in this video i'm going to be showing you how you can separate all of your different audio sources for your stream so you can have complete independent control over your game audio your discord chat your music and your microphone without having to spend any money on something like a go xlr or an elgato wave microphone and don't worry i'm not going to be asking you to install some super complicated software like voicemeeter this new solution can be done completely within obs studio just before we
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n is still in beta testing but i've been uh using it for the past few weeks and i've had absolutely zero issues so download either the executable for easy install or the zip folder if you want to drag and drop this manually into your plugins folder once installed you should have this new option in your sources menu called application audio output capture but before we go about adding all of our individual audio sources you want to jump into the settings go to the audio tab and just make sure tha
t desktop audio and desktop audio 2 are both set to disabled and this will prevent us getting any duplicated audio whilst we're in here you might as well make sure that your mic auxiliary audio is set to the correct microphone and then once that's all set up properly you can click ok to close down the settings since we're going to be adding all of our audio sources individually it can get quite repetitive to add them to every single scene that you have so instead i would recommend setting up a n
ested scene to put all of our individual audio sources within to do that let's add a new scene and name this nice and easily i like to do ns in square brackets for nested scene and then audio sources okay so let's add our first audio source which will be our music player now it's important to note that you actually have to have the application open that you want to capture so for me that's spotify but if you use itunes or deezer or amazon music you just need to have the application open and idea
lly playing some music as well so i'll start playing some music using spotify and then back within obs within our nested scene we want to add a new source uh using the new application audio output capture and then you probably want to name this just to keep things organized so i'm going to call this music since we're going to be capturing our music audio source the only option we need to change here is the window we want to find the right executable for me that's spotify.exe and then we can leav
e the window match priority at match title otherwise find window of same executable which just means no matter what song is playing in spotify it's going to be capturing the audio from that application everything can be left at the defaults and then we can click ok and if we look down here at the audio mixer we can see that we have a new meter here for our music and if i was to then uh pause spotify you can see the meter comes back down again and this is completely independent of any of the othe
r sounds happening on my desktop so any system sounds or game sounds or discord audio won't be coming through this music channel so next you want to repeat this process of adding your audio sources and capturing the specific window maybe you want to do one for your teammates using discord one for your game audio one for your system sounds or one for your browser audio if you're the kind of person that likes to watch things like youtube whilst you're on stream once you've gone through and added a
ll of the different audio sources you want to capture we can head across to any of our other scenes like this example game scene and actually add the audio sources nested scene as a source so come across to sources here click the plus icon look for scene and then we're going to add our existing nested scene of audio sources and you can see as soon as i click that we then in our audio mixer get the options for all of the different audio sources that we added within that nested scene so now you ha
ve complete independent control over all of your different audio sources for your stream so if you need to change volumes or mute certain sources or even add advanced filters to individual sources you can do so a couple of advanced bonus tips if you own something like a stream deck you can add keys to individually control each of these audio sources so without having to alt tab you can quickly lower the volume of your teammates in discord for example you do need to use the obs tools plugin from
var radar but once you've done that you can just drag onto a certain key on your stream deck and then control an obs audio source directly also if you want obs studio to automatically lower and raise your music volume when you start and stop speaking you can do that by doing something called audio ducking or side chaining directly with an aovs all you have to do is add a filter to your music source which is the compression filter and then on the sidechain slash ducking source you set that to be
your microphone now you probably have to play with some of the other settings here like ratio and threshold if you want to learn exactly how to do that i have a really quick but detailed four minute guide that i'll leave linked up in the top corner as well as in the description down below finally if you haven't yet added any filters to your microphone i'd absolutely recommend you check out my five steps to make your microphone sound pro video where i go through how you can use obs studio to add
filters to your microphone to make it sound better it's a banger i promise if you've enjoyed this video please do give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't already it's completely free to do and if you click the bell it will notify you of any new uploads on this channel i'll catch you next one peace
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