OBS/RTMP Broadcasting
For the highest quality broadcast and the most configuration options, we recommend using OBS Studio or another external encoder application. To connect your audio setup to OBS, you can either use sound forwarding software or a connected audio interface. A capture card is recommended for multi-cam setups.
If you are just looking to set up OBS without any additional audio configuration, please check out our OBS setup guide.
OBS with sound forwarding software from DAW
Sound forwarding software such as Soundflower (Mac) and the OBS ASIO VST (Windows) are required in order to forward the sound from your DAW to OBS.
On Windows, OBS offers an ASIO VST plugin that makes sound forwarding simple. Please check out our detailed guide on the OBS ASIO VST plugin setup.
On Mac, you will need to download a third-party sound forwarding driver. For Mac OS versions 10.9 and up, we recommend Blackhole. Please check out our guide on using a DAW with OBS on Mac to set Blackhole up.
OBS & Capture Card
A capture card is an internal and external video capture device that encodes your desktop video and audio. Like a webcam, a capture card may be added to OBS as a Video Capture Device.
Other External Encoder Options
You can use any External Encoder to stream on Volume as long as you are able to set up a custom RTMP stream. If you prefer to use another external encoder, you can find information for how to set up your stream in our RTMP info support guide. Some examples of other popular external encoders are: