How to Record 2 USB Mics with Separate Tracks at the Same Time on MAC (For Interviews & Podcasting) #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- Hey podcasters, Pat here,

with an answer to a very specific question

that many of you had in the Student Center,

I appreciate you all for that

and that is, can you conduct an interview in person.

Let's say for example with a guest or maybe a co-host

with a computer and two of your microphones

that plug in via USB?

These are two ATR2100 microphones.

And I'm happy to say that the answer is yes.

And that's without having to use one of those expensive

portable recorders, so I'm going to show you how to do this.

Now the first thing you need to make sure

is that you have the two microphones right?

And I'm usi
ng two ATR2100s.

And you need to make sure that you have a cord

that's long enough for the distance that you need.

The cord that comes with the ATR is typically long enough,

don't use a short one like this.

This is the only other one I could find though,

so I'm just going to plug it in for now.

And speaking of plugging in,

you need two free USB ports in your computer

in order to make this work

because you have two microphones right?

But if you only have one free USB port,

then you can use one of these devices

which is a USB hub, this one has one

to plug in to your computer,

and then it actually has slots for four different devices,

so you could potentially have

up to four different microphones

if you wanted to do it that way too.

I'm only going to show you how to do it

with one of these things, or excuse me, two microphones.

So I'm gonna plug in them, actually I'm gonna put this in,

so we can use that.

And then I'm gonna plug these two microphones in,

there's one mic, there's two mics,

you can see they're blue now.

Now the blue doesn't necessarily mean they're on right?

You still need to have them turn on.

And then I'm gonna go and set those aside for now.

Now this isn't as portable as this solution here

which is using your iRig Mic Lavs.

Two little microphones that connect to each other

are in here that then connect to your mobile device.

So you can even use your phone to record on the go

and that's great if you're maybe doing

a one-off interview at an event or something

and you don't have enough room to pack all this stuff

and you're not gonna bring your computer.

But if you're gonna be doing this more often,

a computer and two microphones

plugging in via USB will work.

But it's not just gonna work right off the bat,

there's one thing you need to do in your computer

in order to make this all work,

and I'm going to show you how to do that right now.

So right now, we're in a Mac and we are going

to go to the Applications folder

and scroll all the way down to Utilities.

This is a little trick, the thing you have to do

to tell the computer that you have something

that has two mics connected to it.

We're going to create a new device essentially,

that is a combination of both of these.

And like I said, we go to Applications,

we go to Utilities and then we go to Audio MIDI Setup.

So we click on that.

And what we need to do is,

we need to create an aggregate device.

So to do that all we have to do is

go on the plus symbol down here.

Create Aggregate Device and now we're gonna select

the two USB microphones that are there

plugged into our computer.

Let's actually rename this to My Two Mics.

And then we're good to go.

Now a couple other things we need to dom

go to preferences, the Apple symbol, System Preferences.

Sound and then you can see the My Two Mics

are set up there and if I were to actually like,

start tapping on the mics, you can see it moving there.

You're not going to hear it but you can see the sound

going into those microphones, that's good.

So that's the first sign.

Now we're going to open up GarageBand.

Now don't worry because when you click on this

you're not gonna see any input devices

because we haven't even selected those yet,

but I'm just gonna hit create for right now

and I'm gonna go up to GarageBand and Preferences.

Hit Audio MIDI, and then you want the input device

to be My Two Mics,

remember that's the name we gave

that particular device, My Two Mics.

So now it should be all ready to go.

I'm going to hit x, and now, when I click on new track,

I'll be able to input much more.

So input one, we have to test these out,

this is the thing we have to do,

we have to test these out

to make sure they are connected to the right one.

So I'm gonna hit Create, and I'm going to actually

go to Track, Track Header

and then Show Record Enable Button.

Now that's really important,

because that's gonna make sure that we know

that this is actually one that's set to record,

so you can see it start to move now.

So now if I tap this one, is it this one

or is it this one?

Check, check, check,

check, check.

Okay, so the one that I had without a foam mic,

a foam ball right now is audio, is this one.

So I'm just gonna, let's see, I'm gonna rename this one

Without Foam, you can rename them whatever you want.

Actually might be smart to get different colored foam balls.

I'm gonna delete this track by hitting command

and then backspace.

And now I'm gonna make a new one that's gonna be

input number three, I believe three is going to be

the next one, and to find out we'll just test it.

So now we have to enable this one.

So here is the non-foam one as you can see

it's moving at the top.

And then here is the foam one,

that is now for this one, so let me rename

that one really quick.

With Foam, so yellow or blue or red,

you can buy the different sort of foam balls there.

And then now, when we hit record,

since both of them are armed,

that's the other thing, make sure both are armed like that.

And again to enable this setting,

I don't know why it's not enabled to begin with,

but if you go to Track, Track Header,

Show Record Enable Button, that's how you do that.

So now if I record.

So I'm gonna first record with the foam one

and then I'm gonna record without the foam one

and I'm gonna point it sort of, far away,

before I grab it, so it doesn't pick up as much sound.

It will pick up a little bit of sound

that's one thing you'll notice when you're in the same room

with somebody with these mics.

Make sure they're holding it close to their mouth

and you have a stand along with you,

or a couple stands along with you

so you don't have to worry about it.

But the other mic will pick up the other person,

but when they're combined together

it's gonna be fine because they're gonna overlap

and it'll cancel out.

So let's first record with the foam

and then I'll go to the other one.

Hey, this is Pat, I'm recording with the foam microphone

right now, with the ATR2100

and I'm about to grab the one without the foam.

Hey, guys, Pat here, and there might be a little popping

'cause there's no foam ball on this one.

But this shows you that you're actually able

to have both microphones plug into the same computer,

using, in this case, we're using an actual USB splitter

and you're actually able to have them in separate tracks.

So in case one is louder or you need to fix one,

you can change it up

and it'll be all good and ready to go.

All right, I hit stop, and by all good and ready to go

I mean you can lower the volume, raise the volume.

One trick I like to do in GarageBand specifically

just to make it sound neat and clean,

is I like to go to Voice and go to like Narration Vocal,

and that adds a number of filters

and a lot of things to that particular track,

you'll need to do that for both if you want to.

And that will get rid of a lot of the background noise too.

And now let's hit play and see what this sounds like.

Recording with the foam microphone right now,

with the ATR2100 and I'm about to grab the one

without the foam.

Hey, guys, Pat here, and there might be a little popping

'cause there's no foam ball on this one,

but this shows you that you're actually able

to have both microphones plug into the same computer

using, in this case, we're using.

And there you go, so that's the setup,

it's not too much stuff.

It's basically all I got.

And rock on, thanks guys, appreciate all the questions,

I appreciate all the love.

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All right guys, take care, bye.

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