How to Use Virtual Audio Cables with OBS: A Step-by-Step Guide

Are you tired of dealing with multiple audio tracks in your live streams and recordings? Look no further than virtual audio cables! In this article, we'll show you how to use VB-Cable to split your audio into separate tracks and connect them to OBS.

VB-Cable certainly isn’t the first application to let you do this. However, it's a powerful tool that can help you record audio from various sources, such as your DAW or another app, and add it to your screen video recording. For example, you can record audio from your browser or a VOIP app in your DAW.

To get started, download the VB-Cable driver pack from 'We do not recommend downloading anything other than from the official website.' and follow the installation instructions. Once installed, you'll need to restart your PC.

Next, open Voicemeter Banana and make sure that your virtual audio cable is being used and all your audio is being transmitted to your headphones or speakers. You can do this by clicking on the input device and selecting the newly downloaded virtual audio cable, which I've named 'music'.

Now, it's time to assign the audio cable to a program. To do this, open OBS and go to Settings > Audio > Output Device. Select the virtual audio cable as your output device.

If you want to record audio from Spotify or another app, you'll need to change the output device of that app to the virtual audio cable. You can do this by opening sound settings and clicking on App Volume and Device Preferences.

Finally, open Voicemeter Banana and make sure that your audio cable is being used and all your audio is being transmitted to your headphones or speakers.

By following these steps, you'll be able to use virtual audio cables with OBS to record separate tracks of audio for your live streams and recordings. This can be useful for splitting microphone audio, game audio, music, and even the audio of programs such as Discord into separate tracks so you can edit them in video editors.

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