Turned it on, and the over modulation to Bart’s voice was back.īy now an hour had passed. But to be sure it wasn’t something weird in my complex Audio Hijack setting, I created a completely new recording session in Audio Hijack, with just Skype into my headphones and into a recorder. It looked like we had narrowed the problem down to Audio Hijack as the root cause. Finally I tried quitting Audio Hijack but staying in the Skype call, and suddenly Bart’s audio was perfect. We both quit and restarted Skype, which often clears many ills. We did a screen share so I could see what he was fiddling with but the audio was still awful. Skype also has a “feature”, and I put that in air quotes on purpose, that automatically amplifies your volume randomly without warning. On his end, at the very least his input volume and mic selection was controlled by the macOS sound preference pane, and Skype has duplicate controls that have to be checked. When doing this kind of recording, there are so many different places your audio gets controlled. I asked him to check all of his settings first. Ok, that last bit might be a bit of an exaggeration, but trust me, it wasn’t what you’d have wanted to listen to. It was clipped and over modulated, like having shards of glass driven into my ears. Immediately, I told him that his audio was horrible. On Friday afternoon, Bart and I jumped on Skype to do a recording of Programming By Stealth. I know, I should read the release notes on something so critical to my process before installing an update, but I find that I rarely understand what developers say they’ve done anyway, so I always just blindly hit update. Last week Rogue Amoeba pushed out update 3.3.3 of Audio Hijack. Audio Hijack is essential for the creation of the Podfeet Podcasts. I can also send the audio to a recorder to capture an uncompressed audio file. I can route the audio back to my headphones so I can monitor my own voice for any problems along with that of my partner on the show. With Audio Hijack I can capture the audio of a Skype call and my voice on two separate tracks, add effects like an equalizer and a compressor. I create the podcast recordings completely without a complicated hardware mixer. Audio Hijack, as the name implies, hijacks the audio on your Mac, allowing you to route it in interesting ways. I’ve talked about Audio Hijack quite a bit on the show, but to bring everyone up to speed, it’s the absolute center point to how I create the podcast. That company is Rogue Amoeba, the makers of Audio Hijack. I would normally write a huge diatribe about those that didn’t meet my expectations, but instead I’m going to tell you about the gold standard in support. This has given me the “opportunity” to compare reactions of companies when I tell them about the problems. Lately I’ve run into a slew of tech problems, finding bugs in just about everything, hardware and software.
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