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Recording a podcast with two USB mics on a Windows XP machine

Hi.

I have been using an USB mic to record my podcast and so far, so good.

I'm planning to buy a second USB Mic, because it's difficult to record two or more persons at a time; but i have been reading that it's not possible to record from two mics on a single machine.

Is that true?, is there another hardware that i need to buy to solve this issue?

Thanks.

Brum07

You need a mixer

http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-124141.html

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fredshovel

Best podcasting is achieved using a large diaphram condensor microphone -- virtually the same microphones that singers use to collect every nuance of their voice with a very sensitive microphone. Then you connect it to a mixer (with phantom power to power it) with a headphone socket so you can monitor every nuance of your voice and practice sounding like the professional voice over guys.
Alternatively you use an interface like the Fast Track Pro instead of the mixer.
Check out the old Rode NT2 microphone -- beautiful!!
I can't believe I used to sell stuff to the owner, Peter Freedman when he and his dad had a little music store just out of Sydney. Now he's a real big shot leading a world market.
http://www.rodemic.com/microphone.php?product=NT2-A
Rode also have a mic called a Podcaster -- but it's USB and that puts you back to your original problem.