Ultimate Streamer's Guide: Mastering Voicemeeter Potato (Discord, OBS and StreamDeck)

[@NavyTheNerd]

If you don't want to miss any future content, don't forget to like and subscribe! What is your favourite Voicemeeter feature?

[@KeniWilliams]

Sub'd!!!

[@thinktank2344]

Hi, great video. I am trying to figure out one aspect, I have few USB microphones connected to laptop and I have one physical Audio Mixer in the hall. The voice output cable from laptop connected to physical mixer. I have voicemeeter Banana, when I choose the A1 output selecting "WDM headphone" so the sound go to mixer, there is no sound coming. When I choose MME headphone then the sound coming but with some sound feedback (echo type). Any idea how to fix this?

[@CecilMerrell]

For those watching now, it looks like the voicemeter outputs are now individually labeled a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, b1, b2, b3 in system sound settings. Per the example shown in this video, the dedicated mic channel would now be B1, and the Mixed Mic/Audio for obs would be b2.

[@NavyTheNerd]

You are right, in new releases you can enable the VAIO Extension through Menu --> VAIO Extension License. This way you don't need to install additional cables and can use the shipped virtual interfaces directly as input and output on the physical channels in voicemeeter.

[@RifterArchive]

Thank you. I was so confused

[@AngelDiegoMerlo]

You were the only one that deals with windows communications settings. I couldn't find this info even in Voicemeeter manual. And I have more than 35 years dealing with audio professional a TVE and ESPN. You were the only person that solves unwanted feedback in complex routing situation. **** The key was in the communication windows settings*** All professional user must view this tutorial. Thank you very much!!!

[@ronlee2606]

This is the best video on using voicemeter that is out there. I wanted to get my mic,guitar,KZbin sound and DAW sound all into voicemeter then into OBS. It's been a struggle but using the information provided by this video I was able to accomplish this today. Thank you so much!

[@AltemirMC]

I had never seen a video with so much information, neither in quantity nor in quality of topics. I am very grateful to you for sharing your knowledge.

[@johanneswohler5476]

As of May 31, 2024, under Windows 10/11 (64-bit), VoiceMeeter now installs a new single virtual audio driver offering 8x virtual audio I/O. The three regular virtual outputs are now displayed with the BUS Name, so you will need to reselect the recording device in all your applications that previously used it. From OLD to NEW: new vaio extension - the outputs are: VoiceMeeter Out A1 through A5. For the old VAIO drivers, the new mappings are as follows: VoiceMeeter Output > VoiceMeeter Out B1, VoiceMeeter Aux Output > VoiceMeeter Out B2, and VoiceMeeter VAIO3 Output = VoiceMeeter Out B3. Go to your PC's Control Panel, click on Hardware and Sound, then click on Sound, and review or change your selections. :)

[@M4v3r1ckRJ]

Saying thank you is not nearly enough; your video is hands down the best I've seen on KZbin about potatoes. Your channel deserves to have at least 1 million subscribers, and I hope my subscription helps on that journey!

[@NavyTheNerd]

Thank you!

[@Nakxin]

More like 1 BILLION This man has the greatest video on Voicemeeter Potato Fr!

[@calebyatess]

Finally a detailed video and explanation, not some quick setup guide but actually explaining each tool and button! THANKS!

[@CodaCarter]

I just wanted to say thank you so much for this! I love how you explained why you did each action instead of just saying "do this then do this" like most other tutorials out there. I've been using banana, and decided to switch over to potato and I feel way more comfortable with my audio setup now then what I've been using for the past year. You are a literal life saver!!!!

[@nocosimfarmer]

I though I had voicemeeter all figured out until the livestream I had last night. I had a core misunderstanding of how the routing of the virtual interfaces in VMP worked and most of other how to's I have found only scratched the surface on how it worked. Thank you for putting together such a detailed tutorial on how to set up and route audio through VMP. Liked and subscribed!

[@nocosimfarmer]

I am trying to feed as many separate audio channels into OBS to capture them as individual audio tracks. Does everything have to go through the virtual outputs or can I map those sources (assigned to various virtual cables) directly to separate sources in OBS? Thanks!

[@StenIsaksson]

Best video about Voicemeeter Potato I've seen so far. If you have a dedicated streaming PC you can send the audio to it over the network with the VBAN feature. Both PC's need to have Voicemeeter installed of course.

[@NavyTheNerd]

Yes of course VBAN is a great feature. I don't have a dual pc setup or other need for it, but for sure that's the one topic I'm missing in my tutorial.

[@FreethinkersRebellionJeffD]

I have been streaming for a while now and use different tech to host the streams. The newest locations were only allowing 1 input for microphone when I needed to bring in my PC audio as well. And now I need to bring in an external computer (Xbox) as well. The routing tutorials never really explained HOW IT WORKS. So, I tried copying several people's pathways, but things kept failing. No one had the same setup as me. Rodecaster pro, PC, Xbox. This tutorial broke it down like I didn't already know everything and that is exactly what I needed. Last night I punished my teammate with reverb and gamesounds so the stream could hear him. And somehow, the stream lost my browser audio. It was beyond frustrating. Anyway. I have a show today and everything should be up a running thanks to this video. Much appreciated for the instruction and detal.

[@Jaytama]

I'm a audiophile and this made everything 1000% much better. Love the video!

[@zeub327]

this video is underrated i just got voicemeeter and i was absolutely lost

[@ApexDailyLegends]

This is by far the detailed and easy to understand voicemeeter video ive seen. Yes it is a bit long, but i been using VM potato for almost a year and still confuses me. after this vod i totally understand. u earned a sub

[@KeniWilliams]

I really think that this is super uuuuuuber important and should be endorsed by VA! I have replayed the video several times to study and grasp the concepts. Your speaking pace, @NavyTheNerd, is excellent and allows listeners like me to comprehend the information. Massive thank you dude!

[@Godspeed117]

OMGosh! I've used Potato for years and I do not have access to most of the audio processing effects that you covered! I must have to download the latest version. This is amazing!

[@abrandonmaxwell]

I've been trying to figure this out for like, a year. Thank you so much. You helped me understand this on a way different level.

[@NavyTheNerd]

Great to hear!

[@oceanicpit]

This is the best tutorial on YT, thank you Sir. You covered exactly everything what intermediate streamer needs!

[@NavyTheNerd]

Thank you!

[@weaya47]

You are sensei in voicemeeter. ❤❤. Excellent job. Nobody has touched these areas.

[@draculapkt1906]

WOW, this is best Voicemeter guide I've come across. Thank you for this!!!

[@Krozgames]

Eu usei meu voicemeeter errado a vida toda, cara você foi sensacional nas explicações, muito detalhista e bem especifico, abriu minha mente para este programa serei eternamente grato parabéns pelo conteúdo.

[@CirTap]

This was perfect ! Finally a full explainer of VB-Audio's confusing (to me) original documentation. 👍 I don't use any of the apps you mentioned, but I was now able to implement this for my general music production setup, as long as I only need the stereo master output of each app. Especially the microphone setup and the connection between the B-buses and the VAIO/AUX channel strips were always a mystery to me. I run several dedicated ASIO only apps like Cubase, Wavelab and standalone VST instruments apps like DecentSampler, Halion, Groove Agent, Kontakt etc. at the same time where EACH app can offer dozens of stereo ASIO only in- and output channels themself (i.e. for each individual drum sound or instrument). Up until now I had to record track one after the other because of the cometing accesss to the ASIO interface and channels. Some of the standalone VSTi can be simultaneously played live via connected MIDI keyboards or drum pads -- the MIDI routing to each app is pretty straightforward. But there might be additional audio comming from a guitar and XLR mic connected to the audio interface - also an ASIO device. As for the VSTi apps I want to (potentially) route all 16 stereo output channels (= instruments) of the standalone Halion into separate tracks in WaveLab. As VSTi plugins they all work fine inside Cubase or other DAWs, but the routing of the standalone apps is very limited when attempting to do a multitrack recording in WaveLab due to the lack of ASIO "devices" and channels.

[@CirTap]

If this is all possible with "VB Matrix" or even "VoiceMeeter" then I'm good to got, otherwise I may need somebody to explain to me the relevance of VB-Audio's "HiFi-Cable / ASIO Bridge" :-) The little documentation I found is utterly confusion and I can't get it to work -- or it eventually blocks all other Windows audio. Is this "HiFi-Cable/Bridge" even of any help or required if I already use "VB Matrix" and/or "VoiceMeeter"? The "HiFi-Cable / ASIO Bridge" is a couple if years old already and it appears somewhat of an early approach of a generic multichannel in/out ASIO driver. "VB Matrix" or even "VoiceMeeter" provide multi channel ASIO drivers and basically superseeded that, if I'm not mistaken? ... and then there is VBAN which sounds interesting with its network MIDI support.

[@sweatington8423]

This tutorial is amazing man, awesome work.

[@hokma3106]

This guide is just a hidden gem, so helpfull

[@imcubanbe3841]

You good sir are a CHAMP! Thanks for this detailed video, nice slow and simple. Thank you very much.

[@macbuton]

thanks so much.. it really sorted alot of route issues which is so confusing for noobs like me ... respect the nerd out detalis aswell :)

[@eboofi]

goat of the year

[@russellwatkinson]

Thank you for an excellent tutorial, I watched all the way through and learned a lot.

[@Jashxiii]

Hat off to you Sir. Your video explains in the simple way possible this complicated routing program. You have clarified so many questions I DIDN'T know I even HAD about this program. Thank you for your hard work putting this video together. Like M4v3r1ckRJ said below, your channel deserves a million subscribers. Again Thank you.

[@yehudahakhamzadeh5097]

you made usch a good vid can you explain the eq and the other stuff like the denoiser and the reverb section and other things pls

[@albiss1164]

Thanks a lot for deciphering this great but occult piece of software 🙏🙂 Best video on the subject and a MasterClass !!!

[@endergamer_hun]

This was really helpful! You covered everything I needed.

[@NavyTheNerd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Radishboy]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!

[@Vincent_McFly]

Te agradezco por esta enorme guía, fue muy completa e instructiva. En un futuro tengo pensado hacer una guía similar en español.

[@VR0T]

This guide is perfect, best fucking guide on youtube you deserve so many more subs, keep doing what you're doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yehudahakhamzadeh5097]

there is a problem with the auto ducking macro because if you speak then stop and then quickly speak before the 1000 ms are up it will lower again. Should i just put the 1000 ms down to 1 ms? Also is there a way to set it to auto duck bus b1 in strip 6?

[@khrisnaadi9766]

Thank you so much for your great and detail explanation. Looking forward for another cool contents. Please explain how to fix troubleshooting such as audio stuttering and delay

[@sanewave]

Been using VM for years, wish i had this video years ago.

[@TheNorthernNerd]

Very informative. Thanks man

[@matheundmehr...8833]

Thanx a lot. Very well explained. Helped me a lot!

[@NavyTheNerd]

You are welcome!

[@ldee247]

The best ever clearly well explained in greater depth step by step video guide on voice meeter potato without any rush. I just had to subscribe and like, thanks for making this tutorial thumbs up to your video channel. I went ahead and purchased VB-Audio A+B and want to know if possible to use VB-Audio A on the fourth hardware Input channel specifically for my Action! Mirrillis screen recording software and route discord audio through it as well so that when I'm screen recording my gameplay with friends I can also record our voices into the video?

[@NavyTheNerd]

I don't know that software but that should be possible.

[@russellwatkinson]

What an excellent tutorial. Thank you. I've been running Voicemeeter for sometime and not really understanding some of the advanced features and setup. This has been a great help. Do you have issues with distorted audio sometimes though? Have you managed to fix that problem?

[@NavyTheNerd]

Thanks a lot! Distorted and robotic audio typically gets fixed by using 48khz sample rate on all audio devices.

[@WhyEden_]

Great guide I just don't understand one thing, how does any of what we set in VM translate to OBS? Do I have to add certain sources or leave it default? If I want to separate my discord audio from OBS when recording (I don't stream) and I suppose if I want to separate my discord mic from OBS then I'd have to set up an hotkey to mute.

[@JayTooCrxzy]

Bro I love you thank you so much for this vid, helped me and my boy moose out a lot. Earned a Sub 💯💯

[@robg182]

Thanyou for this. Incredibly detailed

[@NavyTheNerd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robg182]

@@NavyTheNerd Helpful is an understatement, I was using VM completely wrong. Now I have it working perfectly thanks to your guide.

[@SilverIsPro]

One of the greatest tutorial videos I've seen in a long time! Super easy to follow and understand. One thing that left me confused is the denoiser knob. I don't seem to have that option in my instance of VM Potato. Any reason that might be?

[@NavyTheNerd]

The only reason I could think of why you haven't got the denoiser knob in Potato is, that you aren't on the latest version of Voicemeeter Potato.

[@captbullship]

This is one of the best VM videos I've seen. I was using Potato so wrong for the last few years. Thank you! Now, quick question : I see HARDWARE input channels you have : COMP - GATE - DENOISER .. and also 2 PRG buttons and have access to the feature of the compressor for example by right clicking on it. I don't have any of those in Potato. Is it because you're using ASIO and i'm using WDM ? Thanks again!

[@captbullship]

*UPDATE* : Even though I had the latest version for VMP .. it seems the GUI wasn't showing the options / features I stated above. Re-installed VMP .. rebooted .. and voila! Hope this helps someone else!

[@NavyTheNerd]

glad you could fix the problem

[@jaimesastre7157]

Hey, best guide I've seen. Congratulations, you explain it great and everything was understood. I wanted to ask you about EQ, compression and gate. You comment that there are good videos out there, but I haven't found anything interesting that works with Voicemeeter Potato and these options (mostly focused on the microphone). Do you have any video that you could recommend on this topic? Thanks for your time, very nice work!

[@NavyTheNerd]

basically every tutorial should work. there is nothing special about using the voicemeeter compressor and eq. you just need to learn the basics of what the ratio, attack time and release time do and for the eq you need to understand what a eq does. In the end you need to identify what you want to change in your audio recordings. e.g. if you think your lacking presence then you need to boost higher frequencies a little, but in the end its testing, understanding and a lot of experience of how different frequencies influence sound.

[@potatoe22266]

Thank you for the guide! I have a question, though. Is there a way for my keyboard's or headset's volume wheel/knob to control the volume without having to do it through VM?

[@rodriguen]

Man this is so great !

[@Fieldy6984]

Hey @NavyTheNerd How do you get the levels on the buttons like you have them @1:12:25 of the video? Thanks in advance, Great video btw!

[@NavyTheNerd]

You can use field "Title Value" from the Advanced Toggle for that. Just set that to the parameter you wanna query from voicemeeter and it will be used as the button title, e.g. "strip[0].gain" will display the current gain as the title.

[@Fieldy6984]

@@NavyTheNerd Thankyou

[@AkalyptosUC]

I have setup everything right and works perffect but whenn i share screen to my friends if i do not disable mi cable a and cable b (cable a send discord to my obs cable b send music to stream) my friends listen double time their voice or music AND that only when i share screen

[@NavyTheNerd]

If you have problems with the setup you could also join the VB-Audio Discord. There are many great people which can help you resolve your problems.

[@OseTaVoix]

Great job Thanks

[@eddiesaturn29]

How do you do this in new windows? The sound settings interface does not look like this anymore

[@NavyTheNerd]

You can still access the old sound settings through the old control panel or in the new sound settings scroll down and click "more sound settings".

[@tatarutaru1531]

Hi, would you pls tell me if is the Voicemeeter Audio 8x8 Matrix can only control one bus at on time?

[@caseywoelfle7042]

My VM-streamer is only showing A1 for me. for my sliders. Does not show any other output.

[@NavyTheNerd]

they only show up if you give them a custom name in voicemeeter

[@caseywoelfle7042]

@@NavyTheNerd I would double check when I get home, pretty confident I assigned all them a custom name though. Will provide imgur links. Thank you for the response.

[@sweetbounce2141]

I have an issue that my discord sound goes 2x into OBS both audio tracks record discord sound? anyone know how to fix this

[@NavyTheNerd]

That is hard to solve from just your descirption. But i suggest joining the VB-Audio Discord, there are many people that can help you solve your problems and you are able to share screenshots of your setup.

[@jovameister7891]

Thank you very much for your help, your video has been very helpful to me but I think I still have a question: why do certain applications like Discord appear repeatedly in the system, music and communications (virtual inputs) section? I can't catch it. I would also like to understand how to connect this configuration to Adobe Audition to use it in multitrack mode and have my microphone and the Discord audio (the audio of my mates) separately (different tracks) Thanks in advance

[@NavyTheNerd]

since most daws don't allow you to connect more than one audio device i recommend you to use a virtual asio device with multiple channels where you can route different applications to different audio channels of the same asio device. for this purpose i recommend you to check out my vb audio matrix video

[@JoshKaufmanstuff]

Great Video! What telestration app are you using to draw on the screen?

[@NavyTheNerd]

It’s just a screenshot inside of ms whiteboard

[@necipfazilaskar]

Thank you 🙏

[@stykytte]

Clicks on Audio setup guide. Can't hear the guy in the video. So bassy it's hard to understand in some parts. Wonder if this is the guy to be listening to. Actually the guide itself is great. I needed a refresher after being away from content creation for almost a year and the 48khz tip was an instant "ohhhh of course!" moment.

[@NavyTheNerd]

Thanks for the feedback. I will look into dialing back bass in further releases.

[@benjamiingabriel]

For some reason Voicemeeter output doesnt work for me idk why

[@ajitjalady]

How to control balance? I want only left on one and right on another device

[@WGVC]

Hi Navy, I just came across your tutorial on Voice-meter Banana and I definitely need to talk to you. I have some questions please….

[@va02gaming]

Just noticed you have the EQ button on every channel, I don’t have this in banana is this exclusive to potato?

[@NavyTheNerd]

Yes, you only have that option in Potato. The same with the fine tuning for the Gate and Compressor, you only get those advanced options with Potato.

[@va02gaming]

@@NavyTheNerd thank you that makes sense, do you think the tuning for gate is worth the time of setting it all up or is the gains minimal

[@NavyTheNerd]

@@va02gaming absolutely. It's not that complicated, once you understand how a gate and compressor works, but the difference it can make to manually dial in the right threshold, attack, hold and release time is huge.

[@va02gaming]

@@NavyTheNerd thank you, I know you cover it in this video but do you have or could you do a extensive video on it sometime when and if you get spare time It would honestly be awesome 🙏 I am kind of new to audio/microphone stuff so your video is really helpful again thank you

[@NavyTheNerd]

@@va02gaming I'm by no means an expert in audio processing, but I will see if I can do a follow up video, to cover audio processing especially within Voicemeeter.

[@d27production]

i suggest you to using condenser mic..

[@FhargaZ]

Every time i finally have Voicemeter perfectly like i wanted it, somehow, windows update or something similar finds the way to destroy it 😓🤬 Now the macrobuttons sample that i send by discord sound bad in Discord but perfectly fine in the board, at least i fixed the rest.

[@SteliosPap-nd2cy]

Please my friend,you are the best,i m having problems with tik tok studio live. Please make a video about the routing to tik tok studio live settings. When i have guests at windows they hear their voices double.Please if someone has set it up with tik tok live audio settings help Me❤

[@GuyLeClaude]

👌

[@blackbrot]

Fantastic guide. Thank you very much!

[@ShiokPlays]

Thanks so much for this guide! Issuing a lot of problem with my new HyperX Quadcast S : (

[@NavyTheNerd]

So, did it solve the problems you had with Voicemeeter?

[@ShiokPlays]

@@NavyTheNerd almost done I think, thanks, I just need to finish a complete EQ in voicemeeter side, I combined with some VST in the OBS side too, but still have some background noise and my voice it's too shiny, but no videos of EQ in the voicemeeter side useful yet

[@ShiokPlays]

@@NavyTheNerd I am missing a good and detailed EQ settings video on the voicemeeter side, mic of course, but also the rest Outputs like B1,B2, B3 etc anyway, thanks a lot for you works, I have same setup as you, the best in my opinion, thanks so much!

[@NavyTheNerd]

keep in mind, you always need to record the cleanest audio you can possibly get, because it's very hard to fix bad audio in post. especially if it needs to be done in real-time due to live streaming. so if you have a very noisy environment, you won't get rid of that noise without sacrificing audio quality. with a compressor you even will increase your noise floor. but if you need heavy noise removal you can try something like nvidia broadcast noise removal (if you have a nvidia gpu).

[@ShiokPlays]

@@NavyTheNerd I think I have in my MSI gaming laptop, but not using nothing more than the encoder in the OBS. About compressor noise reduction in the OBS part, I have not success yet and disconnect it, just left the VST filter EQ in the OBS side. Notice better results applying in the Voicemeeter side, more good quality, I copy your settings, but adjust a few as have a condensed mic HyperX Quadcast S, a bad mic by the way 😔, but in your video the EQ part only show the A channel, not sure if need to EQ the B too, but think in the correct path using the Voicemeeter in this case using this microphone