{"id":34198,"date":"2024-07-22T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T08:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioking.com\/blog\/?p=34198"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T08:32:27","slug":"virtual-audio-cables-radio-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioking.com\/blog\/virtual-audio-cables-radio-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Use virtual audio cables for radio broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Virtual audio cables (VACs) allow you to broadcast audio from your apps directly to your online radio stream. By using virtual cables, you avoid having to purchase expensive hardware. Let’s take a look at the various solutions and how to use them for radio broadcasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/ How do virtual audio cables work?
<\/em><\/mark><\/a>2\/ How to use VACs for online radio
<\/em><\/mark><\/a>3\/ Setting up your virtual audio cables
<\/em><\/mark><\/a>4\/ What about virtual mixers?<\/em><\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

How do virtual audio cables work?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

A virtual audio cable essentially allows you to take the audio from a specific app to another<\/strong> without having to use any physical cables. Put simply, with a physical cable, the information travels from an in point through to an endpoint. A virtual cable mimics this function, with one slight difference. VACs are able to loop your audio that arrives to the endpoint, back to the in point. This allows various applications to use the VAC as their audio input!<\/p>\n\n\n

How to use VACs for online radio<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

VACs can be incredibly useful for radio hosts, as they allow you to send audio from various applications to other ones. This means that they can then be mixed together and broadcast<\/strong> to an online stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a radio host, you may want to use audio sources from different applications and\/or devices to use in your shows. This could be songs from Apple Music, or even listener calls from Skype for example. A virtual audio cable allows you to use this audio and send it to your online radio stream!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can even take it a step further and use a virtual mixer to combine the various audio sources from one central place. This replicates the function of a physical mixing desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, you can then connect a microphone to your computer and route the audio to your virtual mixer<\/strong> in order to mix it with the audio coming from your apps.<\/p>\n\n\n

Setting up your virtual audio cables<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Now let’s take a look at how to set up your virtual audio cable. Firstly, you’ll need to download your VAC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Download a VAC here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

 Setup for MacOS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Once you’ve downloaded your virtual audio cable, the first step is creating a multi-output device. This simply ensures that your audio can be heard through headphones or speakers. Bear in mind that your VAC needs 2 different outputs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n