Need to fix reverb in recorded interview

[kozikowski]

Totally. Pamela used to be my go-to software until one forum poster had troubles...and Pamela threw in the towel.

Oooo. That was just not welcome news.

I cheated supersonically with that dual computer system, and the Pando Podcast did, too. Those MacBook Pro machines all have stereo line in and stereo line out connections. They will connect perfectly directly to a sound mixer with just a few cables.

Them days is gone forever. Nobody makes machines like that any more.

Had I been together about that photo shoot, I would have hidden the cables to make it look less like an explosion in a wire factory. That's what I did in this photo. Everybody knows there are power cords, you don't have to see them to make the point.



I wondered if someone else was making Skype recorder software.

Anybody check with Skype? Even if they have a paid package, it might be worth it. Pamela is paid.

because Skype changed something.

I can't stress enough Skype became the top conference software on earth by viciously and brutally managing your computer sound services. It doesn't matter how badly you mismanaged your computer, Skype always works.

The echo is too good and stable. I expect headphone leakage to sound more like squeezing a mouse and it might change depending on your head position. That echo is typical of the difference between the Recording and Playback sides of a conventional PC. Without going into even more detail, that echo is the reason you can't always record multi-instrument overdubs on a PC (play all the band instruments yourself).

Your experience is normal.

There is one other experience. Some people launch Skype and Audacity, make a perfect recording and go home. They're looking at the rest of us like we're nuts. Those people are celebrity unicorns. We hope to goodness they don't make a YouTube training video explaining how easy it is <cringe>.

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so we switched to Skype on the fly.

And that's the exact time you place the personal recorder on the table between you and the Skype speakers. Use Skype's terrific echo cancellation to do the heavy lifting.

Then later, when you have more time to mess with it, start dredging through the software solutions and other techniques.

More....

Koz

[kozikowski]

Whatever mixer you get must be able to perform Mix-Minus. It must actually be two mixers.

There's no easy way to explain this. The Skype computer gets everything on the mixer except the guest's own voice. Mix -- Minus their voice.

Since your microphone is part of the regular mix, the guest can hear it just fine. They don't hear their own voice which would be in terrific echo.

That's why Denise sounds like she's sitting on the sofa behind me. Skype is loafing.

I swear I have a graphic to illustrate how I did this...

Koz

[kozikowski]

But, no.

I think I remember what happened. I couldn't figure a way not to turn it into a class on sound recording. This doesn't boil down to two graphics and a comment.

I have a Peavey PV6, to answer you. I've been shooting paid gigs with it forever, so it was a natural. It might not be the best one for this job. It was available.

Do you remember the address of the other Skype user who did it through hardware?

Koz

[kozikowski]

Any luck with the echo cancellation?

Koz

[kozikowski]

There is one other insane way to do this. You have a second computer join the conference...but it doesn't have a microphone. Its sole job is to record Skype. From its point of view, the Skype sound is the whole show.

We did that for a while, but people kept forgetting to start it....and then stop it.

"Did you remember to stop the recorder?"
"Oh, &$)(/!."

Koz