Hi. Here's something you could try. Set up the mic session so that it's muted, and it uses silent output. Set up schedules for both your mic session and then your system audio session, so that they both start recording at the same time. You'll of course end up with two audio files, but they should be more or less in sync. But you might have to play with the audio a little bit, but it shouldn't be hard to get them in sync. I've been doing a similar thing lately with podcasts. Holly and I both have mic sessions set up to start recording at a pre-determined time. We both have blue snowflakes, so we use those for the mic session. I also will hijack skype which is using the MacBook's internal mic. This ensures that if things don't work with the separate tracks, at least we still have a podcast. When we're done, she sends me her track, and I edit them together. We've done this twice now, and both times, they were exactly two seconds out of sync. That was easy enough to fix. Anyway, this approach might be worth trying. Darcy
On 19-Jun-09, at 5:44 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > > I think there are controls for that but when using system audio, > there's no > way to get the mic in without having to hear it. It would seem that > silent > output should cause it to record the mic and not make it audible > through the > internal speaker, but it doesn't. I guess the 2 choices are to use > headphones and try to concentrate with the delayed sound of yourself > coming > back, or trying to mix the 2 separate tracks together when I edit > it. That's > another feature for AHP, session groups that you can start recording > with > one action so the 2 files would sync up. If I started the mic > recording > first and then the system audio after a count, I could probably edit > the > beginning off the mic file and then mix it and it should be good to > mix > after I trim off the beginning to get them both the same length. I > don't > know why AHP can't just do that mixing itself. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "gene" <gene5...@austin.rr.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 3:24 PM > Subject: Re: Feedback from internal mic > > >> >> Hi brent: In windows you have the option to ajust volumes for >> playback >> and >> recording individually now I'm wondering if you have this kind of >> flexability on the mac, because yeah if you were to mute the mic >> then you >> wouldn't be able to record your voice, but if you could mute the mic >> playback but keep the recording part unmuted then you could do that. >> Gnee >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Brent Harding" <bhard...@doorpi.net> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:09 PM >> Subject: Re: Feedback from internal mic >> >> >>> >>> You can, but then I'd be recording dry VO with no voice from me. >>> To do >>> this, >>> the mic has to go through the system audio as well, like the Mac's >>> way of >>> what stereo mix would do in Windows, I guess. I'm thinking that >>> the mics >>> from Blue that I could clip on the top might get it far enough >>> away from >>> the >>> speaker to not cause trouble. I don't know how people Skype with >>> these >>> things as I have heard it and they don't end up introducing squeal >>> into >>> the >>> call. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "gene" <gene5...@austin.rr.com> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:26 PM >>> Subject: Re: Feedback from internal mic >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hi I don't know really anything about doing recording on the mac >>>> and I >>>> don't >>>> even know if my ibook would support it it ahs a g4 1.07 ghz >>>> processor >>>> and >>>> a >>>> gig of ram. Anyway about the feedback I wonder if you could mute >>>> the >>>> mic? >>>> I know you can do this in windows, so what I would do is talk >>>> into the >>>> mic, >>>> get the mic vollume ajusted and then mute the mic and that would >>>> take >>>> care >>>> of that! But I don't know if it is possible to do this on a mac. >>>> Gene >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Darcy Burnard" <darcyburn...@sympatico.ca> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:17 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Feedback from internal mic >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Are you recording with headphones on, or using the internal >>>>> speakers? >>>>> I would suggest headphones. >>>>> Darcy >>>>> >>>>> On 19-Jun-09, at 2:12 PM, Brent Harding wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi there. I tried the idea of recording system audio and the mic >>>>>> with Audio >>>>>> Hijack Pro by hijacking the system audio, then the mic, and then >>>>>> recording >>>>>> the system audio. My original problem was using silence output, >>>>>> but on >>>>>> regular, it kind of works with one big problem. The problem is >>>>>> the >>>>>> feedback >>>>>> I get when doing this. I mean that I get a lot of mic feedback >>>>>> into >>>>>> the >>>>>> speaker. Even at 30 percent, I get some, and at that point, the >>>>>> volume is >>>>>> already too low. Is there a way to get rid of this feedback as >>>>>> others seem >>>>>> to be recording like this with the built in mic, and I don't >>>>>> hear the >>>>>> squealing on their recordings. If there's nothing much to do >>>>>> about >>>>>> this, is >>>>>> there a free or cheap plugin that is accessible to reduce the >>>>>> feedback? I >>>>>> know such things exist in hardware, but obviously you can't >>>>>> wire one >>>>>> into a >>>>>> built in mic. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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