Some Audio Apps Will Not Recognize Inputs Beyond 1 and 2

Recently I attempted to record a session with a guest and we couldn’t get his audio to come through Zencastr or Squadcast. He said he saw level in his computer, but I couldn’t hear him.

He was using a Zoom L-12 recorder/interface and he saw level there, too.

To make a long troubleshooting story short:

Even though the L-12 is a multitrack device, only the first 2 inputs of the L-12 are recognized by Chrome (for Zencastr and Squadcast). And his microphone had been plugged into channel 7 of his L-12.

Yeah.

So if he plugged his microphone into channel 1 or 2 of the L-12 I would have been able to hear him fine.

Moral of the story: If you have an interface with more than 2 inputs, some audio apps will not recognize any inputs except 1 and 2.

A workaround on a Mac is to use Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback app to create a virtual instrument to group together all the inputs from your interface, and then you can feed them all to whatever app you want to use.

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