As the author of an exhaustive book about Zoom, Take Control of Zoom, I am constantly looking for good tips and missing pieces in people’s Zoom experience. I encountered one in a recent podcast recording with a guest who was unable to record via QuickTime on her Mac. Her employer-issued device locked out USB input selection for QuickTime, even though she could use a USB mic with Zoom!

She was able to record locally within Zoom once I found the setting for that, but the file produced was a composite of both her and I instead of separate files, which are generally useful for audio editing. (Distinct tracks allow an editor to remove coughs or noises from tracks other than the one on which someome is speaking, as well as reduce cross-talk, more easily edit out false starts or digressions, and remove other noise.)

It was only after the