Current Setup : Pioneer FLX4 - USB-C into Macbook (M1, MacOS Ventura 13.3 - 3.5mm & 1/4 cable into Alto TS415 speaker
I’m a DJ and working on getting my mixes recorded. On my first attempt, I did not use Blackhole audio, and only external audio got recorded so it sounded distant, HOWEVER, there were no interruptions in my audio, like when using BlackHole.
After trying BlackHole (to solve the need for a direct audio recording/not distant one), I found that I got the sound I needed, but the audio in Audacity records for 5-10 minutes, then stop for the same amount of time, then restarts the cycle again. All of my sample rates are the same. Not sure if this an Audacity issue or other. The only possible issues I can think of are a faulty/loose cable connection between my mixer and macbook, or a fault/loose 3.5mm to 1/4 cable. Someone on a different thread mentioned maybe something on the computer is giving a notification every 5-10 minutes, or maybe something that uses the power in the house is affecting the supply for the speaker (like the AC running on a set schedule).
(Not sure if the following issue is playing a part but..) Currently I don’t have any issues with the connection from mixer to mac, but something is up between the mac and the speaker, because the audio does sound 8bit-distorted/crunchy at certain parts of certain song. HOWEVER, this does not occur when playing music on the speaker via bluetooth.
Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.
Where does your sound come from? You need Blackhole only if you want to record sound directly from your computer (e.g. Youtube-videos etc.). You can open music files (AIFF, WAV, MP3, etc.) using Audacity.
What do you mean by saying “it sounded distant”? Did you record sound coming out of your computer loudspeakers via the internal (or via an external) microphone?
You probably shoud get your sound in via the USB port of your Mac - to do so, you would need some device which converts the analog sound to digital / USB, if your mixer cannot do this. It is called “external sound card”; and some people here recommend a device called Behringer UCA-202. But there are others as well.
In my setup (macOS Sonoma), Blackhole works perfectly. What version of Audacity and what version of Blackhole are you using?
I am using a platform called Rekordbox, which has a sound library in it. I load a song on recordbox and it loads to my DJ board. In record box my output audio is set to go to the blackhole channel, and in audacity the audio is being received from blackhole.
Yes, it sounded like I recorded the sound coming out of my computer somehow.
Audacity 3.7.3, Blackhole 0.6.1
upgrading my OS to ventura 13.7 seemed to do the trick!
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