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January 29, 2021 by Colin The Virtual DM Leave a Comment

How to Add Your Voice, Sound FX, and Music to Discord and Zoom

Being able to add your voice, sound FX, and music to Discord and Zoom for your virtual tabletop sessions help you to immerse your players in their current game environment. Whether they are walking through a crowded city street, climbing through a desolate mountain range, or crawling through a deep, dark dungeon, you can create the perfect audio environment to pull them deeper into the moment… maybe even scare the pants off them once in a while.

Topics Covered In The Video

In this episode of The Virtual DM, I am going to show you how you can create an audio setup on your PC that will allow you to mix your voice, sound FX, and music together for use on Discord, Zoom or really any communications program you use for your virtual table sessions. Here is what I will cover:

00:00​ – 00:34​ – Introduction

00:34​ – 02:24​ – Downloading and Installing Voicemeeter Banana and Virtual Audio Cable

02:24​ – 05:38​ – Review of Voicemeeter Banana

05:38​ – 09:36​ – Configuring Window Audio Defaults

09:36​ – 16:18​ – Configuring Voicemeeter Banana

16:18​ – 21:25​ – Adding Sound FX and Music

21:25​ – 26:38​ – Configuring Discord and Zoom

26:38​ – 27:51​ – Important Note About Voicemeeter Banana and Default Sound

27:51​ – 28:43​ – Closing

Links Mentioned In The Video

Here are links to the websites that were mentioned in this video.

VB-Audio Software – https://vb-audio.com​

Tabletop Audio – https://tabletopaudio.com​

Ambient-Mixer – https://ambient-mixer.com​

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Additional Content On This Topic

You can find additional content on this topic at the following links.

How to Play Music and Sound Effects on Discord – https://thevirtualdm.com/how-to-play-music-and-sound-effects-on-discord/​

Add Music and Sound Effects to Your RPG Virtual Tabletop Sessions – https://thevirtualdm.com/add-music-and-sound-effects-to-your-rpg-virtual-tabletop-sessions/​

What setup do you use to get your voice, sound FX and music into your virtual tabletop sessions?  Let me know in the comments.  Thanks for reading.

Filed Under: Music and Sound Effects Tagged With: Ambient Mixer, Tabletop Audio, Voicemeeter

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