There are many popular microphones for this application, and my microphone of choice is the Shure SM7B. Optionally and additionally, you may want to record your voice on top of your tutorials, for which you need a Microphone, webcam/camera and an Audio Interface. With these, you already have the bare minimum to do tutorials. Download it here.Ī popular option for PC is Voicemeeter Input by VB Audio.

A Virtual Audio interface is a piece of software with a number of virtual inputs and outputs that you can use to route audio from different programs throughout your system.įor Mac, I'd recommend downloading Blackhole 16ch. There are many ways of routing audio to OBS, but my favourite way for DAWs is to get a Virtual Audio Interface/Driver. I use OBS, which is free and probably the most popular audio/video capturing software out there. Since you're thinking of doing tutorials, I'll assume you have that.

To make tutorials, you're gonna need a few things (and some more optional software, gear and hardware).įirstly, you need a DAW obviously. We'll start by how to set up your DAW and OBS to capture audio and in future episodes I'll also show you how I automate a large chunk of my process so that I can bang out tutorials quickly and with minimal post-production editing necessary! So in this series I want to focus on Audio instead. This is the first episode of a new series I'm starting on How to make audio tutorials! There's frankly a ton of these OBS tutorials on YouTube, but they mostly cover video, and glaze over audio completely, which is interesting because in the audio stream is where I've seen a lot of weirdness from OBS. How to do Audio Tutorials - Episode 1: Setting up your DAW & OBS

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