Needing help with setting up a mixer to PC.

Akooks

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This Christmas, I'm considering purchasing a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer (http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-802-Premium-8-Input-Preamps/dp/B000J5XS3C/ref=sr_1_1?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1448127692&sr=1-1&keywords=mixer) and an AudioTechnica AT2020 XLR microphone. I already know how to set up the PC to the mixer to get sound in and out of the mixer, but there's one thing I cant seem to find out. A livestreamer I watch mixes all of his audio (game sounds, music, mic) on one mixer. On the stream, you can hear all of this audio. But anytime hes in a TeamSpeak or Skype call, the people on the other end of the call can only hear his microphone, which is still plugged into the mixer, but the stream can hear all of the audio. How does he manage to split just the microphone off to those communication applications, while keeping all audio on the stream?
 
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Depends on the mixer. A good mixer with multi inputs and outputs like a presonus firewire mixer would let you do all kinds of routing and have say 8 outputs sent back to the PC, so for skype he could route the mic to output#1 and select that as his input for skype, but for the streaming, he could also do routing in the mixer to add the mic to the other sounds over output#2 and use that as the input for OBS or whatever.

That mixer isn't going to give you that kind of flexibility.
Depends on the mixer. A good mixer with multi inputs and outputs like a presonus firewire mixer would let you do all kinds of routing and have say 8 outputs sent back to the PC, so for skype he could route the mic to output#1 and select that as his input for skype, but for the streaming, he could also do routing in the mixer to add the mic to the other sounds over output#2 and use that as the input for OBS or whatever.

That mixer isn't going to give you that kind of flexibility.
 
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Akooks

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Wait, so he's using this mixer (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036ECH1M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0036ECH1M&linkCode=as2&tag=sevagami0d-20). Does this one have the capabilities that you listed?
 
Could be done, but seems overkill for not using most of the channels. I don't stream, so I'm not that versed in how the software works in terms of what they can capture. Maybe you could ask them in their stream or check out the OBS forums as OBS seems one of the more popular.

Since that mixer has a USB input for a stereo output though, what I think they are doing is this. Running their mic through there and using the RCA outputs into their sound card. Then with OBS they can mix it in with their game sounds. The USB output basically gives them another mic input on their PC, but this one only has the mic on it, so they could tell skype/teamspeak to only use that input rather than the soundcard.

Would be one way I could see, but again, not a streaming guy. lol.