2005-04-17 NOTE: Updated advanced setup with Skype integration: </hugo/2005/04/advanced_podcas.html>

Here’s another Howto for Podcasting on the Mac from Dave Slusher, Conway, South Carolina, USA.

Dave is using Audacity for recording whereas I have proposed Quicktime Broadcaster as a very stable recorder. It must be said that I don’t record shows myself yet so I guess I should start recording my trials for a reality check ;-)

Podcasting from Mac OS X - A Recipe: “Ingredients:

1 - Macintosh OS X computer

1 - Griffin iMic (for machines without a line-in input)

1 - Microphone

1 - Set of earphones or headphones

1 - copy each of the following pieces of software installed:
Audacity
Soundflower
Soundflowerbed
LineIn
Sound Source

Directions: Read the full article…”

(Via Evil Genius Chronicles.)

Comments

Author: S
Date: 2005-02-24 19:17:53

Hi Hugo,Many thanks for compiling all of this information for the rest of us fledgling podcasters. Quite the impressive studio you’ve got! I was wondering if you’ve ever had any problems with Soundflowerbed. I’ve been doing my recording on an iMac G5 with a Griffin iMic and using essentially the setup specified at engadget.com – except I was just recording with Audio Recorder instead of GarageBand. Anyway, after various configuration crashes and re-routing hacks, I seem to have killed Soundflowerbed. I can’t monitor either the 2ch or the 16ch on built-in audio or USB audio anymore. I’ve trashed and reinstalled to no avail. Very frustrating.

Anyway, I don’t mean to bother you with tech questions, I know you’re not a Help Desk, but if you’ve had this problem and found a fix, I’d love to hear it! It’s not really that important anymore, anyway; we was going to abandon ‘flowerbed because the latency was driving us nuts. On our first recording, my partner K sounded like a retard because I guess it’s pretty hard to speak clearly when you keep hearing yourself a quarter second later (and too much cider didn’t help!). Our new setup is basically: system audio output to Soundflower 16ch; system input doesn’t really matter, but iMic USB; iChatAV input to USB mic, output to Soundflower 16. Then, we record with AudioHijack: one hijack is input = Soundflower16, output = USB audio, monitor on; the second is input = USB audio, output = USB audio, but MUTE is on – so we don’t monitor our own voices. Once we’re all done, I open the two hijack sound files in Audacity and align the two tracks: the big bummer with AudioHijack is that you have to start each hijack independently, so there’s a few second offset between the two times you hit Record. I suppose I could eliminate that if I set both hijacks up to start on a schedule, but the nudge-method seems to work fine.

Anyway, as we build up our site I’ll be sure to link people your way for all the handy info. Keep up the good work!

Author: Rod
Date: 2005-03-06 04:50:44

Hey Hugo,I am starting a podcast and wonder if you could offer some advice. I am doing it on a Mac but it appears my iMac G3 wont run the sunflower stuff. My question though is I have a buddy in New York and I am in Ohio and we want to sound like we are in the same studio. Do you know if that is possible?

Let me know. ThanksRod

Author: Hugo
Date: 2005-02-24 21:16:54

Yes! This actually happened to me very recently, but only with Soundflower (2ch). It (SF 2) works, but I can’t monitor it with Soundflowerbed. Still looking for a solution but I’m also trying other things. A new description is in the works.

Author: Hugo
Date: 2005-02-24 21:38:00

Figured out the Soundflower problem! Open ‘Audio MIDI Setup’, go through all devices and set their ‘Format’ to 44100.0Hz. (Or: all the same.) I had some devices set to 48000.0Hz at some point, I think. That seemed to have screwed up Soundflower monitoring.

Author: S
Date: 2005-02-25 06:26:54

Cool, I’ll give that a try! Thanks for the tip. And I like the new setup diagram…that looks pretty versatile. We just recorded our first show with the setup I described above, and I think I’m happy with that for a beginner-level thing. Its main deficiency is that it doesn’t ultimately result in a single soundfile…but aligning the two files in Audacity is really easy (especially since I occasionally sing along with a song in iTunes). Your latest setup has what I like about this approach: having the microphone come into its own AudioHijack channel so you can apply various filters to the vocal track and not the background music (I like reverb!).

Anyway. Bedtime. Keep up the good work, and thanks again.

Author: Hugo
Date: 2005-02-24 21:19:57

Hmm… Just found out that monitoring to another output (not built-in audio) still works… Stay tuned.

Author: iPod Savant
Date: 2004-11-14 02:56:52

Hugo, Great site. I’ve been enjoying your podcasting articles, keep them coming! I’m hoping some day that someone comes out with an all in one solution. Turn on an application and your done!www.iPodSavant.com

Author: Hugo
Date: 2005-03-06 14:32:39

@RodSee: http://log.hugoschotman.com/hugo/2005/03/doubleender_mak.html