Need help playing with recording interviews
If there is anyone out there that is interested I need to practice recording an interview using Skype! All I need you to do in install Skype , get a microphone connected to your computer, and we can give it a try. THIS will be a really cool tool for instructors who want interviews recorded for their class. Skype is a free "voice over internet protocol" (VoIP) tool so once we are done with the test you can get granny hooked up and call her for free.Following along together, here are the steps I am going to attempt for this test! (attempt being the operative word)
(1) SET UP AUDACITY
Get Audacity from audacity.sourceforge.net; Run Audacity; Go to File -> Preferences -> Digital I/O -> Recording and choose a Digital Audio-class device rather than an Input-class device (which will replace microphone input with combined microphone **and** speaker recording); choose to record two channels of stereo; finally, close Preferences, and choose Wave Out Mix as the source of signal on the main window of Audacity;
(2) SET UP THE SOUND DRIVER
Go to Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Volume -> Advanced and make sure the microphone is not muted; you may also want to click on Advanced settings for the microphone and check MIC Boost to amplify your voice.
(3) USE AUDACITY AND SKYPE
During a conversation, you can start recording in Audacity at any point (big red button ); Audacity allows to export recordings in WAV, MP3, and OGG formats; for MP3s, you will need to find lame_enc.dll on Google (LAME is an excellent MP3 encoder).
posted by Alice Few @ 3:22 PM
1 Comments:
Alice note to self -
I think there's an easier way than this.
1) Skype Options, Handset, disable auto sound setting
2) Open Windows mixer, unmute the microphone. Set low. Set Wave Out to the same level
3) Open Windows Mixer record, select Wave out mix. Set low.
4) Install Audacity with the Lame MP3 encoder
5) Set Audacity to 44Khz, 16 bit mono
6) Set MP3 encoding to 64K or 32 K
7) Start Audacity recording
8) Use Skype to call Echo123 for testing.
9) Stop recording, check it and then Export to MP3
10) Done.
The trick is geting the levels right so that there's no clipping. Audacity has lots of effects too. And it's all free.
Posted by: Julian Bond at December 21, 2004 03:58 AM
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