I recently got an MV7+ and I like it, but I just hooked it up to do a short recording and Audacity won’t let me choose a stereo recording. It only shows the mono track.
I can use the exact same setup to record via Audio Hijack in stereo just fine, and that’s what I ended up doing just to get the recording done, nut I’m baffled that Audacity won’t let me choose to record in stereo.
I thought it might be a change in the latest release, but I went back two versions and had the same problem in each, so that’s not it.
My only guesses are: 1. I uninstalled the Motiv Mix app because it doesn’t play nicely with Audio Hijack, which I use to record the audio from Zoom for my podcast (and it just generally seemed to be more trouble than it was worth). That seems like an unlikely culprit to me, too, but since I’m new to this mic, maybe I’m wrong?
I installed Boom 3D because I had a situation the other day where I had competing audio from two different apps (one was a coworking meeting where I couldn’t control the incoming audio–someone thought it would be clever to play music during the session) and I was hoping to turn one down that way. Boom 3D is the only input coming up in Audacity with anything other than a Mono input.
Any thoughts? I’m on Sonoma 14.6.1 and Audacity 3.6.4.
It’s a mono mic. Most mics are mono and you need separate left & right mics for stereo recording.
There are stereo mics htat have two mic elements built into one housing. One is pointed toward left and the other toward the right. An analog stereo mic has separate left & right connections. Stereo USB mics can have both channels through the same USB connection.
Some applications (Audio Hijack is apparently one) seem to take a mono input (such as your Shure mic) and record two identical channels. There is no advantage to this. The disadvantage is that it takes up twice as much space for the same information.
A mono track in Audacity plays back through both stereo channels.
If what you’re saying is correct (and I’m not doubting you), then I’m really baffled, because I’ve been able to use this mic and record in stereo directly into Audacity before. The same is true of my old ATR2100USB/USBx mics, which I assume are also mono mics. So what’s changed?
I’m a Windows guy so I don’t know but as Bill says, if you had left & right tracks you were recording in “dual mono” with the same audio in the left & right channels.