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no, really: how?
Jul. 17th, 2010 01:30 pm.
I was trying, again, to record audio using Audacity, the audio program you're more or less stuck with when you have a Macintosh. This time, instead of recording from my turntable through Line In, I was trying to record from an audio stream. The result was the same as always: horrible, echo-y sound with feedback and every room noise.
It's pretty clear that the built-in microphone is working really hard. Don't worry, Master! it seems to say, I'll record every sound, despite the fact that you have carelessly selected another input and turned me all the way down!
Yes, it's the Return of the Demented Servant. The Mac insists on doing things for me that I not only didn't ask for, but which I specifically asked it not to do.
Googling up forums where the question is asked, I see two or three answers. (1) Go to preferences and choose Line In instead of Internal microphone. That was the first thing I tried. Audacity laughs that off. It only knows one input, and that's the microphone.
(2) Open the "Audio Devices" utility. Turn the microphone all the way down. Mute it. Select the other input. Turn it up. Have done; am doing. Audacity snorts derisively at this silly move by Dear Master to deter it from what it knows must be done, and uses its machine language to tell the computer that I didn't really mean that but have been corrupted by some evil PC to try and mess up the proper functioning of the wonderful microphone that is Audacity's best friend ever.
(3) Plug something into the input jack. This will disable the microphones. Ha. That may disable ordinary microphones, but not these guys! They will not be deterred from their mission of always putting sound through to their pal Audacity.
1+2! 1+3! 2+3! 1+2+3! Same result! Echoes, feedback, and room noises!
Any suggestions? (Please don't suggest drugs. If I could, I'd already be on it.)
.
I was trying, again, to record audio using Audacity, the audio program you're more or less stuck with when you have a Macintosh. This time, instead of recording from my turntable through Line In, I was trying to record from an audio stream. The result was the same as always: horrible, echo-y sound with feedback and every room noise.
It's pretty clear that the built-in microphone is working really hard. Don't worry, Master! it seems to say, I'll record every sound, despite the fact that you have carelessly selected another input and turned me all the way down!
Yes, it's the Return of the Demented Servant. The Mac insists on doing things for me that I not only didn't ask for, but which I specifically asked it not to do.
Googling up forums where the question is asked, I see two or three answers. (1) Go to preferences and choose Line In instead of Internal microphone. That was the first thing I tried. Audacity laughs that off. It only knows one input, and that's the microphone.
(2) Open the "Audio Devices" utility. Turn the microphone all the way down. Mute it. Select the other input. Turn it up. Have done; am doing. Audacity snorts derisively at this silly move by Dear Master to deter it from what it knows must be done, and uses its machine language to tell the computer that I didn't really mean that but have been corrupted by some evil PC to try and mess up the proper functioning of the wonderful microphone that is Audacity's best friend ever.
(3) Plug something into the input jack. This will disable the microphones. Ha. That may disable ordinary microphones, but not these guys! They will not be deterred from their mission of always putting sound through to their pal Audacity.
1+2! 1+3! 2+3! 1+2+3! Same result! Echoes, feedback, and room noises!
Any suggestions? (Please don't suggest drugs. If I could, I'd already be on it.)
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