

There have been quite a few threads about this subject in the past… Here are two examples (there are more if you search thouroughly through these forums you might find quite more): The best you can try to achieve is recording 2 simultaneous mics into a stereo track and have one mic on each channel (and you still need a sound card that allows you to connect 2 mics and pan each of them to opposite channels). So you either need to compile Audacity by your own with ASIO support or you need a sound card with good working WDM drivers, which is known to be a problem too.

Audacity does not support ASIO out of the box (Audacity can be compiled with ASIO support but can’t be distributed with ASIO support because of legal issues). You then need drivers for it, and drivers that work with audacity. And the troubles don’t stop there… That’s the least of the problems. To record 4 mics into 4 separate tracks you need a sound card capable of multi-track recording. I’m afraid there’s no easy way to do what you want…
