Audacity Forum

If I use 4 USB microphones with Audacity do I still need some kind of mixer or hardware? I think...that if a mic is plugged into a usb port, windows xp will give it a slice of the register. It seems to me that it is a computer thing to manage the signal from the mic to give it its own track.

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Audacity will recognize one sound device. One USB microphone counts as one device, so yes, the one sound device it recognizes will need to be a mixer.

Koz