1. Multiple Microphones Into Single Input Player
2. Two Microphones One Input
3. Windows 10 Multiple Microphones

While your Macintosh is a fantastic audio editing machine, you may have noticed that Garageband can only see one microphone at a time. All is not lost – Apple includes a tool that can be used to create an “Aggregate Device.” An Aggregate Device is what Apple calls a virtual input device – a device that looks like a microphone, but as you’ll see is actually more than one microphone combined into one option. How to do it, though?For this answer, I’m going to use two microphones. One is a Logitech G330, and the other a Griffin iMic. I’ll combine these two devices into a single Aggregate Device which will allow me to use each mic as a channel in Garageband.

Microphones are low-impedance sources and they are designed to work into a high-impedance input, at least 10x or so the mic impedance. This causes most of the mic's voltage output to be dropped across the mixer input instead of across the mic itself. A 'Y' or 'wye' cable will connect the two mics in parallel with each other, along with the load.

I’m using Garageband version 5.1, and Audio MIDI Setup version 3.01. If you’re using different versions, your screens make look and act slightly different.To start, unplug your microphones so you can follow along. Open Audio MIDI Setup from within your Utilities Folder. The Utilities folders is in your Applications folder (in case you’re wondering).Make sure you’re in the Audio Devices window by choosing Show Audio Devices from the Window menu. If you’re in the right place, you’ll see a screen that looks something like the picture below.Plug in your microphones. As you plug in your microphones, you’ll see them appear on the left side of the window.Next you’ll create the Aggregate Device.

Click the Add Device (the +) at the bottom left of the window.A new device will appear named “Aggregate Device.”If you’re going to using several configurations, it helps to give each configuration (Aggregate Device) a unique name. I chose “Multiple Mics” for this tutorial.Make sure you’ve clicked the new Aggregate Device, and you’ll see a list of audio devices on the right. This list only includes real audio devices, and won’t include other aggregate devices you may add.The next step is to choose which audio devices you want to include in your new Aggregate Device.

I chose the “Logitech G330 Headset,” and the “iMic USB audio adaptor.” The iMic has an input and an output (you’ll see each listed). Notice that each iMic has their function listed in the “In” and “Out” columns.Sometimes you may need to adjust the “Clock Source:” and the “Resample” options. Click the purple question mark to activate Apple’s Help System if you need more on how those work. A tell tale sign that you’ll need to adjust these settings is that one of your microphones will sound fuzzy or “digital.”Great work! Now you have what appears to be a new microphone to all of the programs on your Mac.Now let’s open Garageband, and choose Podcast as our new project!The default setting for a new Podcast in Garageband will have two audio tracks.

Click the first track, which is named “Male Voice.” That sets this track as active, and allows us to change setting for just this track. Notice the I in the bottom right corner of the window. This allows us to set the microphone settings and voice effects. Go ahead and click the I now.Have a look at the Input Source menu. You’ll notice that there are several sources listed, all created by our Aggregate Device settings. The names all reflect the name we gave the Aggregate Device (in my case, “Multiple Mics.” You can choose to use your mic’s a stereo, or mono depending on your needs. Since the “virtual” devices aren’t named, you can just look at your Audio MIDI Setup window to see which order they appear in.In my case, I wanted to assign the Logitech G330 to the “Male Voice” track.The other track is set to use the Griffin iMic microphone.A closing thought: if you want to record from both of these devices simultaneously, be sure to click the record button for both tracks.There you have it.

Two microphones in Garageband, with no additional software or hardware. You can use as many microphones this way as you have USB ports.Utilizing his background in Internet and technology startups, contributor and tech expert Michael Sitarzewski thoroughly enjoys helping people understand and leverage technology. To learn more about Michael and his projects, visit. I have had great difficulty getting multiple mics to work. I create an aggregate device sometimes for 3 mic, sometimes for 4, and I use it to record a podcast where we’ve got a bunch of people talking into my MacBook. We tend to record in 15 minute segments, and inevitably, when I play back any of these tracks, within a few minutes, one of the voices begins to get very staticky, as if the recording of just that one mic is degrading very quickly, to the point where it really ruins the track. We have experimented with different USB headsets, different USB hubs, and I just can’t figure out what our problem is, because we used to be able to record alright, but our last few shows have had this problem, and it’s killing us.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

Multiple Microphones Into Single Input Player

I have multiple 3.5mm Audio inputs (PC, TV and the ability to expand in the future) and I have multiple 3.5mm outputs which I'd like them to play to (Speakers, a headset and soon to purchase a ButtKicker Gamer 2) I would like to have all the inputs play to all the outputs and all I'd do is control the volumes on the devices.So far I've tried using one of those cheap audio splitters and splitting my PC's input and splitting it to my speakers and headset which works fine. I've tried adding another splitter and stacking it so that I can have an extra input but all I got was a loud buzzing feedback from it.Is there a more elegant solution to resolve this issue, I've done several searches on Google and Amazon but I'm presuming I'm not using the correct keywords to provide any helpful search terms. When I searched for Audio Mixers, all I seemed to fine was: Multiple Inputs with a single output; Multiple outputs with a single output; Mixers for for the Professional mics which won't help.Is what I'm asking for even feasible? Can I achieve this relatively cheaply (. You may be having problems finding what you need because the terminology you're using (input, output) is backwards of industry convention.Think about it this way: Some devices generate and provide a signal. Call them sources.

(You'll notice that some equipment that you can connect a lot of sources to has a 'source selector' - either a rotary knob, or a bunch of buttons.)And other devices accept or need a signal from a source. Call those 'destinations', or, better, let's use the physics-y term, sinks.Things like speakers and headphones are sinks. An MP3 player is a source. A TV can be either, but the way you're talking about it, it sounds like you're using it as an audio source.

A PC can also be either, but its 'headphone' or 'speaker' or 'line out' jack is a source. (The 'mic' and 'line in' jacks are sinks.)A source device has one or more output connections, usually 'jacks' (things with holes - female connectors). And a sink device, something that accepts a signal, has input connections, again, usually female connectors. Headphones are a special case: They're a 'sink' device (you send a signal to them) but they come with a cable that ends in a male connector (aka a 'plug').(Aside: In pro audio equipment using XLR connectors, sources have male connectors - things with pins - and sinks have female. Once you see that the pointy pins on the male XLR connectors point in the direction of signal flow, it makes perfect sense. All proper XLR cables therefore have one female and one male end, and you can't mistakenly connect two inputs or two outputs to each other because no one in their right mind will ever make a cable that will let you do it.

'Gender changers' don't exist - or, at least, they are scarce like hens't teeth - and don't have to. AC power connectors in all countries on the globe use the opposite convention: Pins are present on things that need power, while holes that accept those pins exist on things that provide power. This precludes people accidentally coming into contact with energized parts.

(Well, 'precludes' unless they're really trying hard to be stupid, like sticking straightened paper clips into an outlet.) You won't find gender changers for AC power connections either, and for good reason.)I say this not to be pedantic. Well, not just to be pedantic. I could mentally switch everything over and write this using your terms. But those terms don't match what you'll find in product descriptions.

A mixer, for example, accepts several inputs and provides an output. You connect the mixer's inputs to other devices' outputs. Those other devices, though, are not thereby 'inputs'.

Hai to gensou no grimgar wiki. In other words, the labels on the connectors are not descriptions of what the connected-to devices are, they are descriptive of what the connector itself does.So. The first rule is, do not use simple 'splitters' ('Y-adapters') to combine signals! Never ever ever.In other words, do not connect a splitter to two or more signal sources and a single sink. (The reason has to do with impedances.

Two Microphones One Input

If you want the tech details, see at the Rane Audio web site.)If you want to combine several signals, so that you can listen to them all at the same time (or, more realistically: You want to listen to whatever source is playing, but you don't want to have to operate any switches to choose what to listen to, and if more than one is playing at once you'll just put up with the confusion until you stop some of them), you do indeed want a mixer.The resulting mixed signal will appear at the mixer's output jack, or jacks. Some mixers provide more than one jack, or set of jacks, that all carry the same output. More complicated mixers, esp in the pro audio market, will often have more than one 'bus' to which the incoming signals can be sent, and will have an output jack for each bus, but you don't want those.Picking a mixer: With PCs and related gear many people are looking for a mixer that accepts signals on a series of 3.5mm stereo jacks, the same type used (unfortunately) on PCs.

(I say unfortunately because these are without a doubt the Worst. Used for audio.

Quarter-inch phone jacks being the second worst. But we appear to be stuck with them.) However such devices seem to be rare. Second-best would be a mixer that uses 'RCA' (aka 'phono', 'Cinch') connectors. You can easily find cables that have a single 3.5mm stereo plug on one end and two RCA connectors, one per channel, on the other, to connect such a mixer to e.g. Your PC, an MP3 player, maybe a phone, maybe your TV, etc.Although this site is not about product recommendations, one mixer I found that fits here is the Rolls MX42. That one is unpowered - a 'passive' mixer, it's just a bunch of pots - volume controls - and resistors. I would prefer an 'active' mixer, but I haven't found one that's entirely suitable.( 'Midiman', which became M-audio, used to make a sweet little mixer called the MiniMixer 10 - I've used them successfully in many similar setups, but they're long discontinued; maybe you can find one used.

Windows 10 Multiple Microphones

A candidate was the Rolls MX122: It can mix up to four stereo sources + a microphone - you could just ignore that input - and has both line-level outputs (for connecting to amplified speakers, etc.) and a separate headphone jack with its own volume control. Unfortunately it is about $120 and uses 1/4' phone jacks for everything, two per input (for the L and R channel) and two more for the output; adapters of course exist for these but you would have to buy a bunch of them, and the result would be large and clunky.)From the mixer's output, you can generally use a couple of Y-adapters to send your signal to speakers + whatever else. Headphones though may be a special case (again) because their impedance (for typical non-pro phones anyway) is so much lower than anything with an amplifier. If you can find a mixer that has a headphone output and an output intended to feed an amplified device, it would be better to plug your 'phones into that 'phone jack and split the other output to run everything else.