Nov 14, 2015 Tutorial - How to record two (2) USB mics in Adobe Audition. This video outlines how to configure your recording software to use multiple USB microphones on. Is it possible with audition to record multiple inputs simultaneously? Use my PC microphone which is plugged in using a Tascam US-144 interface. I tried a couple of USB input devices and it worked fairly well but latency.
When you need to record face to face interview or two-people podcast, the bi-directional microphone comes in handy, but which is rare in the market. Then using two cardioid microphones is more viable method. The only problem is how you can make them work together while PC accepts only one of them as input. Today, we will give you step by step instruction to make multiple mics work on one single PC or laptop.
First of all, let’s go through the principle. We can’t change the fact that computer or software allows only one input source.
So what we do is to aggregate multiple inputs into one. We roughly categorize the situation into two, Windows and Mac (apologize for those who use the other kinds of system that we still haven’t found the valid and effect method for multiple mics recording). In this part, let’s talk about the setup on Mac. It can’t be any easier to set up multiple microphones with Apple computer.
Check out very USEFULL video below or continue follow our text instruction. 1.Open the “Audio MIDI Setup”, create your own “Aggregate Device” list and check the microphones you are going to use (of course you need to plug in the microphones and make sure they are recognized in the very first place). 2.Go on “Garageband”, check out the “Preference”, and you will want the “Audio Input” to be “Aggregate Device” that you have just created. 3.Delete all the existing tracks (just for finding your new tracks easily).
Click the plus button to add a first new track. A new menu pops up, just select an input you like.
Then create a second track and choose a different input from the fist one. Now two tracks (represents two microphones) are set and ready to go. 4.To make sure recording of two mics can pause separately, you need a recording button for both of them. Just click “Track”→”Track Header”→”Show record enable button”. And then click on the enable to buttons. When they flash red light, you’re good to go, hit the record button! Now, we will go through the methods for Windows.
One is to use VoiceMeeter Banana, which is as easy as the setup with Garageband on Mac but can allow 3 input at maximum, while the other is to aggregate mics by using ASIO4ALL which has no limitation on the number of input. Download Voice Meeter Banana: 1.Open Voice Meeter Banana, select microphones for different “Hardware Input”.
The same as how we did on Mac, make sure the mics you want to use are recognized. 2.Click on any recording program, under preferences, choose the Voice Meeter as input source. That’s it, incredibly easy. Surely you can do lots of edit on the Voice Meeter as well, but that’s not the main point of today’s topic.
The drawback is that you can’t have separate tracks for different microphones. The procedure of setup with ASIO4ALL is bit complex in this case. And it’s not compatible with all the audio programs. If you don’t need more than 3 inputs at a time, just use the method a. Download ASIO4ALL: 1.Open up recording software, go to preferences. Set your audio to ASIO and ASIO4All v2.
2.Open up settings of ASIO4ALL (you can find the ASIO4ALL driver on the right corner of computer). Inside the control panel, you want to click and activate the little power buttons besides your USB mics. 3.You need to select mics as left and right or different numbers of channels.) 4.Start a new multi-track. On tracks, use the input drop-down menus to select the input created at last step. 5.Hit the record, that’s you up and running with multiple mics at the same time. Check out the links below for further reference on Adobe Audition and Ableton Live.
Setup up on Adobe Audition.
Multiple Yeti Microphones May 09 2014 A few months ago, for recording. Here’s what I said about our microphone setup: Our setup is pretty simple: a laptop, a Yeti microphone, and the three of us huddled around it. I have some wild idea that someday we’ll each have our own mic and be sitting in real sound booths, like an honest-to-god radio show, but we haven’t reached that level of crazy yet.
The multiple-mic setup would be handy, though, because I think it would give us more options during editing: for example, the volume of each host’s voice could be adjusted independently. Recording the show has gotten more complex since then (we have videos now; check out ), but the multi-microphone dream has become a reality. Now we have two Yeti microphones, and we record them simultaneously. This wasn’t easy to get configured, though. There isn’t a lot of information about this online, so I’m writing this mostly as a warning to others and as bait for Google. TL;DR version: out of the box, you cannot use multiple Yeti microphones on the same Mac.
The longer version: it is possible, but you’ll need to send one of the mics back to Blue, the manufacturer, for a firmware update. The Symptoms There are plenty of tutorials online that show you how to record multiple USB mics at once using your Mac. They usually go something like this:. Plug in both microphones. Open the Audio MIDI Setup app. Create an Aggregate Device. Add both microphones to this new aggregate.
In your audio recording app, select this aggregate as your input device. Scott and I have exactly the same microphone: the. When we tried to follow these steps, things stopped working around step 4: only one microphone would show up in the list as an available device. Each one worked by itself, but if we tried to use both at once, only one would actually work. The Solution USB devices may have serial numbers. For the devices that have them, those serial numbers would ideally be unique to every individual device: a special snowflake, no two alike.
In reality, this isn’t always the case. Sometimes two devices will have the same serial number. This may or may not be a problem. In our particular case with Yetis, it’s a problem. If you plug a Yeti microphone into your Mac and open the System Information app, you can actually see the serial number for yourself. Highlight the Yeti Stereo Microphone entry, and you’ll see a line that says something like Serial Number: REV8 I tried this with both my microphone and Scott’s, and they both were using REV8 as their serial number.
I suspect all Yeti mics use this number. After emailing the support team at Blue, they told me they could update my mic with a new serial number: I just needed to provide proof-of-purchase, mail them my microphone, and they’d send it back with a new serial number. It took a week or two, but this definitely did the trick: Blue reprogrammed my mic to use the serial number 777, and we’ve been successfully using both microphones together ever since.