Blue Jay Sound Effect

[Kenneth]

Asyou can probably guess, I use Discord as my voice chat of choice for my RPG virtual tabletop sessions. I am happy with the results, and more importantly, my group is happy with the results as well.

To get the various sources that I use routed to the correct inputs on the audio mixer requires the use of virtual audio cables. I have been using the Voicemeeter VB-Cables for some time, but I have recently added in the Muzychenko Virtual Audio Cables. The Muxychenko Virtual Audio Cables are pretty much the grandfather of all virtual audio cables, so the technology is very solid. These virtual audio cables allow you to use up to 256 cables which makes it very easy to configure different applications to use a different virtual audio cable.

The final part of this setup is Discord itself. I use Discord because it is an easy product to understand, has a great support community, and gives me easy access to other Dungeons and Dragons and RPG Virtual Tabletop communities on their servers. I hear lots of great things about other voice chat options such as Team Speak, Mumble, and Overtone, but I am going to stick with Discord. It is a bonus that they have now nicely integrated video chat as well.

My main RPG virtual tabletop is Fantasy Grounds, and I REALLY love it. Unfortunately, Fantasy Grounds does not have a building audio player like Roll20 or Astral. Luckily, there are some great options to work around this, and I believe that the end product is even better. I have had great success in using my above-mentioned setup so far. I am a huge fan of how using music and sound effects can help to pull your players into the moment and the story. But it must be done right. The technology must add to the experience instead of getting in the way. I have never felt that this current setup has ever done that.

EDIT: I now have a video available that explains step-by-step how to get the above setup working on your PC. I have changed my configuration a little since this article. I will update the article as soon as I can. In the meantime, check out How to Add Your Voice, Sound FX and Music to Discord and Zoom.

I was interested in adding some ambiance to my weekly sessions. I appreciate the post, which at least gets me pointed in the right direction to give it a go! I am hoping to try it out tonight with Monster of the Week.

The tool that I use to easily trigger MP3 sound FX is called Jingle Pallette. Very simple to set up and use. I use this on a computer with a touch screen that makes it even more convenient. You can download it at

To get it into Discord along with your voice is a little trickier. I created a video that explains the way that I do it. You can access it at -to-add-your-voice-sound-fx-and-music-to-discord-and-zoom/

Thanks for the info. I have successfully set up voice meeter in hopes that the sound quality issues would improve on discord. Sadly, it has not. When I play music on my ipad into discord, the sound is robotic, distorted, and cuts in and out. Any thoughts on how to improve this?

Frank, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the topic. Using a bot on Discord is definitely an option if you are only looking to add music or ambiance from the sources you mentioned. The setup that I have detailed is more about having the ability to create customized ambiance and sound effects on demand during your gameplay.

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Just call them by their name! Sound is ... well ... sound! LX is an abbreviation of electrics (via 'elecs'). Effects gets shortened to FX. Sound ... well, it's a nice easy one-syllable word, so why shorten it? Flys ... same thing. Relevant post from a while back. Topic which might also be relevant.

When writing sound cues or something refering to the sound department, I use SD. I have been known to also call sound "essdy" over cans as it rolls right off the tongue, just like "elecs", but 9 shows out of 10 I use sound.

Have to jump in here - as far as I'm aware, SFX is actually more commonly used to denote SPECIAL effects (FX), not SOUND FX. This covers anything not directly attributable to either stage, LX, flies, video, etc - ie doesn't come under a specific department, maybe. In some cases that COULD be a pyro, or a visual stunt that isn't controlled by a specific controller...

The first thing to understand is that sound effects and sound design are not mutually exclusive. The category of sound effects can include designed sounds, and the practice of sound design involves creating and using sound effects. Confused yet? To conceptualize the relationship between the two, consider the difference between illustration and graphic design.

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