Windows 10: Is there a way to "listen" to a mic on 2 playback devices at once (without voicemeeter)?

I'm trying to stream my switch and I use OBS Camera and a line-in for audio, and I route the audio through virtual audio cable along with my talking microphone. If I listen to VAC output, then not only can I also hear my headset microphone which I don't want, but there is also a horrendous delay.

Voicemeeter also causes everything to become mute until I close it, and a reinstall didn't work. I just want a basic program that lets me listen to my line in through both VAC and my headphones, or something similar without the delay VAC has.

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How can I record playback audio and mic?

I've actually managed to my problem, just by Googling...after finally figuring out what to Google.


Problem: Using Audicity, I wanted to record audio of myself singing karaoke. Sound inputs

• YouTube video playing from Google Chrome
• G933 Logitech Headset (or any USB mic for that matter)

Two applications required for this. Download these two apps. When installing, make sure you Run As Administrator for each. Install each app, then reboot your PC.

• Virtual Audio Cable - Allows you to record computer audio
• VoiceMeeter Banana - Mixes two (possibly more) sound Inputs as one, which ends up being your Recording device for Audacity.

In Windows 10

1. Go to Control Panel>Sounds>Playback and Set CABLE Input as your Default Playback device. Verify that you now have these three additional Playback Devices:

• CABLE Output
  
• VoiceMeeter Aux Output
  
• VoiceMeeter Output

1. Go to the Recording tab and Set CABLE Output as your Default Recording device. Verify that you now have these three additional Recording Devices:

• CABLE Output
• VoiceMeeter Aux Output
• VoiceMeeter Output

In Audacity (Preferences>Settings>Devices):

• Host: MME
• Playback Device: VoiceMeeter Input (VB-Audio Voi
• Recording Device: VoiceMeeter Output (VB-Audio Vo
• Channels: 2 (Stereo)

Open Voice Meeter Banana (use the Search box next to the Start button) and change these settings:

• HARDWARE INPUT 1: MME: CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual
• HARDWARE INPUT 2: MME: Set it to your desired microphone. I used Microphone Logitech G933 Gaming). For this hardware input, select A1 to deselect it. Otherwise, you will hear your voice playing through your Speakers/Headset.
• HARDWARE OUT: Click A1 and select MME: <your output device>. In my case, MME: Speakers (Logitech G933 Gaming)

To test: Go to Youtube, find a video to play. Go to Audacity. Click Record, then go back to your YouTube video and click play. You should see the sound meter go up and down, in accordance to the track you're playing. Additionally if you speak, you will see your mic's meter rise and fall, as well. Stop the recording when finished. Note that to hear the newly recorded track's audio, you may have to change your Playback sound to your desired device. It i also important to note to reset your Playback device once exiting VoiceMeeter Banana, to your desired audio output device. This can be done by selecting the sound button on your System Tray.

 

Playback detecting Input Devices & Recording detecting Output Devices

Hi and welcome!

This is absolutely normal!
What you see as "Input" in Playback tab, actually it is an input (like all the rest, system audio inputs).

Setting VoiceMeeter as Default (in Playback tab), means that system audio playback goes to VoiceMeeter for processing and NOT to your speakers.

If you want to listen to what's VoiceMeeter doing (the reason you got it, I think), you must go to Recording tab, open VoiceMeeter Output Properties -> Listen tab, check "Listen to this device" box and right below, specify the desired listening output.

This is the only way to listen to processed sound and that's the way those apps work.

Perhaps, you should set your Mic as Default, in Recording tab, for your game (or VoiceMeeter) to access it. There is no reason for VoiceMeeter to be set as Default in Recording tab, except of recording purposes.

Hope that helps!

 

'Listen to device' not changing to default playback device

I have just done a windows update from Windows 10 1803 to 1909 and my audio input which should playback through the default playback device no longer automatically adapts to a change in default playback device. For example if I change the default playback device from Speakers to Headset, the input still plays through Speakers, until I manually go to the settings and Uncheck/recheck listen to this device, or disable/re-enable the input device, then it will play through the headset.

Is there any way to make the "Listen to this device" option always playback through the default playback device, or any way I could programmatically disable/re-enable the audio input so that it would start playing through the correct playback device?

(Picture shows the settings on the Listen tab for my audio input)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/coZ9f.png