Recording Skype Audio for Broadcast?

Jennifer Leonard asks: "I'm in desperate need of securing a way to record my Skype phone calls at broadcast quality. I just purchased a Plantronics Audio.85 headset with noise-reduction mic and 32-bit DSP ('enhances the audio signal for superior stereo sound and speech recognition') and used it for a phone conversation that's intended to be played for a radio show. What I got was totally unacceptable: the audio quality is horrible! There's a constant droney hiss sound over the entire track, which just ruins the interview. Unfortunately, my radio station doesn't have the capacity to do pre-recorded phone interviews. This is why I've had to go about doing it on my own. So far, what I've tried...sucks. Does anyone know how I can get broadcast quality audio by way of recorded Skype conversations?"

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I am the admin for a live online station...

[shadwwulf]

...and in my opinion, the first thing you need to do is drop Skype and get something more robust such as Asterisk.

I am the system admin for Wide Awakes Radio and we use a combination of Asterisk and Icecast to make our streams work. Asterisk is capable of DIRECTLY sourcing an Icecast server so it's an all digital audio path.

I highly recomend you check it out.

MTW