RODECaster Pro 2 - ULTIMATE Dual PC Streaming/Gaming Setup!

Hey boys and girls out there in Streamerland, Ashy here with the Ultimate Dual PC Roadcaster Pro 2 Setup that gives you complete control over your stream audio mix with the simplest OBS or Streamlabs audio configuration. I am going to show you how you can configure the Roadcaster Pro 2 so that you will have direct physical fader control over your six most important audio sources and be able to hear exactly what your mix sounds like to your viewers. Now a couple of notes. Number one I strongly re

commend as a prerequisite that you watch my first Dual PC video which goes over more of the Roadcaster Pro 2 basics as well as some important distinctions including the default out-of-the-box audio routing and what mix minus is. That video will get you up and running with a very simple setup and a solid understanding of the Roadcaster Pro 2. Optionally you can also watch part 2 for detailed OBS configuration instructions if you need them. Number two this configuration will not work with the Road

caster Duo. I'm sorry it just doesn't have enough inputs. However watching this video if you have a Duo may help you understand more about what you can do with that device. Now if just knowing that this video will not work with the Duo just saved you 20 minutes of your time hey I think I deserve a like and subscribe for that don't you? Alright if you already watched the first video or if you already have a solid understanding of using the Roadcaster Pro 2 in a Dual PC setup then let's get starte

d. Now in my first Dual PC setup video I tried to keep everything on the Roadcaster as simple as possible to get up and running super fast and with no extra cables needed. In this video it's going to be a bit more complicated and require some extra cabling to give us the inputs into the Roadcaster so that we can assign them to a fader and control them out to your stream mix. The Roadcaster Pro 2 has a lot of physical and logical inputs and we are going to use pretty much all of them. So get read

y. Okay here's the diagram of what we're going to put together and just like the first video this assumes that the only thing we have running on the game PC is the game and I'm going to use Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as our test case because it has a primary sound output it has a option for a chat output and a different chat input obviously. Alright so if you're running a different mix of apps on your gaming and streaming PCs take what you see in this video and adjust accordingly. Now to pull

this off as I mentioned we're going to need a couple of extra cables you just need a couple of ground loop isolators which are optional but I do recommend them you're going to need a 1 8th to 1 quarter TRS stereo cable and a 1 8th to 1 quarter mono cable. Now here is an Amazon shopping cart with everything in it and even the ground loop isolators are optional so if you wanted to exclude the ground loop isolators and save yourself 20 bucks you can do this for what I don't know 17 18 bucks? 15 bu

cks little man put that shit in my hand if that money doesn't show then you owe me owe me oh my jungle love yeah oh we oh we oh Alright, let's just talk through the physical pieces of this really quickly. We're going to plug USB 1 from the RODECaster into our streaming PC. We're going to plug USB 2 into our gaming PC. For the line out connection from the streaming PC, we're going to connect first the ground loop isolator to the line out port on the PC, which is usually green in color, which is w

hy I have this green. And then we're going to connect our 1 eighth TRS stereo to one quarter inch stereo cable to the ground loop isolator. And then we're going to plug these two ends into inputs 2 and 3 into the RODECaster. You're going to put the red one on the left and the black one on the right if you're looking at it from the top. The gaming PC for the line out connection, which again, usually green, same deal. You're going to plug the ground loop isolator into line out connection, and then

you're going to connect the 1 eighth stereo to one quarter inch mono cable to the ground loop isolator and then into input number 4 on the RODECaster Pro 2. And if you have speakers, you'll have these plugged in. Obviously, if you have headphones, you have those plugged in. Now, before we get into the logical diagram, let's just go ahead and set up our PC inputs and outputs. On our streaming PC, we want to make sure that we have our system sound output selected as line out. And for input, we wa

nt to make sure we have RODECaster Pro 2 chat selected as our microphone. On our gaming PC, we want our main output to be the RODECaster Pro 2 secondary. And our input is going to be the desktop microphone RODECaster Pro 2 secondary. Okay, with that set up, now we can take a look at what our logical configuration is going to be. Here is our logical diagram. I have overlaid with colors. You can even almost IKEA this if you didn't listen to the rest of this video. You might even have enough inform

ation here to just look at the pictures and configure things, but we'll go through this. Let's take a look first at our RODECaster. We'll zoom in here. And here are the faders that we're going to set up. On our first fader is going to be our microphone. The next fader is going to be system alerts coming from our streaming PC, music coming from our streaming PC on fader 3. Fader 4 moves to our gaming PC. That's going to be our game audio coming in. Fader 5 is going to be our Discord audio, even t

hough that's on the streaming PC. We're going to have that over here. And then our game chat is on our final physical fader. Again, game chat coming from our game PC. You can move the faders around wherever you like. I would recommend following along through this video and setting them up like this, and then simply dragging and dropping them to where you want them to be after we're done. So let's look at the rest of the diagram here. If we look at our streaming PC, how we're going to route all t

his audio. Our system alerts, the main desktop audio we're going to be sending to our line out connection. That's going to be coming into the RODECaster over inputs 2 and 3 as a stereo input. I'll show you how to combine those into a stereo input. Our music is going to come out of the streaming PC and into the RODECaster Pro 2 main stereo input. The main mix from the RODECaster going into OBS is going to be coming over RODECaster Pro 2 main stereo. Our microphone coming in is going to be coming

from RODECaster Pro 2 chat to OBS. The same chat is going to be feeding our Discord microphone in. And then Discord out is going to be coming back over RODECaster Pro 2 chat into the RODECaster Pro 2. Switching to the gaming PC, our game chat is going to be coming out of our gaming PC over the line out port and feeding into input number 4 as a line in. That's going to be a mono signal. We don't need a stereo signal for game chat. Our game audio is going to be coming out over the RODECaster Pro 2

secondary channel. And then game chat coming in will be coming in over the Pro 2 secondary. All right, let's jump into the road central application and get this bad boy configured up. But hey, before we get to the rest of the video, here is a quick public service announcement to please, please subscribe to the channel and please like this video. It really does help the channel and keeps me motivated to bring you more and better content. Also, please consider joining as a member to unlock perks

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it out. Okay, now that's out of the way back to the video. All right, we are ready to configure our roadcaster pro two. We've got a road central app up. I have our diagram up here so we can refer back to it so we know what we're doing. And I've got inset in here is an image of the roadcaster because you can do all this on the roadcaster itself. You don't need to use the app. Yep, just makes it a little easier. But one thing that isn't easy is resetting this to default. So I'm going to perform w

ith no net here. So I'm going to go with a brand new default configuration. So we can start from scratch just as if you were. Okay, so I'm not going to export my current show because I've already done that. So we'll skip that. And we're just going to start with the default to PC ultimate icon. Ready to go. And my microphone probably changed because by default, it doesn't have my mic set up. So let's fix my mic real quick. We're just going to go through this step by step. So let's go to audio. Wh

en I configure my mic, but when I did that, I'm sure you can hear my voice just sounded a lot better. It's got some really good default processing for this microphone. Alright, so that's done. Alright, so we've got microphone one done. What's our next one? Input two is going to be a line input. In fact, all of our other microphones, let me close this. So I only have one microphone that's going to be here and input one, all of our other microphones are going to be line inputs, right? So we're goi

ng to change all these to line inputs. So if we just go back here, and we scroll over to the left here, we're going to change that to a line in, we're going to go over here to the right one more, we're going to input number three line in. And input number four is line in. I'm not going to mess with the levels right now, you can tweak that as you need, depending on your audio source. Alright, so those are line inputs done. Bluetooth, we don't need to change anything with Bluetooth, our smart pads

don't need to change anything there. Our USB one automatically set at minus 12 dB, we'll just leave that the way it is. Same for USB one chat, and USB two as well is set to minus 12 dB. So we'll just leave that as it is. Alright, so that is done on that screen. So what we want to do now is, if we look at our diagram, again, we have inputs two and three that are going to be a stereo input. And then you have input four, which is aligned just a regular mono input. Okay, so let's set that up to a R

ODECaster. And what we want to do is we have two and three, we have the inputs, okay, and what we want to do is make these a stereo pair, like I said. So all we have to do to do that is real simple down here on this screen. If you see this little link between two and three, you can make any any pair of these a stereo pair, just by linking them together. And we want to do that with two and three. So we're going to click this little guy here, reassign it. And now we have a stereo pair for inputs t

wo and three. And if you look at the RODECaster, I'll zoom this in, you can see that it now sees that as a on this fader, that's inputs two and three in a stereo pair configuration. Okay, so that's how we do that. Alright, back to our RODECaster app, we have our microphone on fader one, fader two is going to be our system alerts. And that's green. So let's just go ahead and change that color right now. On fader three, we have our music, which is yellow, which is going to be coming in on our USB

one. Okay, so we're going to drag USB one over here. And we're going to change his color to yellow. Okay, got that. And then we have the next fader, fader number four is going to be our game audio, which is blue, which is going to be coming in on our USB two, we're going to slide that over here. And we're going to change that color to what is that the dark blue, that's the light blue, so we do light blue on that guy. And then what's next is we're going to have our discord audio, which is our cha

t channel. So we're going to drag that over here. And we're going to change this color to the dark blue. And then our last one is going to be our game chat, which is whatever color that is, which we're going to have on input number four. And I guess that color is like orange, orange ish. Okay, so we've got those and then the rest of these, you know, we can just put them wherever we want. And the colors don't really matter because they don't, you know, we don't have a fader associated with them.

All right, there we go. That's the basic setup we have all of our inputs accounted for. We have them in the right places, according to our faders. And now all we need to do is go and do our routing. So let's go into device configuration. Let's then look at our outputs for headphones. I have a Sennheiser HD 800s, which are low sensitivity. So I'm going to click on low sensitivity for those. I also have another pair of headphones, which are IEM. So I'll just go ahead and set those as high sensitiv

ity. And the rest will just you can leave defaults, but I'll have so much low sensitivity just for the heck of it. All right, headphones are done. Monitor. So monitor those are for my speakers. We want to do auto mute output. I don't I leave those all these off. So I turn that off. I'll skip routing. We're gonna do that last listen. It's gonna be a post fader listen, multi track. We do not want multi track and processing. We don't need to mess with any of that. All right, routing the fun stuff.

All right, so if you've watched my videos before, I've explained to you what routing is. You know how this works. If you haven't seen them before very quickly. These are your outputs on the top. Your inputs are on the bottom. By default, you're getting everything that's coming in is going out. Okay, you need to understand that everything everywhere all at once, just like the movie. And that's what's happening. So all these are getting all these outputs are getting all the inputs and everything s

ounds like a mess. If you do it this way to begin with, and you have all these audio sources just going everywhere. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna use custom for all of these. Now, I'll very quickly explain the concept of mix minus. If you didn't get it from the other videos, mix minus basically doesn't allow what comes into the same input to go back out the same input. It keeps echo from happening in some cases where it might happen. So what that looks like in practice, mix minus. If we

have main mix, okay, again, everything everywhere all at once. What comes in Bluetooth is getting sent right back out Bluetooth. So if you have like a telephone call, for example, the person is going to hear themselves back through their when they're speaking, right? So they're going to hear themselves mix minus basically says we're not going to send right back out the same interface what we got in it. Okay, and the custom tab, what that looks like, what makes minus looks like for Bluetooth woul

d be this, we would just turn the Bluetooth off. Now we that is effectively mix minus. It is the same thing for USB one. If I wanted to implement mix minus on USB one, I would just do this. Now I don't have the potential for echo. Now we don't want to do that because we're using a special config, we're going to take what comes in USB one and send it right back out USB one because it's different, the input and output on USB one is going to be different. So that sounds confusing right now. But you

want to have this turned on in a couple of unique situations, including the one we're going to set up. All right, that's mixed minus. All right, so let's route all of our stuff. So what do we want to hear in our headphones? And I'm going to refer back to our diagram probably a couple times here. In our headphones, we want to hear pretty much everything, right? I mean, you want to hear your whole mix. Now the only exception of that is probably going to be your microphone, which is okay when you

want to hear your voice from time to time to see how you sound. But in most cases, you're just going to turn your microphone off so you don't hear that in your headphones. So we'll do that. Same with the other headphones, we're just going to set those up exactly the same way. Okay, done deal. Speakers, if you have speakers attached to your system, again, you probably don't want the microphone going out because if you have your speakers turned up loud and you're talking in your mic, you're going

to hear that right out of the speakers right back in your mic, and you're definitely going to get feedback. So we're going to turn that off. Other than that, everything else we want to hear in our speakers. In many cases, we're not using recording, so I'm not going to spend any more time on recording. Okay, Bluetooth. We kind of already talked about Bluetooth, what we're going to do for Bluetooth. In case you decide to use it with a phone call or whatever, what we're going to do is just make sur

e that our microphone is going out Bluetooth. And we're going to make sure that nothing else does because if we're having a phone call with someone, we don't want any game audio or music or other things going out to our phone call. So we're just going to get rid of all that, get rid of all those. And then the only thing we have then going out to Bluetooth is going to be our microphone. And if we want to do some sound effects, smart pads, send some people some funny things and our phone calls, we

can do that. Okay, so Bluetooth then is done. All right, USB one. And we're going to go right to the custom tab. Now what do we want to send out USB one? Well, what is USB one? If we look at our diagram, USB one is the main connection from the road caster to the PC. And what's going out USB one is that little red line out to our main mech. So USB one is our main mechs going out to OBS or Streamlabs, whatever your streaming software is. Okay, so we want pretty much everything going out there exc

ept for our microphone, because we're going to have our microphone as a separate input into OBS, we're only going to have two inputs and OBS in this configuration. One is going to be the main mechs, which is going to be everything except the microphone and our sound effects, which we're going to have over a separate voice channel. You don't have to do it that way. I do it that way because I like to record my voice channel on a separate audio track. So I can have that separate from any game audio

and things like that. So you don't have to do it that way. But that's how we're going to do it. So we are going to disable the microphone. What is coming in on input two and three, that is our desktop, our OBS alerts or Streamlabs alerts, that is the output from those applications are coming into line out and we want to send those right back out to USB one to the mix to OBS. So we want that. Do we want what's coming in on USB one to go out USB one? And in this case, I said that was most cases a

mix minus issue. In this case, we want it because that is our music. So we're having our music come in USB one, and we're going to send that out to our stream over USB one USB to do. We want that to come in. Yes, that is our game audio. So we definitely want our game audio. And do we want our chat? We're going to uncheck that we're going to handle it. We're going to bring our chat in separately, as you can see into OBS as the separate chat or microphone input. So we disable that one. Whoops. Ok

ay, that's a mistake. We definitely want our chat going out to USB one as many times as I've worked with this device. I still make mistakes sometimes. So we want to make sure we enable this so that our main mix can hear our discord chat. Okay, sorry about that. Here we go. Do we want our game chat to come in and go out? Yes, we do. That's on input four. And then our smart pads and our Bluetooth. Do we want those to go to our stream? I handle my smart pads to go over the voice channel. That's how

I set mine up. So I'm going to disable that you don't have to. And then Bluetooth. If you're having a phone call that you want to transmit out to your stream, or if you have, you know, maybe you have a different device. I mean, there could be reasons when you have a Bluetooth device connected that you want to stream out to your main mix. In that case, you enable that. Okay. If not, just go ahead and disable it. All right, USB one is done. All right, what do we want to send out to our chat chann

el? We want our microphone to go over chat. We don't want our system alerts. We don't want our music to go over the chat channel. We don't want our game audio to go over the chat channel. And then what is coming in into chat? Do we want to send that out? Chat? Well, in our case, we do not because we have our discord also coming in over this chat channel. So this is discord that we're hearing. So our buddies that we're talking to in discord are coming in on this. We don't want to send that right

back out our chat channel because it's going to go right back out to them. So we don't want to do that. So we're going to disable that. We don't want this. And we don't want probably don't want Bluetooth. How I like to do things. I like to have my microphone and my sound effects go over that separate chat channel. So it records on a separate track in OBS or stream labs. Okay, so there's our chat channel. Almost done. Lastly, USB to custom. Really, the only thing we want to go out over USB to is

going to be our microphone and if sound effects, if we want our sound effects to go into game chat, we don't want our buddies on discord to go over game chat, right? Maybe you do. If you do, then that case, you can enable the whole chat channel, but you probably don't. So going out to game chat, we're just going to have a microphone. We don't want any other audio to go back out to game chat. And then again, we'll leave our smart pads in case you want to send some funny things over game chat, sou

nd effects, music, things like that. And Bluetooth will disable. So that is all the routing. So our headphones are getting pretty much everything. Our speaker is getting everything record. Don't really care too much about because we're not using it. Bluetooth is just our Bluetooth conversation. Our USB one is getting our system, our music, our game audio and our game chat. And then our chat channel. Again, just our microphone and our sound effects are going out chat. And same for USB to which is

our way of getting game chat into the game. Again, microphone and our sound effects. And that is routing. So now the proof is in the pudding. Let's see if it all works. First, we're going to go into our OBS configuration. Let's make sure we have our audio sources set up right there. I'm not hiding anything. So this is everything I have in the system. Okay, so you're obviously hearing my mic. We have that set up. If we look at the properties for that. We have our mic set up as the microphone, RO

DECaster Pro 2 chat. Do not do microphone RODECaster Pro 2 main stereo, okay? RODECaster Pro 2 chat. You'll be duplicating your audio if you do that because this is our main mix. This is our microphone channel. This is our main mix channel. Your microphone is microphone RODECaster Pro 2 chat. Got it. Okay, I added another source. This is an audio input source, not an audio output source. Sometimes people get that confused. This is an audio input source. If we're going to add this from scratch, a

nd we added a new source, it would be an audio input capture, not audio output capture. Audio input capture. I say that a bunch of times. Okay, I say that a lot for a good reason because people get these confused. It is an input into your computer. Okay, so it's an audio input capture. If you look at the properties in that, that is the main stereo. Remember, microphone was the chat. Main mix. Everything else is the main stereo. Okay, got it. So that's our microphone. This is our main mix coming

from the RODECaster. And then the other things we have by default here is our desktop. Now we want our desktop to be muted because we're sending that out, line out, and we're bringing it back in through the main. So if we have our desktop audio also enabled, we're going to get the same audio twice. We don't want that. That's it. Those are the only audio sources you need for this to work. Okay, you just need your mic as a separate channel and your main mix as the other one. In fact, if you don't

care about recording your voice or your sound effects over a separate audio channel, you could even get rid of this microphone and just send everything over main mix. And you can change that in the routing and the RODECaster. So entirely up to you. That's it for OBS. Okay, that's the whole OBS setup. Easy peasy. All right, now let's test our audio sources. As you can see on the RODECaster, here's my microphone. You can see the little bar there going all good. What's the first thing we were going

to test? Let's test our music first, since it's right here on my screen. We have our music. So our music right now is set to go over line out. Okay, just like our system audio. So if I were to play that, it might be kind of loud. So we'll see. Okay. And I'm just going to turn it down here right now in the app. Okay, so there's our music. And it's coming in over, as you can see, on the RODECaster. This is coming over the channel that's supposed to be for just our system stuff. Right? So all we g

ot to do is change from line out to what we say it was going to go out the speakers, the main speakers, right? So we hit that. Now, we still have it coming in our mix. But now it's coming in over the right channel, which is our music channel, which is where we wanted it. Here's our system alerts. Here's our music channel. Oh, by the way, system alerts. We can just test those real quick. I'm just going to do this with the volume. Okay, there's our system alerts. So anything on the desktop, any al

ert, like subscriber alerts, donation alerts, and things like that, by default, are going to come through that channel. You can adjust that on its own separate fader. Right? So I just turn that down. Now it's softer. A little more. Still kind of loud. Okay. System alerts. Music. Got it. Done deal. Let's do Discord. Discord chat was on this fader right here. I am going to mute the music right now. I'll just pause it. Oh, you know what I can do here? I can just leave music playing and I can just p

ress mute on my music source right here. Music and fader. There we go. No more music. Perfect. Right? All right. Let's test Discord. So for Discord configuration, our input device is going to be microphone, Rodecaster, Pro2 chat output. Same thing. Rodecaster, Pro2 chat speakers. Okay. This is all being handled over the chat channel. So let's test it to make sure it works. I'm going to hit the check button here. So then when I talk, you're going to see me show up on the microphone input. And the

n when it plays back my voice, you'll see that come back through the Discord chat fader. Check. Check. One, two. And we can lower the volume. We can raise the volume. Check one, two. There we go. Discord chat done. That one's super easy. Okay. That takes care of all the audio on our streaming PC. Let's switch to our game. Okay. So we have we've taken care of our microphone fader. We've got our system alerts fader. We've got our music. And we've got our Discord fader all taken care of. Right? Wha

t's left? We have our game audio and our game chat. Okay. Our game audio should be coming over. It's kind of loud actually. This fader, right? So this is our main game audio. So let me just lower that fader because it's kind of loud. You can see it coming through there. In fact, I can just turn the cinematic music up. Right. Got that good. So we got our game audio. Cool. Let's make sure we got our game chat. So our audio settings in here are going to be our main output for our game. Again, is th

at Roadcaster Pro 2 secondary or voice chat input device or sorry, voice chat output device is different than the main device. Or remember sending the outline of the line out going to input four. So that is my speakers, real time USB audio on my computer is what that says. Okay. And then our input microphone input device is the desktop microphone Roadcaster Pro 2 secondary. So we can hear the game audio clearly coming in this input right here. Okay. That is this fader here. I can make it louder.

And software. So that's our game audio. And then what we need to do is test our chat. So let's do that. So we've muted our game audio. Now, if I go to test my mic, it'll be the same thing. You'll see my initial voice come through on this fader because that's my microphone I'm talking to you on. And then you'll hear it again through this fader as the game chat replays my voice. Okay. So if we do that, that's really loud. That's really loud. Which is why we have this fader. So we can turn it down

. That's the whole point to turn down game chat. So that works. And we are rocking and rolling. And you can see that that's not coming through. That's not coming through my mic. On OBS. I need my mouse back. So here's my mic. And here's the game chat. Going back through the main mix. So that's it. It's all done. It's all routed and working perfectly. All right. Listen, I can hear you Twitch guys saying, hey, but you know, I play copyrighted music on my stream and I need to be able to do Twitch V

OD and have my music separate. So I have a solution for you. So let me change diagrams here. So what we're going to do to fix that is now here's the thing. My preference is if you're not using these speakers, that you use another one of these cables here and you connect that from this speaker slash monitor output to line in on the streaming PC. If you are using these speakers, then we're going to use headphone two. So I'm going to show you how to do headphone two. But if you do use this, then yo

u just copy the routing that I'm doing from headphone two over to this and you're good to go. OK. All right. So if you're going to use headphone, then you just need a one quarter inch output, you know, headphone output jack to a one eighth inch input for your line in. All right. Or if you have one of those little, you know, quarter inch headphone adapters and you have a one eighth, one eighth cable, you can use that too. OK. And then, of course, optionally but strongly recommended is always the

ground loop isolator. All right. So you're going to plug that in and your line in and you're going to make sure your computer is working OK. Now, I had a hard time with my computer. That's why it took me a few takes to get this done, because my computer was giving me a hell of a time with my line in, as you can always expect from Windows. So let me show you what I was going through to make this work and what I ended up having to do. I ended up pulling up this Realtek audio control console. Now y

ou may or may not have this. I don't know. And in fact, when you plug your line in input, it might just work and you don't have to do any of this. But I'm going to show you this just in case you experience issues. But I ended up having to go in this Realtek audio control thing in my Jigger and go into this device advanced settings, you know, had these from off to on. And then made sure these were all line ends. OK. Front panel and back panel. And then I ended up getting my ended up showing my li

ne in devices. OK. So if your line in isn't working, try this Realtek audio control panel or whatever other panel you have for your line in and try to get them working that way. OK. But that's what I had to do. All right. Let's get rid of that. Now, when you do that, your computer might switch your input to one of these line ends. What you want to do is make sure you go and change that back. OK. You want to change that back to microphone broadcaster pro to chat. Now, the other thing we want to d

o is make sure that we don't set our level too high for our line in because we're feeding an amplified signal into line in, which, as I mentioned before, if you can use that monitor out, that's preferred because that's a line out level signal. OK. And it'll be virtually noise free. So but if you can't do that and you have to use headphone, we don't want to overload the input, the line input with a heavily amplified signal. So what we're going to do is we're just going to adjust our line in volum

e to about 25. I wouldn't go any higher than 50. 25 is fine. And that's going to make sure that you don't have too much noise or hiss in your line in. I mean, you're going to have it. You're feeding an amplified signal into a line input. But the lower you have this input volume, the less noise you're going to hear. In fact, it's hardly perceptible unless you have some really good headphones on. You have the volume cranked. You can hardly hear the hiss. So we have our input volume at 25 on our li

ne in. What we want to do on the road caster for the headphone output on that dial is just set that to about two o'clock or so. And that's going to give you the right level to feed into OBS. All right. Now, if you're using the monitor out instead of the headphone, I would recommend that you just set that to a line level output and not use the dial. And then what you want to do for the input volume for that on the line end is change that from 25 to 100. That's a really clean signal so we can go a

head and crank up the input volume on the computer. Now we're going to go. Now we can go and reconfigure our road caster. All right. So I've got Road Central pulled up. We're going to go into device configuration. Now in your headphones, since we're using headphone two, we should be able to leave this on regular high sensitivity. Then we go into routing. And I already unchecked this, right? So we already had the music playing into our main mix. You can't hear it right now, but you can see it on

the road caster on the yellow fader here. That music is playing, although it's switching songs right now. And you can't hear it now if I turn it back on. Real quick. Okay. Now you can hear the music, right? So we don't want that. We want to have a separate music source. So we'll turn that off. What we're going to do is we're going to switch that over to this headphone. So right now it's already playing in line end, but we haven't configured a source in OBS. That's why you still can't hear it, bu

t we don't want everything going out to that input. We just want our music. So we're just going to deselect everything. It isn't music. And now we have music just going there. Like I said, if you're using your monitor out for that, you just do the same thing. Okay. You just unselect everything except music and your monitors will be your output source for just music. All right. So that's all set. That's all you have to do there. Now we go to OBS and all we need to do then is add a source. That's

going to be an audio input capture. That is the right line in. Now we hear the music and ta-da. We now have our music from line in. We have our separate mix for everything else. And now we can do our Twitch VOD track. All right. So you can see the volume is kind of low here, right? So you're not hearing music very well. I can hear pretty good in my ears, but it's not going out to the stream very good or out to the recording very well. And I've got this all the way cranked up. I can't do any more

than that. You can try and adjust the levels on your input on your computer. You can even go into the RODECaster and crank up the gain here, but that also changes your headphones. You probably just want to try and adjust this for your stream accordingly. And so the best way to do that, I would say, is just going here into your music source, add a filter, pull that down here, just add yourself a gain filter. Okay. And then to make that louder, we're just going to add maybe about 15, 20 dBs here.

Let's see. 20 dBs. 20 dBs sounds pretty good, right? Looks about right on the level. I can't hear you, I can't hear what you're hearing until I can hear this in post, but it's probably not good. Maybe a little softer. All right. So that's what I would recommend how to manage that. But that takes care of your Twitch VOD issue. So now you can take that music, put that on the right track, put your other stuff on the right track. Now I have to worry about copyright music ending up in your Twitch VO

Ds. All right. Enjoy. There you have it folks. You can see I got the game running in the background. I got the music playing on another channel. I got the mic coming in from another channel. It is working perfectly. So the only other thing I promised you was a much simpler OBS configuration. I think you have it here. You only have three audio sources we have to worry about at the moment, but we can even make this simpler. Check this out. I can combine my mic and my music into RCP2 main. Okay. Ju

st have that, have everything going through the main mix out. And then the only thing I have to control from an audio levels perspective is all on my Rodecaster. I set the volume in OBS on RCP2 main mix at one time. I never have to touch it again. Check this out. There you have it. I have everything else muted. I have everything routed through RCP2 main. And what we will do is we will just go ahead and hide these other music sources. Let's go ahead and hide these guys. We will put up our OBS. An

d there we go. We have one audio source in OBS that we have to worry about. And that's it. System alerts coming through rock and roll. See that? So that's your OBS alerts that will be coming through. Easy peasy baby. All right. Listen, man. I hope you all enjoyed that video. I hope it was helpful for you. If it was, please subscribe. Please hit that like button. And this is Ashley signing out. I will see you on the line later or I will see you on another time. Peace.