Then right below that see where audio tracks are listed. You must pick under Recording Format a suitable recording format for the multiple tracks per recording. Next head to the output settings and switch to the advance recording output (this can only be done in advance. Therefore, that’s why you see the virtual cable output in recording devices under the Windows Mixer. Now in OBS head to the audio tab to configure OBSĪs you can see, you want to select the virtual cable under any available mic/aux audio device section. In Discord, you can find it under Voice & Video when you click the cog icon next to your nameĪs you can see, in output device I selected my virtual cable input as the output device (Confused yet?) Basically, you are outputting from Discord into the virtual cable hence the cable input is listed in playback devices. Now into your program of choice and go into that settings menu to switch the output device. In your Windows Mixer and right click on the speaker in the taskbar and you will see one new cable both in playback and recording. Your program you want to have separate audio sources for (VOIP like Discord or Skype, Foobar for music, etc any kind of audio devices that can switch playback) I will be using Discord for this tutorial.ĭownload the virtual audio cables of your choice. Virtual Audio Cables (Can get this in many ways but the one I am using is from VB-Audio) Mac users will have to wait for another day. This tutorial is meant for Windows users. Today I will show how to add separate audio tracks to OBS and allows you record independently of each other.

While OBS is used for streaming, it’s a very useful recording software when configured correctly.

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