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On Apr 1, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> How are you concurrently connecting the mic and the reader to record? Are you 
> using a mixer or a dual-input preamp? If it were me I'd do it with something 
> like the ART USB DualPre. Mic goes in one input, Reader goes in the other and 
> then record just from the USB audio device. No voiceover will ever get into 
> the audio stream being recorded.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 3/30/13 10:01 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
>> Hi:
>> I'm trying to record myself speaking, and the sound output from a Victor 
>> Reader Stream. I have a MBP 2010. I do have an Oak external mike that will 
>> go in the mike jack on my MBP. I do not want to hear VO because this needs 
>> to sound professional. Thanks for the assistance.
>> On Mar 30, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>>>>>>>> 
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