Audacity Forum

Newer computers tend not to have Stereo Mix at all. Chances are you're really recording one of your unused or unconnected inputs which will just give you electronic noise.

Audacity is a complete slave to what the computer is doing. What did you set your Windows Control Panel to?

Koz

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... mputer#Mac

We wrote a thing on SoundFlower that I can't find.

Koz

If your voice is that distinctive, then you could be a presenter. You don't have to sound like Don Lafontaine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMGS7l0wT8

Koz

A different approach - Do you have a friend to help you out? No friends? You can use SoundFlower software to record anything playing on your mac. I have licenses for WireTap Studio which is a much more serious recorder with timers and show management (but I no longer recommend it). Audio Hijack is ...

Broadcasting people do this with SMPTE Time Code. http://www.ggvideo.com/ese_es456.php That's the field reader. SMPTE is an audio signal that you can put on track 2 of a stereo show with track 1 carrying the show. Older videotape machines used to use the cue track. Newer tape machines have their own...

It does get little complicated if your Mac doesn't look like this...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg

Koz

You may need to tell your Mac that it's there. Desktop > Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Line-In or Built-In-Input. Make music and the bouncing blue ball sound meter should kick. Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Input > Built-In Input, 2-Chanel Stereo. Start a test recording...

Now you know why the grownups use headphones and a multi-bus/multi-channel mixing board to keep the tracks separate. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/wynonna2.jpg You can do some of this yourself by using headphones direct to the computer and then selecting "Play Tracks while Recording New Ones&q...

That's a very popular Feature Request. We can't do it, but it's popular to ask for it.

And yes, I once played both male and female parts by getting up close to the microphone to do the breathy female voice.

One of the producers asked me who I got to do the woman's part.

Koz

And, how do you record with an iPod????

As they are so fond of telling us, there's an App for that.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/italk-re ... 73304?mt=8

Koz