Recording Skype on Intel Mac?

[kevdo]

I was able to record Skype pretty well using WireTap Pro (and the caller side using Audio Hijack).

Neither seems to work on an Intel-based iMac, due to Rosetta emulation of Skype (even when using the Universal beta of Audio Hijack).

While I'd prefer to record using iChat or Gizmo, Skype seems to be the only one that my callers seem to be using. Any ideas, other than waiting for Intl-native versions of Skype and WireTap Pro? Thanks gang.

[Craig]

Try recording the line out from the iMac onto an external recorder and then bring it back into the mix in post. I actually don't record on the Mac at all when doing Skype interviews...I bring the line out of my (G5) iMac into my mixer in one channel, have my mic in another channel, pan one all the way left and the other all the way right and record onto an iRiver. When I'm done with the interview I bring the resulting file back into the Mac, make my edits to the file and then split left and right into two separate channels for gain balancing/EQ/noise filtering/whatever. This is much more flexible than recording both voices into one channel and also protects you in case there's a glitch in your recording software during the interview.

Craig

[kevdo]

Excellent advice. For shows where interviews are key this is clearly the best way to do this. Interviews are ocassional for my show and this would be the only example of where I'd need to use a mixer/external recorder.

Trying to keep thing simple by keeping everything local to the Mac (made most realistic by Samson's excellent USB mic, C01U). Guess I'll have to wait or go back to my old PowerBook for Skype recordings.

[womengrow]

Podcast411 had a sound comparison of recording an interview into an iRiver vs. recording into Garageband. The difference in sound quality was remarkable.
If doing interviews is the bread and butter of your show, I'd second Craig's advice of recording into an external device and bringing it back in for editing and sound cleaning.

[dasli]

for Mac I can offer SkypeCap Mac.. nice... i think

[jacob581]

Skyecap would be best to record the skype conversion.

[cybercrime101]

A fellow podcaster friend of mine recommended Audio Hijack Pro. It's $32.00 from http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro. You can download the Demo and use it unfettered for up to 10 minutes w/o paying. After the 10 minutes, a white noise goes over your recording (so keep it to 9 1/2 minutes to be safe).

Hope that helped

[Canis Majoris]

Originally Posted by dasli

for Mac I can offer SkypeCap Mac.. nice... i think

+1
I also use this tool.

[StateDOG]

SkypeCap might work well, but it only works with Skype.

Try Call Recorder, WireTapStudio, or AudioHijack Pro.

Those work well with Skype, but other programs/applications as well.

[Canis Majoris]

If you are going to record not only Skype video conversations, you can simply use some screen recording software (ScreenCap, Macvide ScreenCap, etc).