Livestream and record with Live Mixer for Sunday Keys

For installation and tutorial videos, see the Live Mixer resource page.

Stream from a phone

Use a TRS to TRRS cable from your audio interface's output to your phone (iPhones also need a headphone adapter). Your phone treats it as a microphone.

Record one mix and monitor another

Record a clean mix while hearing everything, including the click, in your monitors:

1. In MainStage > Settings (or Preferences) > Audio, set Recording to Output 1-2.
2. Send every channel strip you want recorded to Output 1-2.
3. Send the Metronome channel strip to Output 3-4.
4. On every channel strip going to Output 1-2, add a send to an unused bus (for example, Bus 13) and turn it all the way up.
5. Set that bus's output to Output 3-4.

Now Output 3-4 has everything, while you record only Output 1-2. To change a sound's level in your monitors without changing the recording, adjust its bus send.

Stream into Zoom

Simplest: set MainStage's output to your Mac's built-in output, then use Zoom's option to share your computer's sound. Monitor with headphones from your Mac.

With your audio interface: install BlackHole, a free virtual audio cable.

1. Create an aggregate device in Audio MIDI Setup that combines your audio interface and BlackHole, and choose it in MainStage.
2. Send all your sounds to the BlackHole outputs, and choose BlackHole as Zoom's microphone.
3. Add a send on each channel strip to an empty bus, turned all the way up, and set that bus's output to your audio interface. That's your monitor feed.

Want to add a mic? Add an audio channel strip in MainStage with your mic's input. If you get feedback, use headphones.