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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?"
I reckon you should try asking at www.gamerswithjobs.com two guys there used to do a High Quality Pod cast Show together, via Skype.
Jennifer, you basically have two options. One would be to record it on your computer (which I assume is a Mac because that's what the Audio 85 is designed for) using a utility like Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. The other way would be to use splitter cables for both the audio in and out and use a separate recording device, like a minidisc player or another computer, to record.
I'm curious though, what method for recording were you using before (that resulted in the hissing)?
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Try using Gizmo instead of Skype. Gizmo has the built-in ability to record conversations to disk.
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...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