Slight echo - maybe a setting? Help with podcast

[kozikowski]

Probably because I'm a newbie.

Or more likely, the recording was in a bare room with echoes and reverb. In that case, nothing you do would ever line up.

The current style of bare, highly polished wood floors and featureless white walls is an aggressively hostile recording environment.

Koz

[cyrano]

did try to move the audio over to line it up, I was unable to get it to line up perfectly. Probably because I'm a newbie.

Even a pro will curse when getting a set of long recordings made like that.

There's no sync between your three recordings. Every recording will drift a tiny bit from the others.

Not a problem with a 5 minutes recording. BIG problem with a 2 hour recording.

No remote solution, unless you'd install something like Audinate's Dante (audio over network). But that will certainly clash with Skype.

Koz's multiple computer setup is what's used everywhere. Any old laptop will do for recording and you just need another one that's Skype capable. Even that doesn't need to be performant. I use a 2009 Mac, with just a core2duo processor and it does that fine. Hec, even a nearly 20 year old G4 Powerbook does the job, but Skype doesn't run on it.

Another solution is: don't use Skype. There are numerous VOIP solutions out there that give complete control over your audio. But not with Skype. Of course, this is overkill, especially since the future guests probably have used Skype and aren't used to a SIP-client.

You could also look into voice capabilities in HTML5. Your browser is an audio tool these days, capable of playing back and recording at least 8 channels. There are sites offering this kind of recording. Don't have any examples at hand. These seem to come and go.

[vfupodcast]

were going to try spreaker tomorrow nite, but also going to hope we can try spreaker and audacity at the same time, and use what's best. i'll experiment and report.

[kozikowski]

hope we can try spreaker and audacity at the same time

That's the one where everybody calls into Spreaker and they make the mix and recording, right? I don't see why it wouldn't work. Audacity will record your voice which is a service of the computer and available. Headphones mandatory.

Totally do post back if you get it to work. You can be the Spreaker SME on the forum.

Koz