As long as “Internal Speakers” is the selected device on the Sound Effects tab of the Sound Preference Pane, you shouldn’t have to worry about system beeps being played in your stream audio, but I try to make it a point to put my Macbook Pro into “Do Not Disturb” before performing regardless as a matter of habit. Make sure you exit out of other noisy applications, or at least mute them. In the Sound Preference Pane, select BlackHole 16 for your active device on the Output tab (Note that this is going to send ALL your system audio to BlackHole for the time being, therefore to your livestream.

? I usually fuck up IKEA furniture for the same reason – priorities, dude. If money was no object and I wanted even more polish (and support) I’d probably spend the $99 on Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback to fill the same need but as it stands I’ve got it working for free with BlackHole with no issues and it only cost me a couple late nights of figuring it out that might have been avoided if I felt like reading more documentation. Luckily I found BlackHole, which feels like a more polished Soundflower (and it works with Catalina). I used to use Soundflower for the task of routing audio between applications before livestreaming was even a thing and “fast” 1.5 Mbps internet was $65- a month, so that was the first place I looked, however it’s not compatible with Catalina. In order to route audio between applications you need to use a virtual audio driver. As anyone who’s heard cell phone concert footage can attest, this is less than ideal for captuing loud music being played at fun volumes. Often the video is great but the audio sounds like garbage because the person is using the built-in mic in their laptop or phone as the audio input. Rekordbox is not super stable at the moment (it’s usable, but CPU and fan usage is insane and it usually crashes around an hour into a set) however there seems to be an aggressive number of recent updates so I hold out hope.Įveryone and their dog is livestreaming their DJ sets during quarantine.

Big Sur Update: I’ve tested and confirmed that, at least for me, Blackhole is still working with Rekordbox and OBS as expected.

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