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After installing macOS Mojave or later, you might see an alert that says audio input isn't accessible when trying to record. Or you might not hear sound, see waveforms, or see audio meters move when recording. To record audio, allow the app to access audio inputs:

1. Close the app you're using to record audio.
2. On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then click Privacy.
3. Click Microphone.
4. Select the checkbox next to an app to allow it to access the built-in microphone on your Mac, an external USB mic, or the inputs on an external audio interface.
   
5. Open the app and try to record audio again.

• A common way of recording 2 USB mics on the Windows platform, is with VoiceMeeter. This is a free virtual audio mixer that lets you set up a range of different input options. Once downloaded, you can select and manage separate USB mics inside VoiceMeeter's control panel.
• Near the bottom left you are going to see a heading that says Recording Settings. Because we have two microphones plugged in we need to let GarageBand know that we want each track to be picking up a different microphone. So if we click on the first track, we can.
• To the right you'll see a list of all the audio devices attached to your Mac, including those two mics. Tick the Use checkboxes for the two microphones (if any of them have multiple entries, look for the one that has a 1 in the In column). As you do so, subdevices entries will appear above the list of audio devices.
• Launch GarageBand and create a new project—one with two audio tracks, for example. Choose GarageBand Preferences Audio MIDI. From the Input Device pop-up menu choose the two-mic setup that you.

If you're using an external microphone or an external audio interface to record audio and it's still not working, check with the manufacturer of your device for software updates and information on compatibility.

Apr 04, 2013  I changed Garageband's audio input and output to SYSTEM SETTINGS and then back to BUILT-IN OUTPUT and BUILT-IN MICROPHONE and the built-in mic still works. I used to use Cubase and I have a TASCAM US-122L USB 2.0 Audio/MIDI Interface through which I want to run my microphone and my guitar and my keyboard in GarageBand. Dec 22, 2008  GOOD Recording mic for Garage Band (Suggestion needed) Thread starter Joeytpg; Start date Feb 15. What are you planning to use to input your microphone signal into the Mac? I use it to mic my Twin for recording w/GarageBand and, believe me, it'll pick up pretty much EVERYTHING you throw at it with a nice, clean response.

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You can use more than one microphone or input device with GarageBand on your Mac. Instead of buying more hardware, you can configure your Audio MIDI Setup utility to create an aggregate device that treats each mic like a track in a single input. Then you can set up multiple tracks in GarageBand to use those tracks so each mic records to a different track.

Check out Recording With Multiple Microphones Using GarageBand at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. On this episode I'm going to show you how to use multiple microphones simultaneously in GarageBand. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a community of supporters. Join us and get exclusive content at macmost.com/patreon.So say you want to use multiple microphones at the same time in GarageBand. So each microphone goes into it's own track. You can set that up using the audio midi utility that comes with your Mac and knowing how to set it up in GarageBand.The first thing you need to do is build what is called aggregate device that's going to be a single input device that includes the channels from all of your microphones. So to do that you're going to run an app called audio midi setup. It comes with your Mac. If you just use Go to Utilities you'll go to your Utilities folder inside your Applications folder and you'll find it there or you can just search for it in Spotlight. Now here you're going to see every audio input and output device. So here's one microphone and it says 2 inputs. Here's another microphone and this has got 1 input and 2 outputs because a lot of times microphones includes speakers or listening devices or if it's like a headset like this, of course, there are outputs. Then here's another one, the main microphone that I use, and there's a set of 2 outputs and 2 inputs here. This also has a headphone jack for you to monitor. That's why there's two outputs.So you want to use the Plus button here and create an aggregate device. Then you get to name this device. So I'm going to name it All Mics and I'm going to add here in this list all of the mics I want to include. So I only want to look at things that have inputs. Here's one microphone so I'll add that. Let's go in the list here and look for this microphone here and I'll add that. Then here's the other one and I'll add that. So now you can see I have five channels. One of the microphones only has a single channel. The other two are stereo. Now I get to choose which one is the Clock Source which basically means which one is running the show here. So it probably doesn't matter but I'll choose this one here. I can choose my Sample Rate if that's important to me and see all of the different devices here and which channel they map to. Notice that Drift Correction is checked off for the ones that are not set as a Clock Source. In other words it's going to try to adjust the timing so everything is in sync.So now I'm all set here. Now in GarageBand I'm going to start an empty project and I'm going to start off with one audio track using a microphone. You can see here I can choose the instrument. So I'm going to click that and that will open up GarageBand Preferences and allow me to choose the input device. I'm going to go from System Setting to All Mics which is the aggregate device that I created. Now with All Mics selected I can click here and I can see the different inputs. You can see there are five different inputs here. Now I know that the first two, 1 and 2 are the left and right stereo inputs from one microphone. So I'll select those. I'll hit Create and I get a track here that's going to listen in on that microphone. Hit the Plus button to create a new track and also choose that as audio. But this time I'm going to do 3 and 4. So the second microphone. Then I'm going to do the Plus button again and choose 5, I could choose 5 and 6 but there is no track 6, 5 to get that last microphone that's only one track.So now I have three different microphones. But the problem is only one is recording at a time. So if I click this one you can see that it's picking up my voice there but these other two go silent. If I select this one it's picking up my voice there but these two are silent. So it's only going to record one at a time. You can change that by selecting a track and if you Control click on it you do Configure Track Header. You can see Option T is the keyboard shortcut for that. I can put Record Enable on for that track. I'll make sure Record Enable is on for each of these tracks.Now that Record Enable is on I can click Record for each one of these. So all three now are flashing red and they're going to record for each one of these microphones. So now when I talk you can see each one is recording and some of them are picking up better because they are right in front of my mouth. Others are off to the side and I get three tracks. Now when I play it back I can hear all three. So now when I talk you can see each one is recording.Now how well this works definitely depends on the quality of the mics. When I try this with some older cheap microphones it gave a noticeable echo. So even with Drift Correction the timing was a little bit off. But the three mics I was using, which are all pretty good, there was no noticeable echo. So it would have worked say if I had three people around a table each with their own microphone recording a podcast. Or three people playing different instruments each being hooked up as a different audio input.

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