Recording with sound off

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jr2000
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Recording with sound off

Post by jr2000 » Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:23 pm

I would like to be able to record events with my sound off so I don't have to listen when the event is on but can listen later. How can I do this?

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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by kozikowski » Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:53 pm

You posted in a section of the forum where we can't tell a thing about your system. It's a Mac, right? Turn the speakers down. On a Windows machine, you can turn down the speaker system with the icon on the lower right.

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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by jr2000 » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:38 pm

Thanks. I am working on a 64 bit PC with Windows 7. I can control sound volume and on and off from my keyboard. The volume state is reflected on the Windows icon on the lower right of my screen. When I lower the sound, it is reflected on the amplitude of the recorded wave pattern and leads to a lower recorded sound. How can I mute the sound and still record?

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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by kozikowski » Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:49 pm

That snaps up right back to not enough information. What exactly are you recording?

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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by jr2000 » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:48 am

it is an "online audio event" here is the source: <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.2011tappingworldsummit.com/w ... _1%7C1%7C3" style="" id="wasp1102121217" name="wasp1102121217" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="lt" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" menu="false" wmode="opaque" flashvars="fp=http://www.2011tappingworldsummit.com/w ... _1%7C1%7C3" width="250" height="18">

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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by kozikowski » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:56 am

OK, so you're recording audio playing on the computer. That involves many tricks to get the playback and record sides of the machine running at once. I don't remember this being a problem, but I'm not shocked that it's happening. When I record on my machine, I have to be careful not to do anything that makes electronic sound (like email arriving "dong") because the sound will get burned into the show.

So unless somebody corrects me, that's the way it works. If you have local external control over your speakers like I do, that's the solution.

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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by Trebor » Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:47 pm

kozikowski wrote: When I record on my machine, I have to be careful not to do anything that makes electronic sound (like email arriving "dong") because the sound will get burned into the show.
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Re: Recording with sound off

Post by lturudic » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:15 pm

There are two handles, first go to edit-prefrences, selected recording and uncheck playthrought software. Another way to involve listening is on to the selection of the input level meter (the microphone icon on the toolbar) and turn monitoring on start (unlikely).

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