Podcast Recording - Omnidirectional Mic - Host/Interviewee tracks

Question

Hey folks, I am new to recording podcasts and I was hoping to find an answer. I recently purchased a Blue Yeti mic that is omni/multidirectional. I am going to record a podcast at home with my wife and wanted to share the microphone. I'm wondering if it is possible to make the Host/Interviewee tracks separate, based on the direction the speaker is talking.

I'd like to make the Host track record when I speak into the front of the mic and than have the Interviewee track record when she speaks into the opposite end of the microphone. Is that a thing? Probably not, but thought i'd ask.

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

In theory you can using the Bidirectional mode, but in practice, if you are close enough to speak to each other then you'll get so much crosstalk that you won't be able to do anything useful with the split channels. The one thing you definitely can't do is use the mic to control whether a track is recording! I'm not aware of any software that would do anything like that, even as a gimmick - which it certainly would be.

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