Charles you ask quite a technical answer.
Firstly teamtalk at www.bearware.dk is quite a good system to use.
the servers onj2.andrelouis.com and onj3.andrelouis.com have good chanels.
they are british hosted servers though.
You may at times have delays but mostly they work in new zealand quite well.
As ofr soundcards.
you will need at least 2 cards.
The first card is for your speech, you need that.
and windows sounds.
you could probably have game related stuff and other junk on the
other maybe even 3 would be needed.
There is software called vertual cable but never invested in it.
so your internal card and another or so.
I have a usb headset which does the chatting I do, as it cuts out on
bus noise and the like being its a seperate hardware device.
Leaving your system to handle stuff.
the only thing is you will need to send speech to the earphones or
well not sure you can have splitters to hear your gameplay etc but even then.
You would need some sort of mixer then it gets complex.
Your best bet is to get a crappy analog sound card if you can find
one at all since that will most sertainly be able to run the mic at
the same time as you record.
SOme of the cheap crappy realtech cards may help to but not via.
Is this stuff for active recording or static.
if its active being in a chat room, then you may have to spend some
major cash to get that sorted.
without recording though you probably could play stuff in a chat as
long as you had a mixer or 2 units, one for chatting and 1 for gaming
logged on as different user units.
If you are doing a static meaning recording game and speech you can
do it in a couple ways.
1. you can record the game and speech on your card assuming it supports this.
2. you can record with a digital recorder and speakers the game and
speech but you will get backgrounds and relitive positions of speakers only.
The other way you can do it is to cheat.
Record the game in the computer and record your speech whle playing
on a recorder.
making sure enough pauses are in there to line up with gameplay, I
only got this once.
then all you need to do is tweak volumes of both files and merge them.
then tweak the merged volume.
I once got a review of a comanche game I put for a podcast someone
gave me a file in 2 bits done this way.
it took a while to do.
you need to decompress a file to wav before you can edit it right
then you need to use something sound recorder to screw round with the file.
then audacity to bind the file.
finally you need to use winlame to recode the file then reupload it.
This process is ok for the ocational project but not for something
like a big file.
or anything continous.
Another way is something that in theory should work.
have something like shoutcast or odcast output a broadcast archive
locally and not connect to a server.
then it records everything your card does.
however I have not tried this and am not in the position to do that.
you could manage that way but still be limited by the card things.
At 07:54 a.m. 25/05/2012 -0500, you wrote:
I would like to create some audio walk throughs to show others how I
go through games, playing the game while describing what I am
doing. I would also like to be able to go into a voice chat room
and run David Greenwood's GMA dice program and talk to people at the
same time, and have them hear the results of the dice rolls directly
from my PC.
I think I probably need sound card drivers, or maybe a new
card. I'm not sure what card to get, though, if necessary. I used
to have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live card, but it gave up the
dust. The Diamond card I currently have won't do what I would like
at this time.
On the Internet, I've found some programs that will search your PC
to see what drivers you have, search for the updates to them, and
install them. There's a catch. They want $30 for 2 years of service.
So, I'm looking for advice on the following: Where to easily find
drivers for my current Diamond card that I don't know the model
of, If I need a different card, the approximate cost and where to
find one, and what sound card you would recommend and why?
My machine is an old one. It was built in 2000 and uses a 1.9 gig
Intel Pentium 4 processor, and I am using Windows XP Home.
Any thoughts, on or off list, are greatly appreciated.
Also, if anyone has the original recording of the game demo that I
did for Tenpin Alley before ACB Radio did their terrible editing, I
sure would like to get a copy of it.
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