Audio January 28, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , trackbackFor a change from all the read/write stuff, I’ve finally got around to upgrading some of my audio capabilities. The griffiniMic purchased last year came out of its packaging and was connected to the USB hub trailing from my Mac mini. A computer microphone and speakers were plugged into the iMic, and everything started working straight away.
I couldn’t find a simple sound recording program on my computer so I started up garageband and tried that. After a bit of searching about for the editing and effects options, I was ready to go with my first live recording omto the mac. It’s a short burst of my version of Joe Cocker’s version of ‘with a little help from my friends’. Learning how to use iTunes to convert the aiff to mp3 took as long again, but good enough is good enough, so publish and move on.
Next to install Skype and attempt a Voice over Internet call. I tried to register with variations of my own name but as usual, one of the other 350,000 Andy Roberts had already taken them all. So I fell back on an old one, “magpiecrow” - that’s the name to add to your contacts please. Skype me.
I called lindiop and it was quite nice having a good quality voice coming from the computer speakers instead of a telephone, although the feedback and delay is a bit offputting. I don’t really like making telephone calls but this particular technology is probably going to be essential to my plans so I’ll have to find a way at least to put up with it.
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Try Audcacity (free open source audio editor) for audio recording, editing, saving to MP3:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/