Mic input not working in Audition CC on Mac

[thomasbricker]

Im simply trying to use a USB mic to record vocals into Audition.

The mic physically works fine on its own in other apps and I see a signal indication in the Mac Systems Preferences.

But in Audition, Im getting nothing. No evidence of a signal.

Also when I try to use built in Input mic on this iMac, I get NO signal levels.

What am I missing here?

Is there a hidden preference in Audition that "turns on" audio input?

Please advise.

Thanks.

[ryclark]

The correct audio input for Audition has to be set in Audition's Preferences/Audio Hardware set up page. Normally Audition should default to whatever you have set as your default audio device for your computer. However this may not be correct for what you want to record from. The following YouTube video shows how to set up your mic for Audition.

How To Setup a Microphone in Adobe Audition - Adobe Audition Tutorial - YouTube

[thomasbricker]

Hi Ry,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I wish that did work as it should.

I have already watched that video and a couple of others as well as explored as many threads as I could find.(Most of which are frighteningly outdated.)

Still no signal whatsoever in Audition.

A little background:

The Samson C03U mic I have connected works flawlessly right now with Garageband and Adobe Premier.

There is nothing wrong with it.

As I mentioned, I get no input signal, even from the internal mic in my iMac when using Audition.

I DO get playback from a background music track in the multi-track Audition file I am working in. So I know audio does come out of the app on my system. It's just that the input function is acting like it is shut off even though everything is set correctly.

Disappointing.

Makes me want to bag the whole idea of using Audition and just go back to using Garageband.

Like most things from Apple, they just WORK.

[thomasbricker · Accepted solution]

I discovered the answer I was looking for.

One simply needs to click on the Record button which is in the left-hand side of the individual track’s interface that you are trying to record with the microphone onto. It’s a very small inobtrusive button, but it is very critical.

It is a small square button with the letter R in the middle of it.

Without that being turned on first, no microphone input works at all.

Problem solved.

I’m back in business!

[CuriousBob]

Thanks! I had the same issue. I trawled the preferences for far too long. Thanks for posting and saving me a heap of time! 

[Aaron219688971zlv]

Thank you! I've been having the same issue for weeks everyone kept telling me to go to preferences -> audio hardware/ channel mapping and nothing worked. But clicking the R was all I needed to do!

[guyb430474]

Hi,

Thank you fot putting  up your solve. 
There is no way I could have figured that out otherwise.
BRILLIANT.

Guy

[miracheta]

literally spent two hours trying to fix my mic and trying everything, uninstalling, reinstalling and rebooting hardware just to finally find THIS and feeling like a total moron. THANK YOU!

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Yes, there is an awful lot you can miss if you don't work your way through the basic tutorials, isn't there?

[Plyr1Abides]

If you're trying to record in the waveform view and can't get levels from the mic it's with your preferences.  I made a video on how to solve that problem https://youtu.be/qRHk77Jm3Is

[Madster07]

OMG, thank you sssoooo much for this video. It worked. duh...lol I didnt know about the security settings. Thanks agian. 😛

[Madhav]

A million Thanks. A case of when overthinking, some of the basic things are overlooked!