Strangest Mic Problem

[AJinSD]

So I'm setting up my home "studio" and I'm having the weirdest issue with my mic (EV RE320). It works. I can record audio with it, if I use it on a stream or zoom call the other person can hear it, by every measure it works. The problem is, I specifically can't get it in my headphones.If I put on headphones (blu tooth or wired) I will hear every sound my computer makes except for the microphone. It also won't play through any outputs. I have my Mac hooked up to a soundboard and any sound I play goes right through the soundboard....except the mic. I've wrestled with this for 24 hours and am hoping someone can tell me how to fix it!

 

[Slydude]

If I understand what you want to do correctly, the problem is that macOS does not support a function commonly referred to as soft play-thru without third-party software. See here for a summary. The page lists several of their apps that support this, but they may not work on your current OS. The recording software Amadeus Pro also supports this function.

Edit: The free recording program Audacity supports enabling software play-thru, and I'm sure there is other free software that does so, but I couldn't think of any last night.

Edit 2: I understand why you want this feature, but one problem I've had when using is that there is often a delay between when you say something and when you hear it in the headset. I find this very distracting. Please post back and let us know your experience.

 

[krs]

Like Slydude said - you need a third-party software for that.

Many moons ago I installed Soundflower to do that.

Download Soundflower for Mac - free - latest version

Free audio routing solution

soundflower.en.softonic.com

Haven't used it for along time, so I don't really know if you also get that delay that was mentioned.

 

[Slydude]

Thanks for the reminder. I've used that before as well. At one point I removed it for reasons I no longer remember.

 

[barbermanz]

So I'm setting up my home "studio" and I'm having the weirdest issue with my mic (EV RE320). It works. I can record audio with it, if I use it on a stream or zoom call the other person can hear it, by every measure it works. The problem is, I specifically can't get it in my headphones.If I put on headphones (blu tooth or wired) I will hear every sound my computer makes except for the microphone. It also won't play through any outputs. I have my Mac hooked up to a soundboard and any sound I play goes right through the soundboard....except the mic. I've wrestled with this for 24 hours and am hoping someone can tell me how to fix it!

yoooo!!!! Im experiencing the same thing now! This is crazy!
I can be seen, I can see, I can hear but cant be heard. Ive done everything I could think of that makes sense.

 

[barbermanz]

If I understand what you want to do correctly, the problem is that macOS does not support a function commonly referred to as soft play-thru without third-party software. See here for a summary. The page lists several of their apps that support this, but they may not work on your current OS. The recording software Amadeus Pro also supports this function.

Edit: The free recording program Audacity supports enabling software play-thru, and I'm sure there is other free software that does so, but I couldn't think of any last night.

Edit 2: I understand why you want this feature, but one problem I've had when using is that there is often a delay between when you say something and when you hear it in the headset. I find this very distracting. Please post back and let us know your experience.

the feedback thing is crazy. It lasts forever. I had to turn off the other device I was using to stop it.