Capture Party Chat and Game Chat with a Capture Card

Xbox Series X|S

1. Settings → General → Volume & audio output.
2. Set Party chat output to Headset & speakers. Party chat now goes to your headset and over HDMI to the capture card.

This doesn't cover in-game or lobby chat: Xbox only sends that to the headset. To capture it you need a cable that splits the controller's headset audio to the card's analog input (such as Elgato Chat Link Pro) or a headset with a stream output.

PS5

When a headset is plugged into a PS5 controller, the console moves all audio to the headset and the capture card gets nothing. Your options:

• Headset on the PC instead: plug the headset into your computer and listen to the game through OBS (Audio Monitoring). Game audio stays on HDMI; your own mic goes into OBS. You won't capture other players' voices this way unless party chat runs on the PC (Discord).
• Splitter cable: Elgato Chat Link Pro plugs into the controller, your headset plugs into it, and a third plug goes to the card's analog input (or the PC's line-in, not the mic port). In OBS, set the capture source to use that input.

Nintendo Switch and Switch 2

A headset in the console's 3.5 mm jack takes the audio off HDMI too. Use the same splitter approach, and set the Switch's audio output to stereo rather than surround.

Tell people you're recording

Let your party know chat is going out on stream.