USB Microphone

I purchased a Fifine USB microphone. I followed the manufacturers instructions for setup. In "System Preferences" - "Sound" - "Input", you see the USB microphone listed. When selected as the input device, you see the moving bars as it is reading the sound from the USB mic. In Audacity, the USB mic is listed as the input but will not pickup anything during recording. After many attempts with the manufacture, their solution was to reinstall Audacity or use QuickTunes. I opened QuickTunes and was able to record in that app after some adjustments. I hooked the USB mic to an old PC and with Audacity, it worked without any adjusting or set up. The MacBook recognizes the USB mic, and the mic works on other devices, any suggestions (adjustments) that you can suggest for getting this USB mic to work with Audacity on my MacBook Pro?

MacBook Pro 16", macOS 10.15

Posted on May 6, 2020 12:18 PM

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Posted on May 6, 2020 12:44 PM

According to Audacity’s own website it is not supported on Catalina and will not take microphone input. They rattle on about how the new security restrictions may prevent them from making it compatible with Catalina. Also click on the forum URL on that page to get further information about a possible work around.


https://www.audacityteam.org/macos-10-15-catalina-is-not-yet-supported-by-audacity/



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May 6, 2020 12:44 PM in response to CBC_Mac

According to Audacity’s own website it is not supported on Catalina and will not take microphone input. They rattle on about how the new security restrictions may prevent them from making it compatible with Catalina. Also click on the forum URL on that page to get further information about a possible work around.


https://www.audacityteam.org/macos-10-15-catalina-is-not-yet-supported-by-audacity/



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