The step by step will differ depending on the virtual device app and your OS. Not pretty but it will get the job done if Windows isn't letting you work a virtual audio device which I'm told is a thing. Patch the headphone output into channel 2 of your combo interface/mixer. Skype should be coming out the computer headphone jack. Reaper should be working with the connected combo interface/mixer.

Open Reaper and select the combo interface/mixer as normal. should be outputting from the computer headphone jack.) Gorilla workaround if your OS gives you trouble with that:Īssign your System audio to your built-in interface line output. Select the aggregate device in Reaper instead of the combo interface/mixer by itself.Īssign the incoming Soundflower channels to a track. Make an aggregate device of Soundflower + your combo interface/analog mixer. Virtual Audio Cable and Jack are a couple others.Īssign System audio to Soundflower in your OS audio control panel. The virtual audio device app to route audio between apps is the way to go.

I've attached a picture of my mixer (please excuse the dust!), but the attachment requirements forced it into pretty low resolution, so you can also follow the link I included above for more info. I've tried a variety of solutions posted online and have had no luck so far, so I'm hoping that you guys can help me out with this situation!

So, what I'd like to do is to be able to record my side of the interview through my external mic -> mixer -> Reaper while at the same time, in a separate track, recording the remote host directly into Reaper. These people may not be familiar with VOIP programs like Discord, so a more common program like Skype is required. Furthermore, many of the remote hosts will likely not be too tech-savvy, so a tech-lite solution is necessary. This means that some of the more common solutions to this problem that require the remote host to also install specialized software are less desirable. With this podcast, I will regularly need to interview people about a topic, but they will likely be new people each time. Software-wise, I'm using Windows 10 and ASIO4all. I'm in the beginning stages of putting together a podcast and I've had good success using Reaper to record locally using XLR mics that feed into a USB mixer ( Xenyx 802usb). I'm sure that my problem has been talked about quite a bit already in various threads (as I've been trying to solve this problem it seems like it's one that many people have), but I think that my setup might be a bit more unique.

Virtual audio cable skype not working