Hi Darcy, this is golden. I have a hardware mixer so haven't had cause to play with this much, but I'll save this info should I ever need it. Thanks for writing it up so clearly. Really great stuff. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 23/01/2015, at 10:15 pm, Darcy Burnard <dhsda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. Earlier tonight, I listened to Jonathan Mosen's excellent demo of the > new Audio Hijack 3. Jonathan mentioned that it was possible to record just > VoiceOver and the microphone without recording system audio. Well I managed > to accomplish this, so I thought I'd write up how I did it, in case other > people may want to do this. > My goal was to have three output files. I wanted an isolated VoiceOver > track, an isolated microphone track, and a mix of the two. I probably would > only ever need the mix, but if the levels were really uneven, I could fix it > later with the isolated tracks. Also, I wanted to ensure that while I was > recording, I didn't hear the mic echoing back. > > In order to record VoiceOver, you need two application source blocks. One > for VoiceOver, and one for com.apple.speech. If you just do VoiceOver, all > you get are the VO sound effects. In order to select those apps, when you're > in the pop over for the source block, and you're focussed on the choose > application popup button, route your mouse there, and do an option click. > This shows you all the running applications that are normally hidden. Note > that when you set up those two source blocks, you need to make sure the "fill > gaps with silence" checkbox is checked in the advanced section of the pop > over. If you don't do this, the audio from VO and the audio from your mic > will quickly go out of sync. > > I think the best way to explain the session will be to first describe how it > works, followed by the block layout with co-ordinates. First we have our two > VO source blocks. These are arranged vertically. They are both connected to > our output device block. This ensures that we can hear VoiceOver once the > session is running. This output block, goes to a record block. You might > change the output file name created by this block to something like VoiceOver. > > A few rows down from those blocks, we have our microphone source block. This > connects to a second record block. You might have the files created by this > block called something like Microphone. > Between these two sections of blocks, we have a third record block. Our > other two record blocks connect here. Call the files created by this block > something like Mixed. > > So here is the actual block layout for the session. > x1 y1: application source block: com.apple.speech > x2 y1: device output block: probably your headphones > x3 y1: record block, VoiceOver > x1 y2: application source block: VoiceOver > x4 y2: record block, Mixed > x1 y4: device source block: microphone > x2 y4: record block, Microphone > > If you lay out the blocks like that, all the connections should happen > properly. > > Well hopefully that made at least some sort of sense. If it didn't, it's > probably my fault, as I'm writing this at 4 in the morning. Which now that I > think about it, probably wasn't one of my brightest ideas. > Darcy > > -- > 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.
