# Set up audio routing for streaming, podcasting, or calls

A clear routing plan and setup steps so your mic, music, game, and call audio go exactly where you want, with no echo.

- Topic: Content & Social Media
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Fill-in Template, Step-by-step
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/set-up-audio-routing-for-streaming-podcasting-or-calls

## Prompt

```text
Help me set up audio routing on my computer for streaming, recording, or calls.

**Operating system:** [Windows / macOS / Linux - version]
**Hardware:** [microphone, audio interface or mixer, headphones, speakers]
**Apps involved:** [e.g. OBS, Discord, Zoom, a game, Spotify, a DAW]
**What I want:** [e.g. "stream hears my mic, game, and music; Discord hears only my mic; I hear everything; music isn't in recordings"]
**Current problem:** [e.g. echo, viewers can't hear game audio, Discord picks up music, latency, audio drifts out of sync]
**Comfort level:** [beginner / comfortable with settings / happy with scripts]

Give me:
1. **A routing diagram in text:** every source, every virtual or physical output, and every destination (Source -> Bus -> Destination), and who hears what.
2. **Tools for my OS:** the built-in options first, then well-known free tools for virtual audio devices or mixing, with why each is needed. If something costs money, say so.
3. **Step-by-step setup:** device settings, sample rate matching across devices, and each app's input/output settings.
4. **Tests** to confirm each path works, including a short test recording.
5. **Troubleshooting table:** Symptom | Likely cause | Fix, covering echo and feedback loops, doubled audio, crackling, latency, and devices resetting after a restart or update.
6. **Optional automation:** how to save and restore the setup, or switch between profiles (streaming vs. calls), with a simple script if my OS supports it.

Keep it as simple as possible for my goal; don't add virtual devices I don't need.
```

## What to fill in

- Windows / macOS / Linux - version
- microphone, audio interface or mixer, headphones, speakers
- e.g. OBS, Discord, Zoom, a game, Spotify, a DAW
- beginner / comfortable with settings / happy with scripts

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