💻Recording Live Audio

Connecting Devices

To record live audio or use live audio from mics and mixers as an input on your computer, you'll need to use a Digital Interface (or "DI"). This converts the analogue signal from the mixer ("physical" sound waves from two 1/4" TRS or XLR cables) to digital signal used by the computer (1s and 0s over a USB or Thunderbolt cable).

Here's a quick, simplified example set up. They have a smaller mixer than we do, but it follows the same set-up.