How to Record Discord Audio with OBS [Guide& Suggestion]

Summary: As we all know OBS and Discord are two popular applications widely used by game professionals. Now this post talks about two tools work in combination about how to record Discord audio with OBS.

Discord is a great platform for gamers and other communities to gather together and chat, offering text and voice communication service for free. You can invite people to join the conversation through a simple link and then begin your pleasant audio talking. However, when you want to record Discord audio for sharing or future reference, you may realize that Discord doesn’t offer an option to record these audio tracks.
But this goal can come true by using third-party solutions like OBS. Many gamers are apt to utilize this open source screen recorder for onscreen recording projects. Consequently, it’s also competent for working well with Discord activities and here let’s focus on how to record Discord audio with OBS.
Before we begin, one thing needs your attention. You should be aware that in many locations around the world, it’s illegal to record other people’s action without permission. Therefore, please make sure that you have the permission of all parties involved in a Discord conversation before you use the methods listed here.

How to Record Discord Audio with OBS

OBS provides free yet powerful screen recording service for Windows, Mac and Linux users. By virtue of OBS, you can capture gamplay, webcam, audio and record multiple monitors at once for free. Besides, it’s a screen recorder with no watermark and time limit. Even the main interface looks complicated and a little troublesome, you can follow the guidance below to easily get the right way.

OBS workflow to record Discord audio:
Step 1: Download and install OBS from the official website. You’ll need to make sure that you’ve properly configured your microphone settings in Discord to allow you to chat with others. If you don’t, you’ll find that you can’t record yourself chatting with other users.

Step 2: Open OBS software. To record Discord audio in OBS, you can press the plus icon (+) in the “Sources” area of the OBS window. From the drop-down menu, choose “Audio Output Capture” to select your desktop audio output for recording. A new interface will pop up allowing you to name the audio source as well as select the output device (for instance, your speaker, microphone or any external device). When the process is done, click “OK” to confirm.

For better settings parameter for video recording with OBS, you can refer to this post: Best OBS settings for recording
Step 3: Under the Audio Mixer panel, you can turn on both Audio Output Capture and Mic/Aux buttons to record your own speech along with any other chats. To begin recording, click the Start Recording icon under the Controls section in the bottom-right area of the OBS window.
Step 4: By default, OBS will record the audio as a blank video file in MKV file format. When it’s time to end recording, you can press Stop Recording and select File>Show Recordings to get the recorded file.

The dropdown of OBS is that you can’t record Discord audio as MP3 format and have no control over post-recording process. Therefore, we would like to offer an alternative way.

Alternative Way to Record Discord Audio as MP3 Format [Suggested]

Our suggestion to record Discord audio is using a flexible screen and audio recorder called RecMaster. As the all-in-one solution to screen recording, it gives you whole control over Discord recording like format, quality, audio output source and editing. You can easily save Discord audio as MP3 format or choose to capture gameplay images with Discord audio as MP4 format with high quality. Now let’s get around its work-process.

How to record Discord audio with RecMaster
Step1: Ensure that you’ve installed RecMaster on your computer. If not, quickly get one installation package from the links below and complete the whole process.

Step 2: Run RecMaster and choose one recording mode for you. Here we set Audio Only as our choice to capture Discord audio. If you want to video record screen with audio, you can change between Full Screen and Custom Area modes.

Step 3: Set up as you like. For Windows user, you can save Discord call as MP3/WAV format while for Mac user, you can film Discord audio as CAF and M4A formats. Both microphone voice and sound card audio can be captured simultaneously or separately.

Step 4: REC button is for starting recording. If you don’t want to launch Discord recording project by hand, you can preset task schedule tasks. When it’s time for over, you can tab the red button again to end.

Now you can share the Discord audio file with your friends. RecMaster is not only good at Discord audio but also YouTube music and online audio capture.

Final Word
Here we offer the guide about how to record Discord audio with OBS. It’s workable to save Discord audio as video format. However, if you like an easier way with pure audio recording function, we suggest you record with RecMaster.