#Audacity record multiple inputs how to
#Audacity record multiple inputs drivers
#Audacity record multiple inputs driver
#Audacity record multiple inputs manual

How to record 2 mics at once in audacity? You can use Garageband to Record with More Than One USB Mic.Do Not Try to Record 2 USB Mics with Audacity.Choose the USB Mics You Want to Combine.Note that you CANNOT record with 2 USB mics in Audacity. Hit the R on both tracks to arm each one to record. On track one and two, use the input drop-down menus titled Default Stereo Input to select both your USB mics. Leave the Preferences section and start a new multi-track session. Select both your USB mics as your left and right channels. Combining outputs of both at equal gains, but in opposite polarities, will cancel ambient noise from each to a certain degree. Are you sure the original was a single, mono track? This is normal – one Track Control Panel but two “tracks” to the right of it. With only a standard PC, the best way to record multiple inputs is to record one, then record another over the top. Multichannel recording is possible ONLY if the multiple inputs are presented to Audacity as a single device. Press Record and You Will Record 2 Mics At Once in Audacity.Īudacity supports ONE recording device at a time.How To Set Up Audacity with Voicemeeter Correctly.I believe that the Zoom H4N also supports ASIO drivers, but Audacity cannot be distributed with ASIO support due to licensing restriction.

#Audacity record multiple inputs drivers

That means that, although the H4N is advertised as having “4 track” ability, the standard Windows drivers for the H4N support only 2 channels. Th Zoom H4N is showing up as a 2 channel device with drivers support for MME, Direct Sound and WASAPI. Selected playback device: 4 - Speakers (Realtek High Definiti Selected recording device: 1 - ZOOM Recording Mixer (ZOOM H Se

#Audacity record multiple inputs driver

It also has an audio output (that I send to the mixer, this help me to listen both backtrack from audacity and live mic input while recording) =ĭevice name: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Inputĭevice name: ZOOM Recording Mixer (ZOOM H Seĭevice name: Microphone (Realtek High Definiĭevice name: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Outputĭevice name: Speakers (Realtek High Definitiĭevice name: Altoparlanti (ZOOM H Series Audĭevice name: Driver primario di acquisizione suoniĭevice name: ZOOM Recording Mixer (ZOOM H Series Audio)ĭevice name: Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)ĭevice name: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)ĭevice name: Altoparlanti (ZOOM H Series Audio)ĭevice name: Altoparlanti (ZOOM H Series Audio) (loopback)ĭevice name: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) (loopback) !!! When you read “Altoparlanti”, it means “Speakers” in italian, I guess it refers to the ZOOM built in little speaker. If you could copy and paste the information from “Help menu > Audio device info”, that may provide some insight as to how Audacity sees the H4N. So, do you have any suggestions to achieve my goal ?Īudacity can only record from 1 “device” at a time, but is able to record from as many “input channels” at that device makes available. I believe that this is a limitation of Audacity have you tested in any other DAW softwares?įrom my experience, it seems that Audacity can only receive signal from input 1. Thanks for contacting us with your question. Here I paste the Zoom Customer Support reply: Yes it works in audacity, but just using one of the two inputs (I send both guitar and MIC to the input of my loop station, and then the output of the loop station to ONE of the TWO inputs of the Zoom, and it works fine in audacity.īut when I’ve tried to plug another mic simultaneously in the SECOND input of the zoom recorder, audacity seems unable to record anything(either the previous well working one!) I would have expected that you could record from the plugged in external mic, but as I said, I don’t have an H4N to test. Whether or not the H4N passes audio from an external mic to the computer via USB or whether it only passes audio from its built-in mics, is entirely down to the H4N.

Audacity will just see the H4N (because that is the “sound card” device). Note that Audacity will not see the plugged in microphone as a new device.

#Audacity record multiple inputs manual

Perhaps your H4N manual can clarify that point. I don’t have a Zoom H4, but I would have thought that when using the H4 as a USB interface, that the Zoom would continue to use the external mic that you have plugged in.