Dual Mic & Mixer

[thoma1337]

Hello,

My friend and I are thinking about starting a podcast, we will be buying a mixer and two microphones that run through it to make sure we are recorded on separate tracks. Now I am really new to Audition and I am fairly lost.  I was wondering how I would make this work on Mac? So the two microphones plug directly into the mixer and then the mixer into my laptop. Once the mixer is plugged in, how do I make it so Audition allows me to record each microphone on its own separate track instead combining them into the same one?

Thank you all!

[Bob Howes · Accepted solution]

On the mixer itself, use the pan controls to make one channel hard right and the other hard left.

In Audition, I suggest you record in a multitrack session.   You control what goes into each track in the set up panel at the left end of each track.  The inputs are controlled by the drop down menu with the right-pointing arrow identifying it.  Click on the menu, select mono, then select the first sound input in one track and the second in the other track.

This CAN be made to work plugging into you Mac sound input with appropriate adaptor cables  but I'd strongly suggest you either choose a mixer with a USB out or get a USB interface to go between your mixer  and computer.  Even something cheap and basic like a Behringer UCA202 would do the job.