How to Record an On-Location, Two-Person Podcast with Two Microphones and a Digital Audio Recorder
This photo shows it all. Two microphones connected via a Y-connector to a digital recorder (in this case, an Olympus WS311M, but any recorder with a stereo microphone input will work).
The Y-connector has a stereo 3.5mm (1/8-inch) miniplug that plugs into the stereo microphone input jack of your recorder.
The two branches of the Y-connector terminate in either 1/4-inch jacks (as in this photo), or XLR connectors, depending on which type of microphone cables you are using.
When you plug the jack into your digital recorder
microphone input jack, each microphone will record in a separate channel so you have one voice
in left and one in right. If the levels are mismatched, it is easy to
raise or lower one channel in post-production.
AND, you can edit each channel separately, so if one guy coughs while the other
guy is talking, you can take out the cough from the cougher's microphone channel while
leaving the voice in the other channel.
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See the microphone isolation box I built for two bucks.
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