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Snoogans775	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 9:18 PM Skype is a very good one, it is compatible with MAC, PC, Linux, and some other OS, and is compatible between these two systems, so if the person you're talking to uses a Mac and you use PC, no problem! you also need, recording, any will do, Cool Edit, Cubase, ACID, Creative Recorder, Audacity, etc. THE MOST IMPORTANT PART is setting up your system to record the voice chat, and you do this as such: --open your volume controls(the little speaker in the lower right for PC users) --select >options in the upper left and then >properties >Options >Properties ---in the checkboxes, make sure that both "Microphone" and "Wave" are checked, now, both the audio coming from your interviewin peer and what you speak into your microphone will be sent to the "Wave Out", which comes next. (Some of these screens will vary with high-tech sound cards and USB interfaces you may be using to record with) --the last part, where it says, "adjust volume for", select "recording", then press "OK" and in the recording volume control, select "Wave Out Mix" phew done. and once you make sure all the levels are correct, open up you recording software, and start recording, if you play music through your media player, it will be recording, if you speak through your microphone, it will record it, jsut make sure that they have similar levels and you're fine. and most importantly, if you start recording and begin your voice chat, all the madness will be locked away forever in the annals(:butthead:huhuh) of Dmusic history!" id="152941">Well, there have been two interviews that I have heard so far, and they are working wonderfully, and they surely will as long as we keep on making original and insightful conversations, or we can just talk about ice cream meaphors for twenty minutes, but that's cool too! I've found a very simple method of having a streaming real time interview, and I'd like to describe it in hopes that maybe some you out there would like to explore some more of the brains of all these nutcases! (these instructions are for PC, I know that setting the system to record both the audio output and the microphone at the same time will vary on other OS's) and now for some technical jabber. THE GOAL:record an internet voice chat to do this! you will need: A versatile program for conducting the voice chat, Skype is a very good one, it is compatible with MAC, PC, Linux, and some other OS, and is compatible between these two systems, so if the person you're talking to uses a Mac and you use PC, no problem! you also need, recording, any will do, Cool Edit, Cubase, ACID, Creative Recorder, Audacity, etc. THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTProperties ---in the checkboxes, make sure that both "Microphone" and "Wave" are checked, now, both the audio coming from your interviewin peer and what you speak into your microphone will be sent to the "Wave Out", which comes next. (Some of these screens will vary with high-tech sound cards and USB interfaces you may be using to record with) --the last part, where it says, "adjust volume for", select "recording", then press "OK" and in the recording volume control, select "Wave Out Mix" phew done. and once you make sure all the levels are correct, open up you recording software, and start recording, if you play music through your media player, it will be recording, if you speak through your microphone, it will record it, jsut make sure that they have similar levels and you're fine. and most importantly, if you start recording and begin your voice chat, all the madness will be locked away forever in the annalsbutthead:huhuh) of Dmusic history!
Snoogans775	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 9:19 PM damn it all it stole my butthead!
tsand19151	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 10:23 PM great post...sense I have a Mac I'll tackle this end. Mac users should be able to use iChat which comes with the OS. I video and audio chat with my brother in Philly all the time. To record, I would use Audio Hijack http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ ...it will record anything. Snoogs, this is a awesome idea....we have the technology!!!!
Snoogans775	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 1:47 AM I have more plans, which I will discuss later, once I research some more, but I'll leave a taste streaming DMusic radio broadcasts you're damn right we have the technology!
onewhodreams	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 10:44 AM Snoogans. New Interview with myself and Dizeazed coming soon!
imemine	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 10:56 AM Cool man! Have you tested this program for two way conversation? This would be the way to do it I think----if it works!
Snoogans775	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 6:21 PM I'm doing an interview with Alexander Lindqvist on tuseday, but I've been doing tests on it, and they've all been spectacular, if anyone else wants to help me out I'd like to record a short conversation with them on skype if they have some free time b4 the interview, cuz Alexander is busy.
Distilled1	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 6:57 PM Very I have been trying to figure out how to record both the wave and mic now I can and I feel I have skype so I will give it a try
Converstation	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 11:50 PM THE INTERVIEW between the two of us is over there, the individual levels came out fine(though the overall level was very low) and it turned out great form my recording end, best sound so far in our experimenting, but for some reason Alexander had my feed of his voice echoing at him at full volume, I don't know if that can be fixed with this system, because I'm starting to see how it happened. it would be a shame to let this setup go, since it's so damned simple." id="153468">THE INTERVIEW between the two of us is over there, the individual levels came out fine(though the overall level was very low) and it turned out great form my recording end, best sound so far in our experimenting, but for some reason Alexander had my feed of his voice echoing at him at full volume, I don't know if that can be fixed with this system, because I'm starting to see how it happened. it would be a shame to let this setup go, since it's so damned simple.
Converstation	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 11:51 PM oops, I messed up the url, just click on my avatar link
GeneHilbert	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 12:10 AM OK, this makes the third interview I'm aware of...... each is in different location. I think they should all be in one centralized spot or this is going to turn into a cluster fuck. They are going to get lost, people will not be able to find them or even know they exist. So someone has to take the proverbial bull by the horns and set up an organized page just for these things.
Snoogans775	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 1:14 AM that's what that account is, I'm talking to Fradonaghy and OWD now to get them to post them there, but it's a non-subscribed account, so it only has 75 MB's, I'll start using it as my primary account to build some points and get 250 MB's for it, but unitl then, I'll see.
GeneHilbert	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 1:28 AM Kewl.....
onewhodreams	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 1:35 AM http://dmartistinterviews.dmusic.net/ Dizzy and I recorded ours over yahoo chat and recorded each of our voices seperately and then mixed. It shall be up tomorrow but the quality turned out really well. This one's only 34 minutes...
Converstation	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 1:39 AM ours is 37 just wait until these turn into three-way conversations, we'll have friggin sit-in's and OWD, we should proabably link our sites together, unless you wanna subscribe that account.
mattbanx	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 2:48 AM Snoogans, I'm sure you probably thought of this. Why can't there be a specific forum for interviews and have a site devoted just for that? It would be the first of it's kind. I have been to many sites and have not seen a forum devoted to interviews. Would the administrators be keen to that?
koiulpoi	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 7:46 PM I'm no admin, but I'd be "keen" to that myself.
mattbanx	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 10:30 PM There is an interview under DJ radio. I replied along with another member and it was apparently deleted off. Maybe their strategizing.
mattbanx	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 10:33 PM It's under DMusic Radio, not DJ radio. Sorry about that. My fricken sensitive eyes!

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