on the PC you can just capture everything natively with the free OBS software but on the mac it’s a little more difficult and you have to jump through a few hoops - it’s not the best way to do it really because it’s another potential link in the change that can go wrong.
to get this working the first thing you need to do is install the free ishowu capture software from shiny white box, they make some great software and you need to install this drive to capture system wide audio. once installed you can select that audio input in OBS.
from here on in it’s pretty plain sailing, all we need to do is to turn the output to ishowu and your input as microphone, at this stage you won’t be able to hear any system wide audio, for that i use another piece of software called sound source which allows me to use a ‘play thru’ to play back the audio through my headphones.
this is where it gets a bit confusing but once you understand it then it’s straight forward, we use the ishowu as an input, which means that all sound, effects and anything audio will be play into the capture, you can hear them back (music playing etc) by switching on output for headphones.
SOUNDSOURCE - https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource - $10
iSHOWU CAPTURE - free download
SOUNDSOURCE SETTINGS
- output set to ishowu (output)
- input is your microphone
- sound effects to ishowu
OPEN PLAY-THRU SETTINGS
- ishow u audio capture as the input
- output for headphones and then click start play-thru
adding another level of software to the mix obviously is problematic especially if the software fails. it’s another potential link in the chain for something to go wrong therefore if you can afford it i’d consider looking into a hardware box that you can feed your xlr audio and music into, especially because you can have multiple audio inputs in OBS.
