How to install, configure and use the virtual audio cable step by step

Have you ever wanted to listen to music  during meetings via the Zoom application, but that you can't? Did you need one application to listen to another, but Windows doesn't have an option for it? Don't worry, in this article we show you how to install, configure and use virtual audio cable step by step .

How does a virtual audio cable work?

A virtual audio cable, or VAC for its acronym in English, is a program or software that acts as if there is a cable between the audio ports on your computer. To understand it, imagine the headphone port and the microphone port. The headphone port allows anything ringing on the computer to ring in the real world.

The microphone port does the opposite, it listens to the real world for the save on computer . In this sense, the headphone port is the mouth and the microphone port is the ear.

Now imagine that there was a cable connecting the headphone port to the microphone port. This would make the computer listen.

Many of us need such a function, to that two applications on the computer listen to each other , but Windows does not offer this option. Therefore, an ACC is a program that meets this need.

How to install a virtual audio cable?

There are several such programs. Today we are going to talk about the simplest: VB Cable . Some programs that you can check out later to learn more about the topic are: VoiceMeeter and Virtual Audio Cable. The latter is one of the first to emerge and the one most associated with the term ACC.

We say VB-Cable is the easiest for several reasons which you will see later. As for its installation, just download it, extract it and double-click on each file.

• To download it, let's go with the bus VBCable in Google (Asegúrate que estés entrando en el sitio oficial, www.vb-audio.com) y presionar el botón Download that corresponds.
• Para extralo necesitarás WinRar u otro descompresor que soporte archivos ZIP. Its varios archivos, así que extráelo en una carpeta de ser posible.
• To install it, execute VBCABLE_Setup if you have a 32-bit system o VBCABLE_Setup_x64 if you are a 64-bit system. Es por ello que resulta muy important that sepas las diferencias between processors of 32 and 64 Bits.

How to configure Virtual Audio Cable?

If seguiste los pasos de arriba, tal vez te estés preguntando ¿Qué pasó? No hay ningún programa instalado y no puedo hacer más nada. Esto es normal, there is only VBCable no es un programa, sino un Driver package.

If no estás familiarizado con el término, a Driver is there that allows Windows to reconocate an external device, como una corneta o una impresora. Lo que acaba de hacer la instalación es crear dos nuevos drivers en tu sistema: Uno de entrada y uno de salida.

Ahora debes configurar tus applications para que utilicen el "Dispositivo" de salida como una corneta, y el de entrada como un micrófono. Hay dos formas de hacer esto, cambiando las global configurations y las individuales.

The modification global parameters is easier, but you might not hear anything and besides, you don't want all the apps to hang up, so it's better to change them individually:

Individual configurations

There is more to teaching you how to configure each application than this article can do. But you should know that the easiest and fastest thing is to learn how to change the method by entry and exit of each application.

Almost all group video calling apps (Skype, Zoom, Zello) and Music and Video (VLC, Windows Media Player) let you change these settings whenever you want. Just select CABLE input as an output device and CABLE output as an input device in each application that you want to communicate with others.

How to use a virtual audio cable?

If you have already followed all of the above steps, you are ready to use your VAC. To do this, simply open the app from the platform that you think is better for listening to music  and start playing it, your video call or recording app should already be listening to it. How simple!

There are a lot of things that we omit in this article, therefore, we always urge you to learn more, you never know when you will need it.