Hi Jenine, if you are going to be doing this sort of thing for broadcast purposes or for anything other than your own archival purposes, I'd highly recommend using Audio Highjack pro to record your Skype calls. You can choose the file format you want to use. This is important, because most file formats are lossy. If you save a Skype call in a lossy format, like MP3 or something compressed, you will eventually have to bring it into a sound editor, where it will get edited, saved, and eventually compressed a second time to a lossy format. The more times you do this, the more artefacts you'll introduce to your recording. You can tell Audio Highjack to save in .aiff format, which is the Mac equivalent of a .wav file and is therefore completely uncompressed.I know you also use Amadeus Pro, so let me talk you through how I use the two together. I set up Audio Highjack so that my voice is on one channel, and the Skype caller's voice is on the other. The advantage of doing this is that you can then bring the file into Amadeus Pro, and put each channel in a separate track. Once that's done, convert each track from a mono to a stereo track, and you have you and the Skype caller in both ears. Because you are both on separate tracks, you can apply different effects as appropriate. For example, normalise each track separately so you are both sounding similar in volume. If the Skype caller sounds too bright or too dull, you can apply equalisation just to the caller, and not to you. Finally, if you wish, you can pan each track to get a stereo effect. Then when you're done getting things sounding just how you want, mix it all down back onto one stereo track. It sounds a bit complicated writing it down, but i do this all the time and now it's just a routine. The other advantage of Audio Highjack is that it isn't specific to Skype. I use it to record FaceTime Audio calls and calls from more obscure chat programmes where appropriate, so it's a very powerful tool that doesn't lock you in. And finally, while I am not testing Yosemite, I would think Audio Hijack will work with the new continuity features of iOS 8 and Yosemite. This means you can make a call on your iPhone, and record it on your Mac with Audio Hijack. If you have a carrier that offers HD Voice for instance, then you'll get brilliant sound doing that. Hope that's of some help. Audio Hijack is one of the coolest things about a Mac I reckon. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
On 25/08/2014, at 7:04 am, Jenine Stanley <dragonwalke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone used Call Recorder for Skype? If so, any thoughts? > > I'm wanting to do some interviews for recording and short of buying a phone > patch or hybrid, which I may eventually do, I'm open for suggestions. > Jenine Stanley > dragonwalke...@gmail.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
