cmoneyshorts7719]

Yes I did. This is still the best video I’ve found that explains how to VBAN everything. I think I had an extra A1 channel enabled and had to toggle some mutes around. I use VM Banana, but all these settings apply

[@Rated_Gnar]

Followed step by step, cannot get my second pc to send audio to my main pc. Everything LOOKS fine according to the steps in the video, but my 2nd pc is just playing out of the speakers of itself. Changed the windows audio settings and everything.

[@Chugastance]

Yo big homie doing big things

[@zanosilence5516]

can you have two microphones from two seperate pc's speaking on 1 pc

[@whack1129]

So what do I do if it’s not detecting the other stream? I have an Ethernet cable connect to both PCs

[@alistonrodricks596]

You are a life saver BROOOOooo!!!!! THANKS A LOT!!

[@JamskinGaming]

Hello just stumbled on this video when as I m trying to get all audio from my gaming pc to the streaming pc this looks as if it will be a lot of help. Is there a way to get the game Audio over to the steam PC as currently all I can get is the gameplay itself which is obviously not good thanks for any help in advance

[@TechGuides]

Sorry Im a bit confused. You write that you get gameplay audio over but not game audio? What do you mean?

[@JamskinGaming]

@@TechGuides No dude I said I game get the gameplay itself(footage) but can’t get audio of any kind over so game audio, microphone etc

[@DireLykaios]

If anyone has problems where the stream wont turn green for the receiving PC, make sure an output is selected under A1 or A2 on the main mixer page first.

[@analogdistortion]

You mean a speaker output on the receiving PC?

[@Nathlaaar]

Streamlabs isn't picking up the audio :(

[@LanceMorriscelticskobe04]

well i did things step by step and on the streaming pc it wasnt saying there was an incoming stream what do i do?

[@Ruie]

im so confused.. my mic is on my game PC im tryna get audio to Stream PC. that works, now i cant hear discord or any YT videos....

[@FREESPIRITYT]

change playback device option to (voice meter input) in gaming pc and u can hear all sound bro

[@rubenlopez453]

why is there an error popping up when i try to send my audio to my streaming pc it lets me send my mic over but not my audio

[@fettekatze9456]

Do the 2 pcs have to use the samew ethernet, or can they be connected to different routers and have different Ip adress?

[@PLUS-Valorant]

You save the day brother !

[@Amenakhte]

So on my Streamlabs OBS, I am still not getting audio from my game. I can hear Discord from my gaming PC to my streaming PC but no sound from games like WoW for example. What am I missing?

[@YeloPartyHat]

I can't for the life of me get the stream to output at around 3:50 onwards. The green light is appearing but for both ways, no audio is getting received. I even tested the connection via the VBAN chatroom and I can send chat messages, streaming audio does not work at all though.

[@YeloPartyHat]

I think this might be a bug but I renamed the stream names and that totally breaks the streams. Reset the config and ONLY set the ip address & port. So stupid...

[@YeloPartyHat]

I just found out the STREAM NAMES are not metadata but actual identifying information about the channel. How stupid 🤦‍♀

[@mrsisig7443]

Thank you for the video. Just a question, I just want my laptop to handle mic and discord, and I want that audio sent to my gaming PC. Is it the same thing on the first part of your video?

[@sappireflames0009]

Is there a channel limit to this? For my specific application I want to send a dolby atmos signal to my second pc to stream to my receiver.

[@cristi8732]

Hi, very useful tutorial but for some reason I cannot get PC2 to receive any input from PC1. PC2 is remote so on a different router at a different address. Do you think this is the reason? I am using a virtual VPN client (SoftEther) to make PC1 think PC2 is on the same router and I'm able to run other programs but for some reason I cannot get VoiceMeeter to behave the same.

[@AhmedZeinhomm]

hey thank you so much for the idea , if you can please help i get the first green bar for the output then i dont get it agian for the incoming the step at 4:41 what should i do ? i really need this

[@fenrir_boo]

i only have one problem, apparently even if I sync the 2nd computer to main the audio from the second computer still plays thru its speakers Any solution to fix this?

[@Bugster-ot6mq]

i can hear the audio form my streaming pc on my gaming pc but the my gaming pc audio is not being played on streaming pc for the viewers to hear

[@The_Apple_Sheep]

How can i stop the audio from coming from my laptop speakers and going to my main PC? I have this setup to stream audio from my laptop to my main PC so I can listen to YT videos without having to have one earcup off. However, my audio still is being played on the laptop itself which I don't want it to. I tried turning the volume down, but that didn't work. Also, speaking of volume, how do I change the volume of voicemeeter on my laptop using regular volume keys? Volume keys don't seem to work for me

[@threeFPS]

I can't get this to work, I can get the stream between the two PCs to work perfectly fine but then I cannot hear the other PC's audio. Also, whenever I try to select the WDM option, I can hear my microphone loopback. Please help!

[@ValidVoid]

I'm a little confused, at 6:57 you say that pc 2 is your streaming pc but then at 7:25 you say that pc 2 is your streaming pc.

[@TechGuides]

Did you mistype? PC1 = gaming PC PC2 = streaming PC

[@ValidVoid]

Ah, ok. I thought you had said that pc 2 was the gaming pc. Thank you very much. 👍

[@Th3outs1ser]

Hello! how can i hear the alerts from the Streaming pc to my gaming pc? thank u

[@francis_ces]

Hi! Is there any app possible if I were to stream on a Mac with a PC gaming machine? I am having a hard time finding a way of sending my PC's audio to my Macbook.

[@ZalRBLX]

how do i mute the audio on my gaming pc so that it only goes through my headphones

[@kornboards]

Select your headphones as your A1 Hardware out.

[@koledirks]

not sure why when I'm trying to get my mic from my gaming pc to go to my streaming pc the streaming pc isn't saying that 1 stream is detected it still says none and I can't get it to connect that way though it does connect sending audio from the streaming pc to the gaming pc....so not sure what I'm gonna do with this :(