No Audacity Output Heard When Zoom is Running

[JenkinsEar]

And yes - using Sony headphones with Bluetooth to laptop.

[kozikowski]

this whole thing is a voyage of discovery for us.

That's good. Can I use that? Can you hear the music bed behind that? Three-masted schooner for visual.

As from a couple of messages ago, during the segment performance, when you can't hear anything on the main Zoom, that's when you listen to the second Zoom machine. Then, at the end of the segment, immediately stop Audacity (which you said has a good recording) and play it back for review.

Export as needed—and use WAV, not MP3. MP3 degenerates as you edit it.

Koz

[JenkinsEar]

And in that configuration, where are you suggesting that Audacity runneth? I'm thinking second (monitor) machine - right?

[kozikowski]

I'm thinking second (monitor) machine - right?

Nope. First machine. You said the only problem with the first machine was you couldn't hear the mixed show being recorded, but everybody else in the Zoom could. The second machine is one of the "other people." Now you can hear, too, because you're two different people/Zooms.

Managing the headsets is up to you.

I have seen complex productions where The Director is wearing two different headsets, one mic on the left and one on the right.

Koz

[JenkinsEar]

You're absolutely right: I just ran with Zoom, Audacity, and SCS running on laptop, and also attended the Zoom meeting on an iPad. Audacity successfully recorded audio I played in laptop from the SCS app, and I could hear it on the iPad. When I played the audio in Audacity, it was also audible on the iPad.

That leaves me, as you said, to find a way to manage headsets/headphones. As long as I don't need to hear the recording playback, then we may be ok. And if, as a practical matter, that becomes necessary, I'll have to devise a plan B of some sort.

Many, many thanks for sticking with me on this!

[kozikowski]

Many, many thanks for sticking with me on this!

I need to lie down for a while.

Koz