 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here So I wanted to demonstrate one of the coolest functions in OBS studio and that is the ability to hook up a couple of different microphones into the program and to record simultaneously from them whether you are streaming or whether you are recording and That is basically what I'm doing at the moment. So just explain a how this works and be Kind of what you can do when you've got those mics set up. So the first thing to say is that I currently have two USB microphones just plugged into my computer I'm wearing one here. It's a USB Lavalier microphone if I just move away the mixers and the second one is a shotgun microphone and the shotgun microphone is on a boom arm and If I can just bring it into frame here, that's actually the one that you're listening to And I will swap over shortly to the lab mic. Now how this works basically is When you are going into your source selection in OBS studio, you just need to add I'm just going to drag this guy over here. So you can also see this you just need to add the Sources that you want to use and then add them one by one. So for instance, you know, you'd commonly add a Microphone source when you're booting up and well what you need to do To just go ahead and add a second microphone source and then you can access them both in the mixer So if you can just see What I have set up here. I have my screen which is basically I'm using another screen of my array here to keep the mixer on I have the webcam that I'm speaking into and then I have two Audio sources and I just added them sequentially. So Uh, when I started the first thing I added was a Lab microphone the one here and then I added the podcasting mic now I do think it's really helpful to properly label them. So if I'm just going to take away the lab mic for a second here Down to just the podcasting mic Which is the one that is currently in use so you can see there's only one level Visible in the mixer. So what it will do is add a second microphone and uh, I'm going to go for a input capture Slightly out of frame here because I've cropped it. I realized but bear with me just for one second And I'm going to call this so this is just want to make sure you label these properly. So lab mic and the source should be visible And now I have the dialogue window and it knows that the first microphone we're using is A certain microphone and there's nothing stopping you. You just need to tell it that it's going to be a separate device So the lavalier microphone that I want to add to this recording is my ono elf doesn't quite correspond the uh firmware names to the actual products, but the mono fairy is the Condenser and the mono elf is the lab mic. So I'm going to go for mono elf And now I should have there we go lab mics being added To my source selection dialogue and in the mixer now You're actually currently listening while you were for a few seconds to the lab and the podcasting microphone Uh mixed together. So another cool thing is you can basically add filters Uh simultaneously, so I'm just going to go into Lab mic and I'm going to add a noise suppression filter because Uh, it needs it. I'm going to go for speaks And there we go. There is a noise suppression filter now on the lab mic Um, ah, you're actually listening to the lab mic. Let me swap back I'm going to kill a bit of the excitement in the swapping process. I'm just going to add a noise suppression to Uh, this channel actually already has noise suppression on it. So Um, that's basically it. You can just go and set your levels on the mixer And uh to do a mic swap now. I'm guessing there's probably a smarter way to do this that I haven't figured it out Using keyboard shortcuts. If you want the manual method, you just need to mute one channel and open the other itself I'm going to go now from The shotgun microphone straight over to the lab mic. So I'm just going to do mute here and open here And now you can see the levels that we're seeing are from the lab mic. You can probably hear Totally different microphone different sound to it Um, both these are both my ono microphones into the kind of 50 dollar range. So pretty budget stuff But um, it's great that you can Up like this on the mixer and uh quickly change to a different microphone Now you can use both microphones. I'm going to try dial the mixer down a bit on both channels Now as you can see I've opened both channels. You're actually listening to right now a mix of Lab mic and podcasting mic and you just play around have a bit of fun with it I'm going to give a bit of uh boost on the uh podcasting mic and just take a little bit of sound from the lab mic and now I'm going to do the opposite a little bit of sound from the Uh condenser and now the majority of sound that you're listening to is coming from the um podcasting mic now I don't know. I don't know enough about sound uh to know if uh using those two that kind of a microphone array Mixed together is something that you'd ever do in a setting like this talking head vlogging But um, it's cool that you have the tech at least to do it So that's it guys to recap if you want to use two or more microphones in ob s studio Well, basically you just add them as input devices and then you go and change to the device you want Definitely worth making sure that you're labeling the inputs properly. So you know exactly what's what Um, and then one way I'm sure there's a better way but one way of mixing up the microphone is just to basically go into the mixer and uh with a couple of clicks of the mouse you can Just swap between the microphone input now you're listening to the lab mic And now you're back to the shotgun microphone. I actually think when I listened to this last I preferred the lab So we will uh end with the lavalier microphone Hope this video was useful If you'd like to get more video content for me, then please feel free to subscribe to this youtube channel Thank you very much for watching