Getting Audio to Your DAW for Live Broadcast || DAW Mixing Live Broadcast Setup

Getting multichannel audio to your DAW for your church's live broadcast is hard. Then you've got to get the mix to the streaming computer AND monitor your mix in real-time. I'll walk you through the options you have for both getting audio to your DAW for live broadcast, and how to get the mix to your camera or streaming computer, including Audio Over IP for Live Stream output.

Disclaimer: I'm a nerd, but not an IT guy. Some of these options I've found can work, but I haven't found all the pitfalls and workarounds. If you're an IT guru, reach out in the comments or by email and let me know so we can test some of these things out for all the other Sound Ninjas out there.

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[SKINxSLAYER]

You definetly sound like you know what your talking about. I've always felt god wanted me running a mixer at a church. But am now only getting into mixing audio digitally and trying to learn how to record it... Keep these videos coming they help greatly

[aldoruizshow]

yay first time catching a premiere from the top! Thanks for all you do! God Bless

[CED.Dweller]

You’ve helped me learn AND made me determined to check out Strips Chicken the next time I visit Kansas City! Attaboy, Attaway!

[lfisher]

Nice video. Here is my setup if it helps anyone without needing to pull cables : Mixing the stream: In the tech both I have Allen & Heath SQ6 connected via USB to Tech Booth "TB" MacBook Pro running Logic Pro. From the streaming studio I remotely access Logic Pro and mix on the TB MacBook with L/R output routed back to SQ6. Stream audio is sent from SQ to ATEM switcher and Wireless transmitter (think wireless in-ear monitor). Monitoring Steam Audio: In the streaming studio the body back receiver output goes to powered speakers. Monitoring visually what is happening: iPhone with NDI Camera application captures stage and NDI viewer app on Stream Studio. For this to work well I recommend you use the campus intranet (not through the internet) for the remote access and NDI video. Depending on where your streaming studio is located your results will vary using the wireless transmitter to monitor audio.

[dwaynearthur]

Excellent Solutions!!! Will try, I’m fight this battle right now .

[thinklikeanant]

Currently using Blackhole to re route from Logic to OBS for live-streaming. It took a while to get a hang of it and it does have slight latency. Once it works though, it is worth the hustle it took to set it up. Also realised it is way easier to setup on another DAW like Studio One . Logic required one more step which took a lot of trial and error to figure out

[RevJorgeDiaz]

I think in time we'll use Dante. We currently have an X32 and are looking forward to purchasing the Luke Hendrickson template for our broadcast mix. What we currently use is a bus mix which gets sync to the video feed and then unto a Ray Encoder by Resi

[rubensahas]

Amazing video . There is an another way where we can send multi channel audio from one laptop/pc to another through ethernet with daw. It's a free vst plugin restream from reaper works mostly on all the DAW. it can send audio directly to OBS to. Hope this would help someone 😊

[aenbeats]

Can you explain AVB routing? We have Studiolive 32 at church and we want to mix our livestream using studio one and sent it back to the console.

[esotomusic]

I got the aggregate device set up to work for my church broadcast. I combined Dante with focusrite and it worked.

[zareff]

We got the x32 USB card to a system running Reaper located on another floor with a 30ft active usb cable. It gets the audio to the daw just fine, but to route it out for monitoring locally and to other stream PC or video switcher we run Reastream plugin either in the master or separate pre master bus. OBS supports vsts, so that's how it receives the audio by setting up Reastream as a receiver on it. Latency is negligible for us. We've even tested it over wifi and it seems fine.It's a temporary setup that works surprisingly well until we save enough for a Dante setup.

[michaelsteingard]

James. Using Dante Virtual sound card into a Daw in a remote room with protools. Using Loopback by Rogue Amoeba for routing local monitoring on the iMac. I was initially worried that this software solution for getting protools monitored locally would be unreliable, but it’s seemed stable for the past 6 months!

[florin]

Great video!
I have the system already set up, everithing its working great and I am so happy with the results.
I use via Dante, Logic Pro, WAVES plugins and Luke Hendrickson templete, but I have input delay. My question is how can I fix it or if you can recomand any plug in other than Logic Pro has?
Thank you!

[HaharuRecords]

Bro you have covered more solutions in 08:30 minutes that I can't handle in even one day...😁

[garryyoung]

Dante. We have it installed on our console. I am hoping one day in the future we will set this up.

[WayneWatson]

I use dante in and a usb sound card (which also has a headphone for monitoring) to the encoder (atem mini pro), on a mac

[EldRiCkVis]

So the idea is to send your mix to the computer to process it before sending it back to be placed online? I am new to this, but we are running our sound directly from our mixing board to the livestream using a fairly inexpensive audio interface from Behringer, the u-control uca222. This of course we do right next to FOH(not ideal). We have an X32 (with regular aes50 card) and are looking to improve our sound quality and have a dedicated room for the livestream mix. What is the difference between having to upgrade to Dante rather than just buying the aes50 usb interface from Klark Teknik?

[Nujola]

Does studio one let you use two audio interfaces one in and out

[jasonengle]

We use a aggregate audio output for our iMac. It has 4 channels; L/R to Bluetooth headphones, L/R to ProPresenter for livestream. My son set it up so would have to have him explain the details.

[theorignl]

James, are you still interested In experiencing the VB Audio stuff? I've worked in networking for several decades now(shh).