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Multiple Headset Microphones

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I had been doing high school basketball podcasts for my "station" on Podomatic with two GE headset mics splittered into both the microphone and headphone jacks. I also have a Logitech USB headset mic for podcasting purposes that works fine on my laptop (A.K.A. "my moblie studio"), but only works when nothing is in the "actual" microphone jack. I only use it when I only need one mic, and I like it because there's only one cord from the headset to the USB end, taking up less space than the GE mics. I'm looking into buying another USB headset mic or two for my "station".

Would any two USB headset mics work, or would I need two of the same brand (like Logitech)? Also, is there some kind of USB splitter that lets you put two or more USB inputs in the same USB slot?
 
I had to read your post several times before I was able to grasp what you are asking.

I think you are going to be your own test pilot on this one. My expectation is that your "mixer" is only going to be able to deal with ONE USB device at a time. There are USB devices that you and I might look at a say: "Wow, a splitter, but the computer still sees 2, 3 or 4 seperate devices that are plugged into what they call a USB "HUB". I have a "USB Splitter that I plug my keyboard and my mouse into and then only one wire runs from the HUB over to the PC. My HUB will handle four USB devices so I can also plug a camera into the hub and maybe a "thumb drive flash memory" but the computer just sees them as individual devices just it would if I have 4 USB slots on my computer and plug all those items in directly to the computer.

Plugging two USB headsets into a HUB is not going to combine the audio. While writing this I just realized that I do have TWO USB microphone devices here. Tomorrow I will play with using two at once. Your version of Windows could make a difference but I expect your audio software for recording to only deal with one mic at a time.

When you use the two analog headsets and plug them into a splitter, your computer sees the combine analog audio as one microphone.
 
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