9/07/2005 07:49:00 AM|||Joe|||Wow. Podcasting is complicated stuff.

Here's what I'm trying to set up. I want to have a conference call over the internet, and I want myself and the people I'm talking to to hear any music or sound effects I play. However, I want to be able to turn off monitoring my own voice. More specifically, I want to be able to turn it on and off at whim. So that everyone hears the music and each other, but not themselves. Except I can choose to hear myself temporarily so I can make sure my volume is reasonable.

This is apparently extremely complicated.

Here's what I'm using. For voice calls, I'm using Skype. For music and sound effects I'm using either Quicktime Player or iTunes. To record all this I'm using Audio Hijack Pro.

First obstacle is that it's not entirely clear whether Skype for Mac supports conference calls. When using the program, my understanding was that that feature was only present on windows, but apparently I was mistaken, so that's good. I must have an older version of Skype, though I was sure I didn't.

Second is getting Audio Hijack Pro configured to do what I described above. This has given me the biggest headache so far. At one point I got it so that we could both hear the music. However, I couldn't turn self-monitoring off and when I recorded, the audio was not present in the mix.

So I'm still working on that. It's complicated enough to make me want to punch things. And even when it starts to work, sort of, there is some major latency. And I've actually managed, after a year and a half, to lock up my mac. Yay audio.

I think I'm going to reinstall OS X Tiger. Long story why. But it's a pain to do that. Ugh. So if anyone has a huge USB drive lying around, I'll give you a cookie if you loan it to me for a day or two.

Shooting skits is 1000% easier than this junk.|||112610497650975755|||Podcasting, Audio Hijack