Hook-up Two USB mics to iMac

Is there any easy way to hook two USB microphones into an iMac through USB ports? Particularly if you're an idiot?

just plug them in but using them at the same time is another matter
pretty sure the general system only support 1 at the time so it's up to the app to support more
in my sounds settings I have
Internal Microphone
line In
soundflower 16ch
soundflower 2ch
Nokia BH-503 (this is the mic in my bluetooth headset)
Logitech camera (this is the build in mic in my extre logitech usb webcam)
all can be used by the system but only 1 at the time
if you want support for more then one then I believe you have to depend on the music recording app supporting it

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Applications?
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I would not have ever thought to
look at MIDI settings to record vocals from a mic.
Well it is Audio MIDI Setup B-)>
guess I thought maybe I would be able to select each
mic just using GarageBand.
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--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-|>

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Troy Evans wrote:
I have figured out how to record from both at the same time. However, playback only occurs on one headset
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