Hi! My name is Paraj and I’m a Bangalore, based guitarist, singer-songwriter, percussionist and more. This document makes it easy for you to get professional quality audio on your Clubhouse streams. If this works for you, I’d love it if you could follow me and listen to/share my music across all platforms.

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How to get studio quality audio in your Clubhouse streams

If you’re a guitarist/singer-songwriter with an acoustic/elec guitar + vocals setup, this is what you’ll need: (If you’re a keyboard player/MIDI instrumentalist, the principle is more or less the same.)

Hardware: An audio interface, a couple of mics (preferably dynamic for vocals and a condenser for guitar), a pair of monitoring headphones, a computer, and well.. patience, because this may take time.

Software: An android emulator like Bluestacks, a virtual audio routing software like Clubhouse and a DAW like Logic Pro X/Cubase/Ableton.

DAW Settings

1. Set up your session on your DAW with delay, compression, reverb and limiter. 2. Mix it to a decently balanced level. 3. In your DAW, select both input and output as your interface and set it to low latency mode.

BlueStacks Settings

1. Download and install BlueStacks. 2. Run BlueStacks and sign into your Google Account on it. 3. Use the Play Store button in BlueStacks to search for Clubhouse and install it. 4. Log in to Clubhouse using your mobile number. Loopback & System Audio Settings

1. Download Loopback (You can easily find a version that’s not paid) 2. Use Loopback to create a virtual audio device (column in the centre: refer diagram) 3. Click on the + symbol next to Sources and add your DAW and BlueStacks (Or Clubdeck for method #2) 4. Route both your DAW and BlueStacks into it, drawing lines and connecting the L to L and R to R 5. Take the output from the virtual device (name it CH Audio) and connect it to your interface on the right side (All this is inside Loopback, btw) 6. Go to your system audio settings and select input device as CH Audio and output as interface 7. Start a room, make sure your mic is unmuted and speak/play something. If you hear yourself and see moving circles around your name, then it means that your setup is working. 8. Ask a friend to join the room and test your sound and give you feedback on your sound and tweak accordingly.

Here’s a routing diagram: (Replace Clubdeck with BlueStacks, for method #1) Method #2: Alternatively, you can also try using Clubdeck, if the previous method doesn’t work for you. The routing on Loopback remains the same, with the only difference being that there are a couple of different settings on the Clubdeck app.

Clubdeck And Loopback Settings

9. Download Clubdeck (A desktop emulator for Clubhouse) 10. Download Loopback (You can easily find a version that’s not paid) 11. Use Loopback to create a virtual audio device (column in the centre: refer diagram) 12. Route both DAW and Clubdeck into it, by drawing lines and connecting the L to L and R to R 13. Take the output from the virtual device (name it CH Audio) and connect it to your interface on the right side (All this is inside Loopback, btw) 14. Run Clubdeck and sign in. 15. Start a room and choose input/mic as CH Audio and output as your interface. 16. Ask a friend to join the room and test your sound and give you feedback on your sound and tweak accordingly