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How to get multiple audio inputs (working with discord or skype)

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 29, 2019
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Hello!

A friend and I are trying to start a podcast, but the thing is they live in a different state. I am trying to get Audition to record both of our voices as separate tracks. We are currently using discord to talk. I did some youtube searches and found a video that kind of worked but didn't lol...Basically, it was a program call Elgato sound capture.

What's happening is I can output his voice through "Elgato Sound Capture" as an input on audition. The issue is that I can't record my voice on a separate track b/c it only allows one input and I can't seem to change it. I can switch between my mic and "Elgato sound capture" but not use both as inputs. Does anyone know a solution for that? The mic I'm using is the Blue Yeti. Any solution would be helpful, mainly just how to record both our vocals on two different tracks at the same time.

I hope that was too much rambling and made sesnse.

Thanks!

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Thomas5E92

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Hello. You can follow this : https://digicruncher.com/discord-cant-hear-anyone-issue/

sarak57032339

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When I hit Join our community on Discord, it can't open the page

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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When I hit Join our community on Discord, it can't open the page

Nothing to do with us, I'm afraid.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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What you are trying to do is essentially not simple - this sort of scenario has been reducing people to tears of frustration for years now. Yes it's possible to do it, but you need to use programs like Virtual Audio Cable to do the routing, and that's really not simple to set up at all.

A method I've used in the past that's worked quite well is not to try to capture it all in real time, but to use Skype, and each of you record your own contribution at your own end, and the Skype output separately as a guide. Then whoever's putting the program together needs to get the file of the other person's recording of themselves sent to them, and you add this to the file of you, in multitrack, replacing the original Skype recording. This way, it sounds almost as though you are in the same room, and yet you have complete control of how everything sounds.

izayyaAuthor

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Thanks for the feedback. I've heard a lot about the Virtual Audio Cable program, so I guess I'll look into it. For now, I guess we will just record separate files since that seems to be the simplest way. thanks again!

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maxp19834160

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Hi Max,

Thank you for these helpful instructions. I have everything set up as you described, and it works mostly as expected. The audio output from Audition sounds garbled and robotic when output with Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO as the device, though. It seems like the audio itself is fine. If I change the device to Focusrite USB ASIO (for my Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen), it seems to output good audio, even if the audio was recorded with the Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO device. So I'm thinking there's something wrong with how Audition is relaying the audio back to Voicemeeter and then to my Scarlett Solo for output. I'm not sure if the issue is in Audition, Voicemeeter, or somewhere else, though. Any idea what could be wrong?

Allen

Hi Allen,

Is the actual recording in Audition garbled? What I would do is also use a normal mic if you have one, just to by-pass your Focusrite. At least just to start ruling out some devices. Since I use the Rode Podcaster USB, I don't really have the exact same setup. However, I don't see why there would be a problem with your setup. But try to simplify a little and we can see if there's any "conflict" between Voicemeeter and your Focusrite.

I don't know what type of devices you get from your Focusrite, but I assume that it's seen in Voicemeeter and you can assign it as an input device? What you can also do is just to listen to yourself via Voicemeeter and see if that sounds ok or not. From your "hardware input device 1" in Voicemeeter you can just choose "A1" if that's your default speaker output and then you'll get the microphone sound in your speakers/headphones.

/Max

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