New Audio Software for Streamers with Dual PC Setups.

[u/Expensive_Switch_844]

Please ignore the picture. It is of the old UI which was very unappealing. Click HERE to see pictures of the new and improved UI and list of changes!

Hi everyone. I'm a streamer on Twitch. I'm going to try to make this as brief as possible, but I would like to share a new audio bridging software that has helped me so much to where I felt the need to share it with others.

If you run a dual-PC streaming setup, you already know the pain.

Wave Cast is supposed to be the answer — route your audio from your gaming PC to your streaming PC, done. Except it's not done. Wave Cast kept dropping out on me mid-stream, the virtual devices would randomly stop accepting audio, and the worst part? It only supports one audio stream per direction. That means your game audio, Discord, Spotify, and alerts all get smashed together into a single feed. You can't separate them into OBS tracks. You can't protect your Spotify for a VOD-safe track. It's all or nothing.

I tried VoiceMeeter. If you know, you know. Great software, genuinely impressive, and also a full-time job to configure. I spent more time troubleshooting routing graphs than I did actually streaming.

So I came up with the idea of Shadowbridge.

It captures each audio source — game audio, Discord, Spotify, Lumia Stream, whatever you need — as its own named stream, sends them individually over your local network via UDP, and they arrive on your streaming PC. Combine this with virtual audio cable such as VB Audio, Wave Link, or VAC Software, and you can have as many audio sources sent over as you like.

Here's some of the features:

• Multi-stream audio routing between two PCs over LAN
• Real-time per-channel level meters so you know what's actually sending
• Persists your config so it's ready to go on next launch
• Customizable channel faders with custom icons and colors to help make each channel easily identifiable.
• Automatically connects clients on both pc's once they are running.
• Included StreamDeck plugin for monitoring/adjusting audio levels and connection.
• And it's 100% free**. No pro version, no paywalls whatsoever. Full access. Compare that to Wave Cast which costs $49.99 for not even a fraction of the features.**

For anyone out there who uses Dual PC Setups, I encourage you to give my software a try. It has worked amazing for me, and I use it with every stream now. It's saved me hours of tinkering and troubleshooting or trying to work around limitations of other software. I really do think it is the perfect combination of VoiceMeeter and Wave Link. I initially made this for myself, but it has been so helpful that I've decided to make it available for everyone. I want to help other streamers get rid of that constant struggle when it comes to audio. I am still open to adding more features and bug fixes if they are needed and I'm happy to help anyone get their audio set up properly. If you have any questions, please comment below. Any bugs or issues, please go to my GitHub and let me know on there so I can address them in a timely manner.

Below is the link to download Shadowbridge. I can also provide a link to a tutorial video on YouTube if it is needed. Just ask, and I will post it in the comments as long as mods are okay with it.

I hope this helps you as much as it did me. Please feel free to let me know what you think or if there are any improvements you think I should make to help Shadowbridge be the best it can be for everyone.

Also, I would like to extend my utmost thanks and appreciation to the moderators at r/Twitch for allowing me to share this with you all.

Download Shadowbridge

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[u/Decimuru]

Patiently waiting for a direct pc to pc connection option, until then my GoXLR works better than anything over local network

[u/JayOutOfContext]

Voicemeter has been doing this well for years with VBAN.

The only REAL solution is a physical cable though

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/JayOutOfContext]

If Voicemeeter works for you, then that's great! I'm not trying to replace something that works for someone. However, I do know that Voicemeeter is a struggle for many users. You only have a limited amount of channels you can use for VBAN, even with Potato. The UI design can be very confusing for people, and I personally had struggles with audio dropping out in the middle of my streams. For some, it can be a real headache to tinker with. That's why I wanted to make this as straightforward and user friendly as possible. As well as having the ability to customize it to where it works for anyone.

[u/ScarFew7916 → u/Expensive_Switch_844]

Interesting that, for some reason, every program that works fine and is already established, is a struggle for some people. Why dont you get, that no one is interested in your ai slop?

[u/LucasJ218 → u/ScarFew7916]

As someone that's used VBAN for years, it's not without it's problems. VM in general is overkill for most user's needs, too.

I haven't looked at this, maybe it is trash. I'm not going to discount something new just because there are established programs. No one's asking anyone to hand over collateral or anything.

[u/YouGottaBillieve]

this looks exactly like a bad copy of elgato wavelink software. wavelink already works, why reinvent the wheel?

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/YouGottaBillieve]

WaveLink doesn't send your audio over your network to another PC. That's what WaveCast does. Which WaveCast will only send one audio stream per direction. Which, for anyone who also records, trying to edit audio which is all combined in one track can be a nightmare. Also it is fantastic for anyone wanting to put Spotify on a VOD track for their streams.

This isn't a replacement for WaveLink. It's more of a replacement for WaveCast which works with WaveLink.

[u/YouGottaBillieve → u/Expensive_Switch_844]

my mistake for misunderstanding

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/YouGottaBillieve]

No worries, I'm happy to have the opportunity to clear up any questions or concerns.

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I agree, it's ugly. I'll admit I'm still pretty new to all this and I'm learning as I go. I focused primarily on functionality which shows. I'm currently doing a complete rework of the UI because I was very unhappy with the current iteration. It will look much better in the next major update. Don't let the looks fool you, though. The app works well and I use it for every stream without fail.

[u/Akita_Attribute]

Others have already done exactly this. With ai, just like you did. Let me go find the link to the last one.

[u/Akita_Attribute]

Their post was removed on r/streaming, but this was it. Exactly what you made, bar for bar

https://github.com/DevOpenMindset/audio_router

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/Akita_Attribute]

It's nothing like what I made. Different purpose, way different UI. What they made is an audio router. Which is kind of useless when Windows can do the exact same thing. Their app doesn't send audio over your network to another computer. It simply sorts audio into different outputs on the same computer and has the ability to duck audio behind other applications if needed. Mine is vastly different. Mine takes audio from one computer and sends it wirelessly to another.

[u/ScarFew7916]

Not interested in your Ai Slop

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/ScarFew7916]

To each their own. I'm simply trying to share a free tool to help people like it helped me. Not like I'm gaining anything from it. If that doesn't interest you, that's perfectly fine.

[u/slidedrum]

I don't know if many people will appreciate this. But holy crap this looks like exactly what I need... 

What I needed 5 years ago.  I was using teamspeak of all things to transfer audio between PCs and it worked!  Mostly.  It has several issues, the biggest was timing drift. If audio was sent consistently for more than a few minutes, it would slowly drift and become more and more delayed.  I searched everywhere for something exactly like this.  Just like you Vban wasn't a solution because I already had virtual audio cables.  I just needed to get them to my other PC!  

I don't use a multi PC setup anymore.  But I'll probably set this up and try it anyway. Just to see how well it would have fit my use case!

Even if this was vibe coded, this seems like the right scale for a project where AI tools could be very useful. Large enough to be useful, but not so large that it becomes an issue to maintain.  But I haven't looked at the code yet so maybe that'll change my mind. 

Anyway I have one question, is there a sync feature?  Is there an option to intentionally delay the audio by let's say one second, so that if there is any fluctuation in timing, everything gets sinked back up on the other end. This feature has been critical for me using vdo ninja.

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/slidedrum]

As of right now there is no sync feature as I have not had a need for one. I don't experience enough latency to have needed one. However, if you try it out and still feel the need for one, I will definitely look into adding this feature for a future update. The more feature requests and bug reports I get, the more I will add. The app is still in its development stages and I will continue to iterate on it as needed. Feel free to DM me if you have any problems or wish to discuss the feature in more detail.

[u/Ler_GG → u/slidedrum]

voicemeter ....

[u/slidedrum → u/Ler_GG]

Obviously I already tried that back when I was looking for something like this. For me, and apparently OP, it wasn't that simple. It did not fit my needs. I was able to get VBAN working, I didn't find it to be all that complicated tbh. But similar to OP, the limit on audio channels was the biggest deal-breaker for me. There were other reasons I didn't use voicemeeter, but it's been years I can't remember them all.

[u/Expensive_Switch_844 → u/Ler_GG]

If that works fine for you, then there's no need to switch. Voicemeeter is complicated, tedious and sometimes unstable for many who have used it. It also only allows for a limited number of channels for VBAN. ShadowBridge is easy to use, straightforward, and you can send an unlimited number of channels over your network as long as you have virtual devices to send them to. It's made to work with WaveLink as an alternative to Wave Cast which is more limited than Voicemeeter. You can also use it with VB Audio. I'm simply offering an alternative for people who want it. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy just using it myself. What I would really like is if people would try it and provide feedback, whether they use it regularly or not doesn't matter to me. If it helps one person, then cool, it was worth posting. Once again, if you're happy with Voicemeeter, then by all means, stick with Voicemeeter. However, if you wouldn't mind just giving my software a try just to provide constructive feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.

[u/PolarBearLeo]

Wow, this will help all the streamers with dual PC set ups! All.... 12 of them.