Uncheck “Drift Correction” for all devices if selected.Note: If you are planning on using a bluetooth headset and you are planning on using its built in microphone read the “known problems” section Select any other appropriate output devices from this list for your setup, they will be your “pass through” so you can hear what OBS is capturing.Select “iShowU Audio Capture” as one of the audio devices.Click the “master device” dropdown in the top center of the dialog and select “iShowU Audio Capture”.You will be presented with another dialog box that looks something like below, note the arrows and run through the steps after the picture.Click the little “+” in the bottom left hand corner of the dialog box and select “Create Multi-Output Device”.Hit command + space to bring up the system spotlight and search for “Audio MIDI”.This will allow us to capture desktop audio, while also hearing that audio as well. With IShowUAudio installed, the next step is to configure an audio device. Once the installation is complete, restart your computer.Note: If you are not prompted during install, then hit “command + space” to bring up spotlight and search for “Security & Privacy”, you should see an image similar to the above.įor more info check Shinywhitebox’s documentation here. When installing IShowU Audio you will need to give IShowU Audio permissions (read below if you are not prompted during install):.Install IShowUAudio, you should be presented on a screen that looks like below, for macOS Mojave, or later click the button to the right and click the download button on the following page.I’m following the advice from this YouTube video. Additionally I have asked some colleagues to run through these steps, and they have done so successfully, but their computers and mine are setup similarly to this:įor reasons, capturing desktop audio isn’t an intrinsic feature in macOS, so you will need to download a third party tool to do this. This article assumes you have OBS and Zoom already installed on your system. This article is a step-by-step guide for capturing desktop audio and also audio from a zoom call in OBS.

For macOS users it is surprisingly difficult to capture desktop and zoom audio. In the push to go digital, many have turned to two popular tools OBS and Zoom for handling livestreams. We have done that with the Kansas City Java Users Group I help organize, I have also seen similar trends from fellow user group and event organizers. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in person events like meetups and conferences have gone digital.

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