How to Fix Voicemeeter Audio Crackling Issues

[@Jackson21229]

anyone else watching this with the crackling sounds

[@Cain532.]

Not anymore! Had to re-watch it SEVERAL times to get it tweaked..... What worked best for me was uninstalling VBCables and reinstalling the 64 bit ones. H ad to TOTALLY remove them... Then played with the buffer settings and a few other things here and there. so far so good!

[@erwinvanes911]

Use ASIO like the PRESON.. Studio , not the FOCUSR...

[@shadyman3351]

@@miguelcarranzo bruhhh thats me rn

[@naughtykid000]

switch to default?

[@shadyman3351]

naughtykid000 exactly, I don’t use voicemeeter input, there’s no point. I just use my direct headphone connection

[@kqzo]

note: i fixed this by setting "preferred main sample rate" to "44100" or "48000"

[@roger4491]

WOW THX

[@TutuYuuki]

thank you so much

[@nashhh2005]

me too

[@AbstraKTV252]

OMGGGGG LIFE!! THANK YOU KAZOOOOOO!!!! everything i tried DIDN'T work. Changing my sample rate def worked! Appreciate YOU!

[@Deolifica]

I did that too. But it did not fix for good. Eventually the crackling would come back and I would have to change it back to 44100 for a few working minutes, then to 48k for a few minutes, and so on.

[@BenieTheDragon]

I increased WDM's buffer to 704 (from the default 512), and this got rid of the choppy, 'laggy' sound for me that friends have complained about, saying I'm "lagging" and "sound like a robot". Using MME didn't help in anyway. Thank you SO much for this video. :) I would had been utterly lost without it. Just hope increasing the buffer didn't cause more of a delay. I'll find out later.

[@punkttoni6366]

thanks dude helps me more then from wdm to mme since now I searched the problem and found u comment. U are my herooo

[@DanielLiljeberg]

WDM is Windows Driver Model and is one of a few different sound systems to have made it's way into Windows over the years. MME is another, called Multimedia Extension and then you have KS which is Kernel streaming.

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Thanks for the insight! Background in audio or Windows Services?

[@fuzzydark1395]

THANKS, LOVE YOU MAN, SWITCHED FROM WDM TO MME AND STARTED WORKING PERFECTLY FINE YES

[@inannastorm5611]

@@fuzzydark1395 Your comment saved me!!!

[@susuoreo3812]

Dude thanks a lot, this works!!!

[@DanielLiljeberg]

@@HowToMediaHQ Nope, just been around since the Windows 3 days 😀

[@WriterSanctuary]

So, switching the main output from WDM to MME worked instantly. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

[@Ocidad]

Yesss ❤❤

[@zombieguitar]

You are the man!! Setting my mic to "WDM" and the computer audio to "MME" was what fixed it for me. I had them both set to "MME" before and it was causing nasty crackling in my mic. Thanks so much for this video!!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Glad I could help!

[@iraj9884]

You, sir, have singlehandedly put my suffering to an end. I spent HOURS troubleshooting and all I had to do was switch from WDM to MME :/ THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS :)))

[@method1wnl]

thank you so much for this comment

[@crossbolt27salt88]

SAME!

[@dracofrostdragon]

Bless you, I didn't even need to watch the video

[@zinkovetskiy]

Interestingly, no one on KZbin seems to talk about buffer size except for you. UNBELIEVABLE! Thank you for your video! You're saving folks back from 2019)

[@nokmiomi]

2024

[@CobaltRift]

I think your bigger issue may have been that you were mixing 44,100 and 48,000 Hz audio and I suspect the larger buffer was needed for them convert properly. If you could change those to either all 44,100 Hz or 48,000 Hz then the buffer wouldn't need to be as large as there is no conversion needed.

[@jupiterbjy]

Yup this fixed, was using 48000Hz on VB Banana while output device was 44100Hz

[@raniachairya]

How do you know or check whether it's 44,100 or 48,000 Hz?

[@iamkokan]

YES BRO THANKS

[@thejester8002]

Both of my Things are 48k hrz, and voice meeter is set to that, everything is set to it, and the audio is poop. It worked until I opened my audio settings, and it just stopped working.

[@pereparabol]

This must be the answer. I changed the VB cable settings to 48,000 Hz in Windows settings and now nothing crackles.

[@orionp4532]

I apologize I did not watch your video, but only because the comments on this video are great and solved my problems within the first 15 seconds of watching this video. Commenting and liking to boost for algorithm

[@morphes]

Your mic sounded way better on banana IMO without the filters. Thank you for posting! Hopefully it fixed the issue!

[@umamisoy]

Fixing the issue sometimes is not everything, sometimes you also need to know WHY the problem occurs. thanks for making the video, now I know what to look for if this happens to me.

[@3XBgaming]

Watched your video with the crackling sound and was fixed as I was following your instructions.. LEGEND..

[@thatmatiaskid4753]

literally uninstalled drivers, tried changing all sound settings and everything in between and nothing worked. IT WAS THIS SIMPLE. wow thanks for this!!

[@thatmatiaskid4753]

well im back to say that unfortuntely it did not fix it , it only fixed for a few minutes then it was back to doing teh same thing

[@MilanRericha]

Thanks for hints. In my case it did not work, but when I changed the mic from WDM to MME, the problem is gone.

[@Lothyde]

tbh your microphone sounds better without the effects you add to it

[@lonji3526]

his mic hurts my ear, sounded so much better without any modifications...

[@therealcat5794]

His microphone just had too much gain and the bass was boosted 2x more than It should have been.

[@brdon2099]

@@Brodc lo0l st8fu you insecure dumba$$ seems like ur projecting get blocked ;)

[@bigwigdog]

LEGEND i had been at it for like 5 hours , finally got audio working, started streaming and crackles. Thanks so much for this vid

[@EuphieEuphoria]

Thank you so much, I didn't even think to check whether I was overloading audio channels or not

[@philjames1019]

You sir are a complete star!!! Problem cured within seconds of your video .... stay safe!!

[@MinoIV]

"Are you guys tired of voicemeeter or voicemeeter potato or voicemeeter banana having these weird crackling issues-" Me, ears in pain while watching with crackling issues: mmmhmmmmm 😶 edit: thank you so much for this, it worked

[@worldsokayestcatdad6798]

Thank you so much. I've been looking into Voicemeeter and was struggling to fix my issue, but you saved me so much time!

[@gluteusmaximus7608]

HOLYYY, changing from WDM to MME in my "Browser" audio channel worked instantly. Ty

[@Zynphii]

Thanks man, this really helped as it was happening on my laptop and didn't know what was the issue and then it happened on my desktop.

[@r.salisbury133]

I had it set to WDM and increasing the buffer made it much worse. Best buffer size was 256 but that was still crackling. Setting the output to MME solved the issue and had better EQ for some reason as well. EDIT: I just fixed the crackling on WDM and the problem was the sound device's setting was 24bit 48kHz. I changed it to 24bit 44.1kHz and the crackling stopped. MME still sounds better though.

[@foncareth7857]

oh man ! beign dealing with this for a year now, while streaming on twitch had to alt+tab and restart the voicemeeter in the middle of a game to solve it, sometimes more than once in a round, but now thanks to you i understand why it happened and fixed it, THANK YOU

[@FxaS1]

If your voice is till "Crackling" in TS3 go to (in ts3) to Menu>Tools>Options>Capture mode is set to „Automatically use best mode” Change to anything other than that, restart TS3, and see if it solved your issue. worked for me, idk why tho

[@freudegger]

Finally! Increasing my wdm buffer fixed the issue with the microphone in Discord, thank you very much, man!))

[@Skinterwin]

This channel has save me many times, take your sub

[@DrTuSo]

Thank you, that finally fixed my problems here i was having for over a year. Even after upgrading to complete new hardware i had that crackling. The only thing that was always the same was Voicemeter...

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Great to hear!

[@Kostanj42]

just changing it to MME made a HUGE diffrence, and increasing the buffer one step made it perfect. thanks!

[@renantesia6373]

Video was a big help. I've been having these problems for quite some time.

[@okayilaggedttv9672]

Thank you! Im usually way more tech savy to have a issue like this that i cant solve. But you 100% fixed my issue.

[@HowToMediaHQ]

That's great to hear. Happy to help!

[@MEGADINOSAURHUNTER]

You're a certified G for this one. Thank you!

[@CeceSaysBye]

Thank you! I only had two channels and still got the crackling. I was uploading to YT at the time so maybe that affected the network latency/buffer in some way as well. Either way, switching one channel from WDM to MME worked. Didn't need to touch the buffer sizes.

[@Visstnok]

What fixed the crackling sounds my friends would hear in Discord, was going into Sound Control Panel (the classic one), and in the Recording tab making sure Default Device and Default Communications device was on VoiceMeeter Output and VoiceMeeter Aux Output, and use those in Discord. Windows Update had tampered with my Control Panel settings somehow.

[@ProfessorTedStephenson]

The MME helped reduce crackling on my hardware out (A2) to a Bose Bluetooth headset - was not getting crackling on recording out - but was crackling in my ear and switching from WDM Bose to MME Bose helped reduce that a lot - thanks.

[@Fighter_Builder]

I was starting to get worried when I started getting super crackly audio when using VoiceMeeter the next day after I installed it. I needed it in order to properly route audio from my cheap HDMI capture card for streaming. I had no idea the solution was this simple lol, thanks for making this video!

[@fabians1885]

Welp I uninstalled it bcs it didn’t go away

[@SeliGYT]

My crackling was super minimum so just changing to MME was enough ;) I'll test it more later on stream lol Thanks man!

[@ObservationsInPower]

If you are having issues with your mic working properly with discord, this solution ALSO fixes that problem. Thanks for the help

[@MichaelW1980randoms]

For anyone who uses ASIO and didn’t find this video useful: Setting the ASIO Buffer in Voicemeeter won’t work for your device. You need to raise the buffer it in the actual ASIO settings for your device. Do not touch the ASIO settings of Voicemeeter whatsoever. I needed to raise my main devices ASIO buffer to 384 to get rid of any issues on the output side.

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Thank you for sharing!

[@martincook7543]

Crackling drove me crazy, thank you so much

[@FromGamingwithLove0456]

Woooooooooooooow! Okay that solved a huge issue I was having... It wasn't this snap crackle pop as described though- my audio was really, really choppy- cutting in and out in a really weird fashion. This solved it! Switched to MME and all way good.

[@Kawaii-Ripper]

Thanks this helped I had to Lower WDM to 480 and it fixed all issues , I only had the issue with new sony headset and this video helped sounds great so far

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Great to hear!

[@ReactiveSlime]

this was exactly what I needed. Just wish it didn't take you 4 minutes to get to the point

[@lensgary1597]

you deserve my love and this like

[@Slashestt]

So i have been looking all over for a fix for this, but my problem is that I decided to not use voice meeter and when I uninstalled the program, my mic was permanently quieter than it used to be. I have gone through many help centers for Windows with no luck. I have my mic set to 100% in Windows sound settings. The weird thing is that my mic sounds normal 5 minutes after my computer boots up, but then reverts to being super quiet after that. This never happened before installing voice meeter. Any help would be so nice.

[@j0ltc0lajunki3]

Recently started having crackling leading to mick cut out. will definitely give this a try. Thanks!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Hopefully this helps! If not checkout my second video where I address some other things that may help resolve this issue! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hInRi42brNSCfKc

[@kaiyo7238]

It is still crackling, LIKE ALOT. It didn't work for me at all and I've been sitting here for like three hours. someone, please help me I'm gonna go insane.

[@rubidiumstrontium6427]

have the same problem

[@AbstraKTV252]

KAZO's comment here helped me: KAZO "note: i fixed this by setting "preferred main sample rate" to "44100" or "48000"

[@FMRNathan]

I just changed one of them from KS to WDM and it worked! Try this guys

[@summerbrownderville2007]

Literally put the MME buffer down one notch, and IT WORKED!! yeah!!

[@mrvoidschannel359]

oh my god thank you so much. I literally installed Banana so that I could use other sites while having Cubase 12 booted up and you don't wanna know how many times I had to angrily go across Banana just to restart it, thank you

[@toxicgranny6718]

dude thanks, the one only not so intuitive button was that A1 with a down arrown or whatever, I just had to select my interface's audio output from there! Cheers man!!!!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Cheers!

[@michagrasza5162]

Also make sure to have your input and output in the same category f.e mme or wdm - it fixed it for me, had one in mme and other in wdm

[@tehpunisher4568]

Didn't this youtuber just say not to do that?

[@michagrasza5162]

@@tehpunisher4568 yeah and im stupid and it took me 5 minutes to figure out

[@tehpunisher4568]

@@michagrasza5162 hahahahaha much funny lul I just wanted to make sure you knew lol. Have a good day!! Stay safe!

[@michagrasza5162]

@@tehpunisher4568 sure man, thanks for that. Have a nice day!

[@iixixiboy3475]

Cracklings sound on mine didn’t fix with increased buffer but decreased it fixed mine.

[@SaultiBalldeip]

Same

[@boz-]

thank you for this comment. was reading the comment section and tried lowering it and it worked. hope you have a great day!

[@dustinclark83]

Please see my comment above. there is something more broken wrong. You can fix the issue by Assigning only 1 core to AudioDG.exe. It gets rid of "popping" in discord without increasing delay.

[@ObbiShade]

How many samples did you decrease it?

[@astrallarium]

changing the buffering fixed it! Gonna see if there's a delay in video recording since I've noticed some while hearing myself but not a huge delay

[@Reheter]

Tried many things but this fix it for me, Thank!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Great to hear!

[@markgilbelgira307]

thanks bro. It's effective. the cracking sound is already gone. :)

[@MysteryNotes]

Restarting the audio engine fixed it for me, thanks heaps!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Glad I could help!

[@heyguyslolGAMING]

According to what I've researched online WDM is considered the fastest and preferred over MME. However, I've always had issues w/ WDM regardless of buffer settings so I generally stick w/ MME which on all of my setups is clean sound and at default buffer I get zero latency but I'm also running at 48K and not 44.1. The lower the # the higher the latency.

[@Crystalcluster]

I am not sure if its just that but if I use surround it doent get fed through WDM.

[@xFrozer94]

Many thanks!! That was the fix... it´s easy but it took me forever till i found your video

[@ShiroArctic]

Another fix that I discovered thanks to this video: If both your input and output devices are running through WDM, switch one of them to MME. I have my input running through WDM and my output running through MME because for some reason my mic doesn't like running through MME.

[@zuphini]

This seemed to be the issue for me. Thanks for the tip!

[@theocharles3929]

Dude thanks a lot ! I had some weird crackling echo on my A2 channel, that I used for my headphones, and I simply changed from WDM to MME, which fixed the problem.

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Great to hear!

[@Koni42069]

To people who keep coming back to this video when adding a new device (like me): When adding a new device, set it to A1, A1 has priority and doesn't crackle like when your headphones are in A2 or A3

[@christianfreehill9954]

turns out changing the buffer from 512 to 1024 was the solution. Thanks dude!

[@Gobbatman]

Nice fix MAN!!! saved me!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Glad to hear it!

[@KruddyKamiKaze]

Another fix is sample rates gotta match on your mic and the meeter drivers.

[@literallykrys]

This is what fixed it for me. Thank you so much!

[@Newuxtreme]

Thanks for this buddy. The 2 things I have learnt is keep all hertz the same, and look into mme as opposed to wdm since it has a larger buffer size. Or even try and increase buffer size but then look out for audio sync issues!

[@SynnekoNya]

What was actually happening to me was for my listening audio my main entry was set to my Steam Streaming Speakers while it was not in use and it detected it as a primary because I disconnected one of my other ports so it ended up somehow making the audio very crackly, although if others say its your mic doing that, you can also go to your Task manager -> Details -> audiodg.exe (Right Click) -> Set Priority (High) and Set Affinity (Only CPU 2). Those fixed my current problems but I'm also certain having mixed Hz can also cause issues, it's all about digging through to find what works.

[@TheChosenJuanLopez]

This does not work for me , I have a sort of crackle/stutter with mine where it sounds like I am cutting in an out very fast, almost like talking into a fan

[@LeoKellerr]

Thanks! Helped A LOT!!

[@ROBLANE]

Great Description on the cause of this crackling. Haven't been able to figure this out for some time now.

[@TheFranswahStudio]

Not to be rude.. but changing the drivers is the first step in the fixing process because they have different buffering rates, they operate in different ways using different forms of processing making one faster or better than the other depending on the users functions. To get the solid fix you need you need to first start there. Extending the buffering time isn’t exactly “the” fix. There are many different fixes for different people.

[@drunkonsuccess779]

Oh damn, the first step fixed it, thanks.

[@KiereKikeli]

Found an alternate fix on windows 10 pro atleast, in sound control panel, in spaker properties, advanced tab, theres a tab: "allow apps to take exclusive control over this device". enabling that worked for me.

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Nice! Thanks for sharing! Going to pin this for others to see.

[@TheOutThereChannel]

have to disable that for my win10 else you get auto vol level issue

[@lordvonbagge2]

Ive had this issue for idk how long.. thank you!!!!!

[@7asibAli]

thanks man u fixed my thing

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Awesome!

[@EyeonFGC]

HOLY BALLS!!!!!! THANK YOU! I was just playing Apex and it was breaking EVERY 5 seconds! I am gonna go back in and see if this works out but at least I understand what it is now!

[@gamesturbator]

I have been getting tons of complaints in mp games (not able to understand me). I did some searching and saw on Reddit that you should match the bitrate and Hz with your actual microphone. My Fifine Mic is 1 channel 16 bit, 48,000 but I had Voicemeeter set to 2 channel 24 bit 44,100

[@tehpunisher4568]

Is there a way to check this in windows for our devices?

[@GotchaPine007]

That did resolved my issue ! thanks a lot !

[@airshom]

Thank you!! 🙏🙏 the crackling was driving me insane lol

[@juanernesto]

Thanks for the video, my mic input cracks from often, so everyday I hear my friends complaning on discord and that's when I restart VB engine

[@ProVokeGames]

Appreciate the video. You might want to pull the bass in your voice down a little bit. When you had reg voice meeter it sounded way better. Natural sound with a hint of base is fine, but your current setup for your voice I couldn't listen to for hours. It's too synthetically bassy imo

[@HowToMediaHQ]

I definitely agree with you. At the time I didn't have the best headphones to really notice how "over bassy" the sound was. I have since addressed the issues in my later videos. Great comment since it is something other people should definitely keep in mind! Thanks man!

[@AyeeHime]

Thank you, this helped me fix the choppy audio in banana. I can now start my stream! 1 less stream/cpu issue! I fixed it by routing across KM, MME, and WDM & changing my latency afters. DOPE!

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Great to hear!

[@JeffBourke]

your mic sounds BETTER without all the processing. Much nicer.

[@chinitopapi]

Thank you so much! I was struggling with my microphone this helped me. I just changed the WMD to MME. Now I can record properly thank you! 🙏🏼😁

[@HowToMediaHQ]

Glad it helped!

[@fbennett41]

Going to try this tonight, praying this works! thanks for the video tho!

[@BenzAviation]

did it work?

[@spider-sygger5712]

HOLY SHIT DUDE UR VIDEO ACTUALLY HELPED MY LIFE

[@LetsPlaywithDDae]

Do you have an example of the crackle? I have a kind of oscillating effect that ruins my recordings and I’m wondering if this will fix that.

[@knowledgelover2736]

perfect! increased wdm to 1000 and it works. I haven't seen if this has an impact on sync yet

[@LisaMiza]

ngl, your mic sounds _MUCH_ better without the clipping and eh professing you did to it :P BUt to each their own

[@RPKris]

2:20 thank me later

[@gwyn.]

Thank you 5 months later

[@LeoonYT]

thx

[@riseoftheflutes1739]

@@gwyn. gottem xd

[@3rdpoly]

Had the crackling usually come after 10-15min and then restart.. oddly it never auto restarts.. so just changed buffer and set half to MME - hope it works. Your audio does seem slightly delayed imh, noticed it from the start.

[@kckepu]

I started watching the video with the crackling sounds until the point where to fix it.... as soon as I applied that, gone! LOL... thank you heaps for the help.

[@sijcecilio]

Yoo thank you i just changed my wdm buffer to 1024 and it did the trick! Now my cheap headset mic sounds better

[@simlebrity7177]

This worked for me too, thanks!

[@dobblehh7975]

Thanks bro, this helped me = )

[@belzile10]

Dude thanks really !! I had an issue with my mic in game and discord ppl tell me I sound like a robot hope that settings will fix this. Maybe you are aware of another problem on mics?

[@Rizer2k]

I fixed mine by changing my hardware out for A1 and A2 to MME instead of WDM

[@nikhiljustin7511]

Thank you so much man

[@Rizer2k]

@@nikhiljustin7511 np, i had one problem, when i was playing a video game the audio felt delayed. u may or may not get this

[@ScottKingery]

Exactly what I did too. So far, so good.

[@Dijmac]

Perfect, fixed thankyou!

[@zornzembrano5558]

OMG..the crackling was driving me nuts!!..thanks so much!!!..although you added a bit to much commentary!..lol..hehe..the meat of the info was the buffer!!..it worked!..yay!!