This is the device that will be doing live monitoring of your signal, so if you have some sort of "zero latency monitoring" option on your USB device either (a) turn it off or (b) plug your headphones into another place (like your internal headphone jack on your Mac as I have done in our screenshot here). If it's your Mac, that would either be "Internal Speakers" or "Built-in Headphones" depending upon whether or not you have plugged headphones in yet.
Some USB mics have a "zero latency monitoring" feature, but using it means you won't hear what's actually being recorded, and that can lead to some very disappointing recordings if something goes awry in your process. With Audio Hijack 3, Rogue Amoeba completely reworked the interface from Audio Hijack Pro, making the app simpler and even more flexible at the expense of losing the ability to monitor our recordings without hearing ourselves on delay, or with "low latency."
This is particularly useful for podcasters, as it allows them to record "live-to-tape" while hearing exactly what their listeners will hear.Īudio Hijack Pro users will recall being able to accomplish this by tweaking the audio device buffers. Rogue Amoeba added a (previously-hidden) preference to Audio Hijack 3.3 that allows users to monitor themselves with no perceptible delay while recording.