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SaveusAlex

I need some Audio Setup Help (Console + PC Audio out of one output)

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I need help to make my life a bit easier with console streaming. PC Streaming is a non issue but when I stream via console I typically wear Earbuds and Headphones. Earbuds (Connected to my PC) so I can hear alerts that happen on my stream and headphones for my console game audio. There must be a way to get both of those audio sources to play through a pair of headphones right?

Audio stuff has never been my strong point and I've been doing the headphone + earbud thing for around 18 months now. I just want to streamline this as much as possible. As it stands right now I use an El Gato HD60Pro Capture Card and my PC uses a Asus Xonar DGX sound card.

I've been getting told to invest in a mixer but I have no idea where to start looking or how it all works. I also know that I can play audio from my capture device to my PC through OBS but the audio is so delayed on my end that I can't play my games, not only that but it also causes all sorts of audio sync issues from the viewer side and considering I frequently switch between PC and Console games, I feel like changing the sync settings up so much if I could find one that worked would just be a gigantic hassle.

Posted May 14, 2017, 2:08 PM UTC · edited

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IIIDEFAULTIIITwitch.tv/IIIDEFAULTIII•

Yea a mixer will make this work. Personally I use the Astro mixamp TR. I can listen to my pc and any console at the same time through one headset.

It uses a spdif / toslink cable that plugs from your console to the mixamp. Then it has a 3.5mm AUX port you can plug anything into, including your pc or phone or tablet anything.

Doing that it will also push game / party chat and all game sounds or anything the mixamp "hears" to the stream, be that music your alerts anything you play on your pc. Also with the mixamp TR if your using say a external mic you can turn off your headset mic to the stream and use the external one for the stream but your normal mic for game / party chat.

You can check that out here http://blog.astrogaming.com/2016/09/stream-dream-audio-setup/

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KILRbunytwitch.tv/superKILRbuny•

This is what I use. Mine gets a bit more complicated when trying to play switch. I actually have my Switch hdmi to my capture card, then hdmi to my second monitor, then 3.5mm audio from the monitor back to the CPU, then I use voicemeeter banana to route the audio back out the optical to my mix amp pro. If the switch dock had a damn optical audio out I never would have learned this crazy setup.

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IIIDEFAULTIIITwitch.tv/IIIDEFAULTIII•

Yea the switch gets a bit more complicated for sure took me a good hour to find a setup I liked.

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KILRbunytwitch.tv/superKILRbuny•

I wish I could just snag the audio feed straight from the capture card and send it to voicemeeter. That would eliminate swapping my optical cable all over. I'm thinking about getting an HDMI switch with an optical out, which would also eliminate that issue.

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SaveusAlexOPwww.twitch.tv/alexisplaying•

Switch is my main console for streaming right now. It sounds like I have a lot of research to do with that.

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SaveusAlexOPwww.twitch.tv/alexisplaying•

Thank you for the help!

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BustersBottomsRed•

Plug 3.5mm audio jacks into the back of the TV and the PC, then feed those two into a 3.5mm Y-adapter, then feed that out to your headset. I had to find a headset with a female 3.5mm input.

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