stereo recording with 2 USB mic's

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John_B
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stereo recording with 2 USB mic's

Post by John_B » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:40 pm

hi ,

at the moment i have 1 usb mic PG27 and make home recording's with it
i would like to do a stereo recording but than with 2 usb mic's

is it posible to select for the left channel the first usb mic and for the richt channel the second usb mic
i could not find this option ,
if not what do you think about this feature

are there perhaps usb audio carts with multipel usb inputs

kind regards john

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Re: stereo recording with 2 USB mic's

Post by kozikowski » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:00 pm

The best you can do with two USB microphones is Aggregate Device which jams them together into one. This works best with two identical microphones. This is easy in Macs and Linux, but the jury's out on Windows.

USB microphones are aggressively non-expandable. They're one trick ponys. You can use one in Overdubbing/Multitrack where you build up a song instrument by instrument and you can use two microphones and two computers. Combine the two tracks, but even there you can get into trouble. Since you have two different digitizers, the song's parts can drift out of sync as the performance goes on.

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Re: stereo recording with 2 USB mic's

Post by skyy38 » Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:53 am

It would be FAR easier to pick one of these up:


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ ... RQodsm4eKg

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