Lastly, set your Desktop Audio device to be “Default”. You shouldn’t need to mess with the “Mic/AUX” one, but just in case, make sure it’s pointed to “Default” or “SteelSeries Sonar – Microphone”. You’ll now see it in the Audio Mixer box. Here, you want to set the Device up as “SteelSeries Sonar – Chat (SteelSeries Sonar Virtual Audio Device)”.

Go to the Scene you’re using and under the Source box, create a new source called “Discord”. Now comes OBS Studio which will require some bit of work. The output setting would be “SteelSeries Sonar – Chat”. Input settings should be “SteelSeries Sonar – Microphone”. Under the “User Settings”, go to the section marked “Voice & Video”. That’s pretty much all you have to play with on the SteelSeries GG app. For Microphone, also choose your headset or whatever microphone you’re using. For the Game and Chat playback selection, just choose the headset that you’re currently using.

From here, you’ll see a Mixar tab with the Game, Chat, and Microphone settings you’ll have to mess with. Once you enable that, you’ll see the Sonar section on the left pane that you can now click on. If you go to settings in the SteelSeries GG app, head to the General section and there you’ll see a toggle to Activate or Deactivate Sonar application. If you’re using a SteelSeries headset, there’s an even simpler solution using the SteelSeries GG software and Sonar.įirst up, you’ll need to set up your SteelSeries GG software with Sonar. I did a tutorial last year where we used VB-Audio VoiceMeeter Banana for that.

The only way to fix this is by using a third-party app that can separate those audio sources from each other. That’s because, by default, they’re all using the same channel. If you use OBS Studio or some other app to record your gameplay while also chatting on Discord, you may have discovered that you can’t exactly separate the Discord audio from your gameplay audio.

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