Meeting audio
How to record a meeting on Mac with system audio
Record meeting video, the other participants’ audio and your microphone on a Mac. Compare Replay, Screenshot, OBS and your meeting app’s recorder, then test both sides before the call.
Capture the call audio and your microphone
To record both sides of a meeting on your Mac, capture two audio sources: the sound coming from the meeting app and the microphone you speak into. A microphone-only screen recording can miss everyone else, especially when you use headphones. Make a short recording with a consenting participant and play it back before you depend on the setup.
Choose how to record
| Option | What it captures | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Replay | Video from the call window, meeting app audio and a separate microphone track. | You want a searchable, local library of Google Meet, Zoom or Teams recordings. Requires Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. |
| macOS Screenshot | Screen video and a microphone input. Apple documents an Include System Audio option from macOS 27 onward. | You want a quick screen clip with no extra app. On macOS 26, use another method to capture the meeting app’s audio directly. |
| OBS Studio | A display, window or app, with macOS audio capture on macOS 13 or later and a configurable microphone input. | You want to set up your own capture sources and check levels in a mixer. |
| Built-in meeting recorder | The meeting’s own recording. Storage varies: Google Meet uses Drive, Teams uses OneDrive or SharePoint, and Zoom offers computer and cloud recording. | You want the official recording through the meeting app and your account, role and organization’s settings allow it. |
Record a call with Replay for Mac
Replay 0.2.11 captures the selected Meet browser window and audio from that browser. Keep Meet in the foreground tab of a dedicated window and pause unrelated media in the same browser. With Zoom and Teams, you can select a single window or choose all of the app’s windows on the call’s display if the call might move between windows.
If a selected microphone disconnects mid-call in Replay 0.2.11, Replay switches to the Mac’s default input until the selected one comes back. Listen for any missing speech afterward. Replay preserves gaps as silence so later audio stays in sync with the video.
- Install Replay in Applications and activate it using the email from your purchase. When prompted, allow Replay under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording and Microphone. Reopen Replay after enabling screen recording access.
- Open Google Meet in a browser, or join the call in the Zoom or Microsoft Teams Mac app. Tell the participants that you’re going to record and get their consent. Follow your organization’s recording policy.
- At the top of Replay’s sidebar, choose Record, then Meet, Zoom or Teams. Select the call window and choose a microphone in the picker. Click Start Recording.
- Watch the You and Them audio meters in Replay’s floating controls. Click Stop when you’re done. Open the saved meeting in Replay’s library and play it back.
Make a 20-second test recording
- Join a short test call with someone who agrees to be recorded. Use the same browser or meeting app, headphones and microphone you plan to use for the actual meeting.
- Start recording. Say ‘testing my microphone’ while the other person stays quiet. Then ask them to say ‘testing meeting audio’ while you stay quiet. In Replay, check You for the first phrase and Them for the second.
- Stop and play the clip from the start. Check that each phrase is clear and that you can see the window or shared content you meant to capture. Repeat the test after changing your input, browser or capture source.
Fix missing or doubled meeting audio
- You can only hear yourself. Confirm that you can hear the other person live, then check that the recorder is capturing sound from the app running the call. In Replay, check Screen & System Audio Recording access and select the correct call window. In Screenshot on macOS 27 or later, check Include System Audio.
- You can only hear the other person. Check the recorder’s Microphone permission, choose the intended input and speak while watching its meter. If you chose System default in Replay, check the selected input in System Settings → Sound.
- The other side sounds doubled. Try headphones so your microphone won’t pick up the call through the speakers. In OBS, check that the meeting app’s audio isn’t captured twice, for example by both a Screen Capture source and a separate Audio Capture source.
- AirPods sound muffled. Try using your Mac’s built-in mic as the input in Replay and the meeting app while listening through your AirPods. Using a Bluetooth headset’s microphone can reduce its playback quality.
- You hear another browser tab. Pause unrelated media in the browser running Meet. Selecting a Meet window narrows the video, while the audio still comes from the browser app.
Use Screenshot or OBS for a standalone clip
On macOS 27 or later, press Shift-Command-5 and choose a window, the whole screen or a region. In Options, turn on Include System Audio and choose your microphone. Record a short clip and check both sides in playback. A screen or region capture records whatever is visible there, so close unrelated material before you start.
In a compatible version of OBS Studio on macOS 13 or later, add a macOS Screen Capture source to a scene and choose the window, app or display. Check the audio from that source in the Audio Mixer and set up your microphone there too. Watch both levels separately and play back a short recording before the meeting.
Find the video and audio tracks
In Replay, open the recording’s menu and choose Show in Finder. A standard video recording lives under ~/Movies/Replay Recordings/. Its recording.mov contains the video and separate tracks for the meeting app and your microphone. When you transcribe it, Replay also creates an audio.m4a with both sides mixed, plus a Markdown transcript and subtitles. Recording and transcription run on the Mac. Creating a temporary video share link is a separate action that uploads a video copy.