<aside> ⏩ If you're only going to use your internal or USB mic only (no DAW, external instruments or apps to play audio), you can skip this section and go straight to 5. How to set up OBS?.

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Very important recommendations 🚨

• Make sure your sound is loud enough and that the balance between your mic and other sounds you might play is good. It’s very important that everyone can hear your voice. Read more about this.
• We strongly recommend doing Livestreams wearing headphones to avoid feedback loop issues with your mic and speakers.
• Remember you’re legally not allowed to play other people’s music on a Live Stream without proper authorizations.

Setup on Mac

Introduction : capturing audio in a Live Stream on Mac

On Mac, you can’t capture audio from any app to send to another app. But don’t worry, there’s now plenty of easy option to overcome this limitation.

We recommend reading the OBS guide to capture audio on Mac.

In a nutshell, if you have MacOS 13 (Ventura) or above and a recent version of OBS, OBS will allow you to capture audio from any app or window.

Set up your Audio routing

Audio Setup 1

No soundcard. No external instruments. Monitoring through computer headphones output.

Audio Setup 1

Audio Setup 2

You’re working “inside the computer” but you want to play some external instruments. You have a soundcard to connect your instruments to your computer. You’re monitoring from the soundcard headphones or monitor output.

Audio Setup 2

Audio Setup 3

You’re using an external mixer as the core of your studio to plug your instruments, playback tracks from your DAW sessions and monitoring.

Audio Setup 3