Sonar for streamers helps you to bring the best sound experience for you and your audience.
Let’s run through the Mixer’s elements :
Master
The master channel contains the sound mix of all your other channels (game, chat, media, aux, and mic). This is where you control the overall sound level for you and your audience.
- Personal (headphone icon): This is for the audio sent to your headset or speakers.
- Stream (stream icon): This is what your audience is going to hear.
You can change the audio levels with the sliders. You can completely mute your personal mix (your sound mix) and your stream mix (audience’s sound mix).
Ear (ear icon): This is to hear the audio your audience is hearing.
- You can change the audio levels with the sliders.
- You can also mute both personal and stream mix as well.
- Set your headset or speakers for the personal mix output.
- The stream (audience) mix output is the one you will need for your streaming software.
You can set your mic input and its level under the mic table.
Please note, You can only link one microphone to your stream.
Channels (Game, Chat, Media, Aux, Mic)
You can control individually the volume level of each channel.
In the settings panel of the channels (cog icon) you can decide to include the audio in your personal mix and or your stream mix.
If you’d like to mute something temporarily you can use simply the mute button.
You can refine the sound quality of each channel in their tabs.
Available channels and their general use:
Master
Controls the sound mix of all channels.
Game (output)
Pew pew sounds go here.
Chat (output)
Chatting software like discord, slack or teams goes here
Media (output)
Any music/media programs go here for example spotify or iTunes music.
Aux (output)
Any other sound can go here (browser, system, alerts, notifications…)
Mic (input)
A channel for your silky voice through your microphone.
Each channel has a settings panel.
You can verify your sound format.
You can decide if the channel should be included in your personal mix and/ or your stream mix.
You can manually route sound to your channels.
You can set up shortcuts for each channel for personal and/or stream separately.
To route sound to your channels, make sure the app you’d like to route is open and running / playing sound.
Click on the ‘App to device routing’ button.
This will open Windows Volume mixer.
Pick the channel’s name you’re configurating as the output for the software.
You can refine the sound quality of each channel in their tabs.