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Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:20 am
by Zonbi44
hi i recently made the switch to mac and used to use audacity. im trying to record audio from youtube and other sites but i don't want to use the built in microphone i want to record what ever is playing on my mac like i did on my pc how do i do that.
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:57 pm
by kozikowski
You can't use the microphone, either. I use WireTap. Your mileage may vary.
--Record Internet--
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... etap#p6120
Koz
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:12 pm
by Zonbi44
actually that's all i can use.i don't want to use the mic cuz there's too much reverb oh and it won't let me export as mp3
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:53 am
by steve
Zonbi44 wrote:...oh and it won't let me export as mp3
You need to have "lame" installed - see the main website for details:
http://audacityteam.org/manual-1.2/exportmp3.html
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:16 pm
by kozikowski
Macs will not let you play and record at the same time like Windows will--or at least not easily. The software packages in that link will let you capture anything that goes through the Mac. WireTap will let you do it on a schedule while you're not there.
That's a minor annoyance, but we don't get the howling feedback and echo problems and nightmare routing issues that Windows users get. About 2/3 of the Windows questions aren't about Audacity. They're how to set the Windows Control Panel.
Koz
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:43 pm
by Robert1014
You can also try downloading and installing free system extension Soundflower, as well as free app Soundsource. See my description in this thread elsewhere on this forum:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1675
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:56 pm
by somoffus
You might want to open your Mac Systems Preference Panel and go to SOUND Preferences, where it'll allow you to choose input and output sources and/or check Audacity Preferences and check the appropriate DEVICE option. I found this out the hard way, when on playback I continued to hear my vocal frustrations, obviously being picked up by the mic, whilst I was attempting to record from a turntable through a USB.
Re: Recording with out the built in mic.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:25 pm
by kozikowski
<<<obviously being picked up by the mic>>>
And sometimes not so obvious. More than one person has recorded the room speakers with the built-in mic instead of the actual performance. "My show has echoes and is muffled..."
If OS-X has enough trouble getting an external digital device to work, sometimes it will throw it's little hands in the air and switch to a known good working system mounted device--like the microphone.
Koz