Virtual Audio Cable For Mac
Note: While we suggest utilizing Virtual Audio cable where necessary and when applicable, we’re unfortunately unable to support any technical issues with the software. For help with Virtual Audio Cable please reach out to VB-Audio here.
VB-Audio CABLE A & B are two others macOS Audio Drivers working as two Virtual Audio Cable to connect more applications together. You may have tested VB-CABLE MAC before purchasing this package. Select your donation amount and get your download link (or in 'My Download' page). Install Virtual Audio Cable, set that as your monitor in OBS, set your sources in OBS to 'monitor and output', and set virtual audio cable as your mic in Zoom. Use the OBS Virtual Cam to send your video. You should be good to go! VB-Audio Virtual Cable. VB-Audio CABLE is a Windows Audio Driver working as a Virtual Audio.
If you’re looking for Mac OS compatible software, you can get a similar effect with Soundflower
A common question that comes up from newer streamers is, “how can I split my game audio and my voice chat?”. By default, you can’t accomplish this when you capture your computer’s audio since you’re essentially capturing everything at once. But there must be a way to do this, right? One way is through a “VAC” or Virtual Audio Cable.
VAC’s allow you to separate different audio sources from each other and then control which ones actually get fed into your stream. Maybe you’ve got a producer that you don’t want your stream to hear or maybe you just don’t want your stream to hear your rowdy friends over Discord. VAC’s are a great tool for accomplishing these needs and more.
Setting up a VAC is relatively straightforward but can be confusing for a first time user. First, you’ll want to download the setup files from VB-Audio’s website. Once you’ve downloaded the files, you’ll want to run VBCABLE_Setup or VBCABLE_Setup_x64 based on if your PC is 32 bit or 64 bit in order to install the VAC driver.
After installing, you’ll want to go to the “Playback devices” section of your Sound settings to find your shiny new VAC and to start getting it all set up.
Once there, you’ll want to click on your VAC and hit the big, “Set Default” button at the bottom of the window.
Next, you’ll want to click over to the Recording tab where you’ll see another VAC. Right click on this cable, go to Properties, and then visit the Listen tab to finish your setup. Once there, you’ll want to check the box labeled “Listen to this device” and then select your headset or speakers of choice that you’d like to hear your audio through.
Now that you’re all set up you’re free to move on to one of the most popular application of VAC’s, hiding voice communication programs from your stream. For this example, we’ll be using Discord but the same process will work with whatever your voice chat of choice is.
To make sure your voice chat is off stream you’ll want to go into your Discord settings, open the Voice tab, and then set your Output Device to the headset or speakers you’ll be using instead of the VAC you just set up. This will make it so that only you’re able to hear your friends and their obscenities!
We hope this guide helped you get up and running with your Virtual Audio Cable. If you need anymore help though, just hit us up either in our own Discord or through our in-app chat. Happy streaming!
I have started to use OBS to create a virtual background for my Google Meet meetings. This has worked very well thus far. However, I’ve noticed a sync delay between the video and sound. One way to resolve this is to get the OBS to process the audio as well. Now I just need to get OBS audio output on Zoom and Google Meet
Read on to see how to get this working!
OBS Audio Output on Zoom and Google Meet
1. Install SoundFlower virtual audio device
To start, you will need to install a virtual audio device on your machine. On MacOS, you can use Soundflower to get this. The latest release can be found on this link. For Windows users, there is the VB-CABLE Virtual Audio Device that can you use instead. They also have a Mac driver but Soundflower more popular within the MacOS community. If you want a advanced audio routing capabiltiies, you can also check out Loopback app.
As I am a MacOS user, the guide here will show the use of Soundflower. Do note that on MacOS Catalina, the first round of installation of Soundflower will fail. This is not a problem.
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The first time you run the installer (Soundflower.pkg), it will ask for your admin password, and will FAIL! A security alert will appear, with a button to take you to System Preferences “Security & Privacy – General” pane. Once there, there should be an “Allow” button (**) that you will need to click on to give permission to use Soundflower (developer: MATT INGALLS). Then, RUN THE INSTALLER AGAIN. It should inform you installation was successfull.
(**) If you see an “Open Anyway” button in the Security Preferences, this is something different!!! Most likely because you tried (and failed) opening the installer by double clicking without holding down the control key. If so, click the “Open Anyway” button which will display another window. Then click the “Open” button in that window to launch the installer. Now you can follow the instructions above to get the “Allow” button to appear in the Security Preferences.
Virtual Audio Routing
The cool thing about Soundflower is that it is an audio device that supports both audio input and output! Any audio that is fed into the Soundflower virtual audio device’s input can be routed as an output as well to another application.
2. Set the monitor device on OBS to Soundflower
OBS supports audio monitoring. This is typically used to monitor or hear the processed audio that is being broadcasted in the stream. Therefore, if you set it as the Soundflower virtual audio device, you can then use it as the mic input device on Zoom or Google Meet.
You can find the OBS Audio Monitoring Device settings as shown in the screenshot below.
3. Turn on monitoring on the OBS audio device
There is still one more step to get the OBS audio output on Zoom or Google Meet. By default, monitoring is not turned on for the audio devices. To do so, click on the advanced settings for your audio device.
I recommend using the Monitor Only option as there is no need to send the audio out to an output.
4. Set Zoom and Google Meet to use Soundflower as the mic
If everything is set up right, all you need to do is to just set Zoom and Google Meet to use Soundflower as the mic input. With that, you’re done!
Why all the trouble with OBS Audio on Zoom and Google Meet?
Its because you can do quite a fair bit of audio processing on OBS! One of the things I’m experimenting now is to enable a noise gate so that the mic is only turned on above a certain audio threshold.
There are a lot more that you can do here which I’ve yet to explore, especially with the support of VST 2.x plug-ins.
Virtual Audio Cable Download Mac
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