Audacity Forum

I want to record with two mics on my computer but, i have to have one of them on default which lowers the sound of the other. so i would i get them to record at the same volume

The traditional way is a mixer or other sound processor.

You can't connect two "computer" microphones to a PC at the same time. There is a battery voltage that goes up to the microphone from the computer and strange things happen when it tries to operate two microphones at once.

If you have stand-alone microphones that don't need the battery (Dynamic, Ribbon, or self-powered electret), you can connect them both at once through a "Y" cable, but that only works if they're the same model number, and each will be half volume of any one by itself. You can't make one louder.

I haven't needed to buy anything like this in ages, so the best I can do is point you to Behringer which seems to make equipment people on the forum like. Two microphone mixer is the search term. You also need to know the type of microphone(s) you have.

Koz

k thanks man, I'm open to buy knew mics i just got some usb and 3.5mm mics

<<<usb and 3.5mm mics>>>

You also need to know that Audacity will only capture from one "thing." You get only one USB microphone even if you plug two in.

Others on the forum will confirm that the sound card in the normal PC is pretty terrible, so the point that you take the performance from analog volts to digital bits probably needs to be outside the computer.

This is where I bow out and let the PC people throw model numbers. Macs tend to have terrific Line-In connections and no microphone, so we can plug an analog mixer directly in and go with it.

Koz