Dear Audacity Technical
Thanks for your fine Audacity Audio Recorder System and great Audacity Forum at http://forum.audacityteam.org/
In reading the above comments on this page, I find that they do not really explain how to record BOTH the caller’s voice AND the voice on the other end, when MagicJack is used with Audacity:
Thus, I below tell how I have SUCCESSFULLY DONE THIS:
After I got my ~6 year old MagicJackPlus, going on my new Windows 10 computer (4 GB RAM), I did my best (several times) to carefully follow various Audacity trouble-shooting instructions I happened to find on the internet.
My experience at this point was exactly as stated by Mr Cybersum = “I am recording only my voice with AUDACITY, it does not record the other party, even if I have MIKE and SPEAKER set to USB INTERNET PHONE.” Thus after several hours, I had to give up, and search harder for a “way”:
In explaining my lack of success to my daughter, she kept saying use an external microphone. This was a method I had been avoiding, because I expected that the person’s voice on the other end, would first have to go through the laptop speakers, yielding low quality recording of other person’s voice, plus pick up various background noises, around my house.
BUT, since I had exhausted all other choices (even using other computer recorders as an alternate to Audacity, even constructing my own Phone To Laptop Microphone Adapter Circuit), I finally grabbed my salvaged Logitech USB Microphone, and plugged it in, placing it near my laptop speakers. This was done with almost no thought, because of my four full-days struggle on this. had ingrained a failure attitude of “Well here goes nothing!!”
At this point I had already set Audacity to “MME” and “Handset USB Internet Phone”, and Mic record volume to max. I am using Windows 10, on a Dell Latitude E6410 Laptop. My Audacity was an internet down load on 31 March 2016, = audacity-win-2.1.0.exe
VOLA!!! This turns out to be very successful.
But I needed to hold the USB microphone ~1 inch from my mouth, and speak loudly, to give acceptable results. This is because, in test calls to my daughter’s cell phone, she said my voice was weak and hollow barrel sounding, suggesting “hold close & speak loudly”.
In thinking through all this, I conclude the use of the USB Microphone, was a lucky break, for these reasons:
- I grabbed it because, and this is a relatively hi-gain mic, and I was worried about not enough volume. And as it turned out, this ‘s hi gain was indeed needed!!
- Apparently (somehow), the USB system, as exists in my laptop, equally sends (into Audacity), the USB Mic AND the “USB Internet Phone” (ie the MagicJack Phone). This is exactly what is needed, and something Audacity SoftWare (as is now programmed), otherwise can’t do.
- This 2) is a direct internal electrical connection, automatically created, and does not involve loss of sound quality or worry of house noises.
- AND contrary to my expectations, this above set-up, does not need to run either my voice or “other person’s voice, thru the loud-speakers”, and consequent loss of quality.
- In fact, I can conduct my MagicJack calls, with headphones plugged-in (thus loud-speakers shut off), and USB Mic very close to my mouth:
- Now concerning the MagicJack Call Operation, it is important to recognize, that the USB Microphone was automatically connected to a) MagicJack, as well as b) the earphones, which I had plugged in.
- All the time, Audacity does a great job recording, EQUALLY AS WELL BOTH sides of conversation, with adequate signal levels, shown on Audacity wave-form display.
So, there you have my story:
I truly hope this will be a help to Audacity Users, to record MagicJack their conversations!!
Any questions? Hope to hear from you!! Please email => HenryG __ USCA.edu
Google my full name below, to see my University Home Page.
AND please email the above to your friends, and post to your favorite webpage or tech forum!
Sincerely
Henry S Gurr
Professor of Physics Emeritus,
University of South Carolina Aiken,
471 University Parkway,
Aiken South Carolina 29801