Chris. When you went in to system preferences and changed the default
output to your head set, did you then also change output on the mic
session to default output rather then silence output? You need to do
this. You will hear your voice echoing back while you record, which
is very annoying, but I know of no way around this.
Darcy
On 5-Sep-08, at 7:20 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Guys,
I am totally! at a loss.
I have a power Mac G4, running Tiger O S 10.4.11.
Because the mike jack on the logic board has no pre amp built into
it, I am using my Logitech U S B headset.
I tried to record both my system audio, as well as my mike at the
same time, as I wanted to make a friend a demo of how a few programs
worked on the Mac with Voice Over. Well, this is when all hell
froze over.
I installed audio Hi Jack, and licensed it with my key. OK, that
worked fine.
I then went and tried to create a new session for system audio. I
installed both instant Hijack, and also the Sound Flower Driver. I
then logged out and back in, as it requested. I then reopened audio
Hijack, and went to the default audio session, which was already in
the component list. I set that up by saying silence audio. Now you
need to understand, before I go any further. I had in system
preferences, in Tiger, not in AHJ, but in Tiger itself, I have it
set where the default output is head phones, as I have my head phone
jack on the tower set where my pc speakers are running through it.
So that's all good. then in system prefs, I have it set, where the
Logitech USB head set is the default input device, and it's turned
up to about 80 percent on the input. If I use audasity or the like,
my mike records perfectly. It even sounds flawless in Skype, so I
know for a fact the mike does work. Now I present you with the few
senarios in Hijack that I did.
In the default input session, under audio output, I set that to
silence audio. I did that as while recording, I really didn't wanna
hear my mike echoing back to myself, and not only that, but being
that my head phones are on that head set which is u s b, If I set
the mike to default output, it would go through my speakers since
they're seen as another audio output device, quite obviously. Well,
I have to hear my speech, which would mean the speakers would have
to be turned up, which means, ear screeching feedback from the
mike. So yeah, that's why I said ni madres! I am so! not doing
that if I can help it. So that's why I set that to silence audio
on the output of the default audio session.
OK, so, all's good there. So I set that, then I went to system
audio, and hijacked it.
I then went back to default input, and secondly hijacked that as
well. Then, I went back to system audio, and hit record.
Well, that sure as heck worked for getting the voice over speech,
however I couldn't hear my mike at all.
So, then, I went and only hijacked system audio, then while still on
system audio, hit record. Again, no mike, only speech.
Thirdly, I then only hijacked default input, and hit record. Sure
enough, my mike recorded, but no speech.
That's kind a what I had suspected being I didn't have system audio
hijacked too.
So then I did the first senario again, only backwards.
This time, instead of firstly highjacking system audio, I high
jacked default audio first, then I did system audio. Then while
still on system audio, i hit record. Again, it did no good. That
again, gave me speech, no mike.
So then, I hijacked the mike, then highjacked system audio, went
back to the audio default input, and hit record on that session.
Looky do: I got mike, no speech.
I then came to a theory of, well? wait a minute. Maybe I need to
set the mike to actually not be silenced as if it's silenced then
there is no monitoring output for system audio to capture. So,
What I did, so I'd still hear speech but get no feedback, is, I
went in tiger to system prefs, and switched it so that my default
output no longer was headphones, but now was Logitech USB headset.
So now, my sound came through my headset instead of the speakers.
OK, mission there accomplished. Now I went back to AHJ, and did all
the exact same senarioes as above. I got the exact same results.
I wonder if after hijacking system audio, then the mike, then
recording on system audio, I wonder if then I gotta go back to
default input, and vo over to the mute button, and vo space on it.
I wonder if the Mike may a been muted. I don't think so though, as
I could hear it through my head phones, as I spoke, coming back to me.
Yeah, I did buy this to record skype calls and such which does work
very very well over here, however the main reason I bought this
thing was to do speech and mike at the same time so I could make
audio tutorials. Well, that's just not happenin. Please, I
earnestly beg of anyone who successfully has gotten Hijack Pro to
work with speech and mike at the same time, and come on, I know it
can be done, as I know summa you who've done it. If one of yall
could call me and let's try to work together through this and see if
we can't get to the bottom a this. I gotta lotta recordings I've
promised people but no way a doing them. Plus more importantly, I
don't wanna have waisted my money. I wrote tech support, but
they've not gotten back with me, and this is about the third time
I've written them. Not saying they're not responsive, only saying
from my experience alone, they've not gotten back. Anyway, if we
must do e-mail and not phone, then be sure you are explicitly clear,
on every little detail as nitty gritty as you can be to make this
work. If you don't know for sure what the deal is but have a few
theories a things we can try, even if you just write me and say, ok,
Chris, try this for me and tell me what it does. I'm opened to try
anything. I wanna do the phone as that way you can interactively
guide me on what to do, but if you can't do phone, then so be it.
It is my preference though.
I normally don't give out my number, and I know this probably will
go to the list archives, but, you know, it's fine, really. I don't
have a problem with it. If someone calls and harasses me, not that
yall will, but if it happens, it happens. Lotta you may feel
different bout that, but I'm not hear to argue. I say: it's fine.
Just call me. I really don't care.
704-817-8846.
Thank you.
Chris.
