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How to get your audio setup ready for doing prank calls on Discord; Learn how to use sophisticated audio software for petty fun
Topic Started: Jan 5 2018, 09:21 PM (985 Views)
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This is so when you do prank calls, you, the callers, and your friends on Discord can all hear each other. If that's what you're looking for, you're in the right place.


Software you'll need:

1. Install both of the programs. For Virtual Audio Cable, keep your download files, you may need them for the next step. Restart your computer after installing both programs.

2. Open the control panel for Virtual Audio Cable. The easiest way to do this is going to your start menu and just searching for "vcctlpan" and launching it from there. Make sure you launch it with administrator permissions. If you can't find it there, look in your download files for Virtual Audio Cable. It should look like the picture below:

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3. In the upper left corner of the Virtual Audio Cable control panel, set "Cables" to 3, and then click the "Set" button near it. Select all of your cables and set "Stream Buffer (ms)" to 10ms, and make sure you click the "Set" button.

4. Now you want to launch Voicemeeter. Make sure you launch voicemeeterpro.exe and not voicemeeter.exe. Make all of your settings look like the picture below. To add hardware inputs, simply click the text directly underneath "Hardware input" and select from the drop down menu. Where it says "Your speakers/headphones" and "Your microphone" you'll obviously want to find those devices in the drop down menu and select them for that entry.

USE THE "WDM" VERSION FOR EVERY DEVICE WHEN AVAILABLE

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5. Go to the menu in Voicemeeter and make it look like this:

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6. Now right click the speaker icon in the bottom-right of your screen and select "Playback devices", set "Voicemeeter VAIO" not "Voicemeeter AUX VAIO" as your default playback device. Optionally, it can also be helpful to set "Line 3" as your default Recording Device.

7. You're almost done now. All you have to do is configure all of your programs to use this new setup. Set Discord to have Line 1 as the input and Line 2 for the output. Now set the program that you do your calls with (Google Hangouts, Skype, etc.) to have "Voicemeeter VAIO" as the input and "Voicemeeter AUX VAIO" as the output. For your recording software you'll want the input to be Line 3.

You're done! If it's not working, you might have to restart again. Now for the love of god, disable your Windows Sounds.

If you have any issues, refer to the Troubleshooting section at the bottom. If you don't find your answer there then make a reply on this thread about it.

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Everything from here on is optional, so if you just want to do prank calls and you don't care about optimizing your setup too much, you can stop here. Also if you're a grandma-level-computer-user you should probably stop here as well and make your grandson some cookies. He would appreciate it a lot.

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Making Voicemeeter output in a higher sample rate

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Getting the lowest latency in your audio setup

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Setting up macro keys

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Troubleshooting:

RESTART YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE GOING THROUGH ANY TROUBLESHOOTING


My Voicemeeter looks different! It looks like this:
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You need to launch voicemeeterpro.exe, not voicemeeter.exe. Check your install folder. If it's not present in there then you did not download Voicemeeter Banana and you'll need to uninstall your current Voicemeeter and download from the link provided at the top of this thread.

My audio starts crackling every now and then

Make sure you set "Stream Buffer (ms)" to 10ms in your Virtual Audio Cable control panel (vcctlpan.exe) as mentioned above. If that doesn't fix it, check out the section below.

My audio crackles constantly

Check vcctlpan.exe and see if the counters under "Oflows" and "UFlows" are going up. If they are, set "Stream Buffer (ms)" to be a higher value on all of the cables. If they aren't, turn the buffer for WDM up in Voicemeeter (Menu > System Settings / Options) and see if that stops the problem.

If the two solutions above didn't work out, launch "VBCABLE_ControlPanel.exe" and "VBVMAUX_ControlPanel.exe" from your Voicemeeter install folder and see if "Push loss" or "Pull loss" are increasing in value. If they are, increase your Max Latency in the options tab of both of those windows. You'll need to restart and Voicemeeter will have to be disabled as a startup program.

If you're using ASIO4ALL, turn your buffer up inside of that program and see if that solves the crackle.

If none of the above fixes your issue, refer to the troubleshooting sections in the resources below.

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Resources:
https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/VoicemeeterBanana_UserManual.pdf
https://www.vb-audio.com/Cable/VBCABLE_SystemSettings.pdf
vac.chm from the Virtual Audio Cable download files
http://discord.gg/JmU38Hb <-- Nippler Pirate Radio Discord Server
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