Monitors are audio devices where we can check the audio being captured by the output channel. For now and in most cases you want to leave them alone.Īfter setting this up all audio from the selected application will run through the output channels we have mapped it to and we won’t be able to hear the audio from our standard output devices like our headphones or our computer internal audio devices.įor us to be able to listen to the sound of the app from the local machine we need to set up a Monitor. You can remove or swap them at your own leisure. These map the stereo outputs from the application audio to the output of the virtual device.
Notice the blue lines that go from the Source to the Output Channels. After you select the app you will something like this: You can set the source to listen to either an audio device or any application like Skype, Zoom, Chrome, Spotify, etc… For this exercise, we are going to use Microsoft Teams. To select the application you want to listen to, click the plus (+) button next to the Sources header and choose the application from the list that appears. To rename the audio device you have to click the pencil button next to the audio device name. Next, we are going to rename the Virtual Device for the application we want it to listen to, in this case, I’ll name it “Teams Audio Device” because I want to listen to Microsoft Teams Video Calls for interviews and such. To remove the Pass-Thru device select it and click the “ Delete” button below. The Pass-Thru source enables other applications to send audio directly into this virtual device but that’s not what we want right now so we are going to remove it. Launch it and you will see something like this:
HOW TO AUDIO LOOPBACK LICENSE
There is a free version that degrades audio quality after 20 minutes of use and there is a paid license for US$99.
HOW TO AUDIO LOOPBACK HOW TO
Here is a little guide on how Loopback works and how to set it up with OBS:įirst, you want to download and install Loopback. We use it for two online shows called DevBorrachos and the. This feature is very useful if you are going to do streaming. At Megsoft we are using this tool called Loopback that allows you to route the audio output from an application to a virtual audio device. Today I’m going to go on a bit of a tangent here.