Hi Sarai, I'm not sure what you're trying to record or what your Mac configuration is (Mac Mini or laptop Mac, available USB ports, line-in, etc.). Are you saying that you're using your line-in to connect the input sound device to your computer, so you don't have a way to independently monitor the sound level coming in with your headphones? You can use a Griffin iMic to let you plug your input or output audio source into the iMic and connect to your Mac through a USB port. These run for about $25 at Amazon, and mine dates from when I got my first Mac and wanted to digitize old cassette tapes, so it's about 8 years old and still works. I used the iMic with Amadeus Pro to record. You could also put a Y-connector on your audio source so you can hook in headphones that way. There's also a very convenient free program, named "LineIn", that you can download from the Rogue Amoeba freebies page: http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/
You can use this app to direct the sound output that you've plugged into your line-in to your Mac's speakers. Most recording and editing programs have a pass-through feature for this kind of monitoring, but this function is not built into the Mac's audio system by default. Select Input from Built-In Line In and send Output to Default System Output. Then VO-Space on the "pass-thru" checkbox. If you are using Audio Hijack Pro for multiple sources, you generally first hijack system audio, and then individual applications. If you want to hijack the system audio without VoiceOver, you'll have to mute VO. As Teresa says, I don't think you can leave VoiceOver out of the system audio recordings. Here's another suggestion. Many of the questions you are asking came up when Anna Dresner joined the list for a brief time four years ago. She wanted to make a teaching podcast using Audio Hijack Pro, although she actually both wanted to have a demo of an iPod device, and record with VoiceOver. Use the Mail Archive web search for this list. I'll point you to one of the archived posts I gave her in reply, pointing her to an old podcast about using Audio Hijack Pro: • Re: creating a teaching podcast http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg06213.html In addition to reading that page for content, navigate to the search text box and type in: from:Woody hijack and press return. There are less than a dozen results. (She posted as "Woody Anna Dresner", so I used the first word as the argument for the "from:" search keyword, which has a colon immediately after the word. You can use any word in the posting name to search by the poster, or the full name if you put the entire name in quotation marks, but it's best to choose a word that gives unique results.) Activate the links with the various post subjects to read the full posts, then read up or down the threads with Control-N or Control-P. You'll get most of the questions she asked and the responses on topics like how best to stop the recording, and was there any way to get rid of the 30 second delay in listening to combined hijacked tracks. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 30 Mar 2013, at 09:47, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Unfortunantly, VO gets recorded. Unless I can edit out VO from the background. > On Mar 30, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As far as I'm aware, an application will not be recorded unless you >> specifically choose it. As for recording system audio without VO, I'm not >> sure if that's possible, as I haven't done it. I mostly record radio >> programs, so I use application sources. You can specify several of them in >> one session, but unless you choose VO, it won't be recorded, as far as I'm >> aware. >> >> HtH, >> Teresa >> On Mar 30, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I need to record the device and I don't want to hear VO in the recordings. >>> I'm new to this, if you can't tell. LOL. >>> On Mar 30, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I don't understand. Why would the need to record audio from another >>>> device prevent you from using headphones? >>>> >>>> Ricardo Walker >>>> >>>> On Mar 30, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi: >>>>> I need to figure out how to stop AHP from picking up Voiceover. I cannot >>>>> use headphones b/c I need to record the sound from another device. Any >>>>> tips? >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
