Audacity Forum

Hey guys,

I'm trying to record a podcast where I can record both the audio out and also the internal mic (I know, it'll sound bad). How would I go about doing that? I already have soundflower. It keeps on giving me Default Input Source as the only input source available, which I assume is the internal mic.
http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/

Can somebody tell me how to do it?

I've never tried to use SoundFlower with Audacity 1.2.6. I'd recommend upgrading to 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac

Next, see this page on setting up SoundFlower to record "what you hear" - http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User: ... ming_audio

Finally, to be able to record both SoundFlower and the internal mic you probably need to set up an Aggregate Device in Audio MIDI Setup.

-- Bill

Yes, Audacity 1.3.12, and of course, you'll be wearing headphones to take one complication out of the picture.

The Mac internal mic isn't dreadful, particularly if you have an SSD instead of a spinning disk. The computer becomes remarkably quiet.

I can record both the audio out and also the internal mic

What's on the Audio Out? If it's Skype, you'll be fighting the Skype audio management the whole way. Skype became very successful by almost always working. They get that kind of reliability by viciously reassigning the computer sound pathways when it works, and it pretty much doesn't make any difference what you want.

This is a very common request: "I need to record both sides of a live Skype interview. How do I do that?" In Windows land, they have software that creates additional sound services -- a virtual sound card -- in memory and use that. It's money-based software. I don't know any Mac software.

Koz