Today was the first Copper Robot show.
I was supposed to get a recording of the show, so we practiced on Thursday with Skype and Call Burner.
Worked fine, was clear as a bell. I even got audio out to Shoutcast.
Today...
Epic fail.
Nothing worked right on my desktop. It only routed out my voice for the parcel, and it failed to record a goddamned thing.
Callburner kept wanting to grab from my M-audio mixer instead of Skype/soundcard output, and so did the Shoutcast DSP for Winamp, which just had my voice. Then Callburner saw that one person was on a cell phone over Skype and totally lost its shit, recording nothing.
Shit.
So, instead of using Skype on the desktop and SL on the laptop, it looks like the way to go is:
- Talk using SL Voice. (If somebody griefs or leaves their mike open like a retard, I mute their stupid ass. Noise solved.)
- Stream out from soundcard output through Shoutcast DSP in Winamp
- Shoutcast to parcel.
- Record with Audacity listening to soudcard output on both desktop and laptop at same time so there's a backup.
If the streaming messes things up, that can always be 86ed - just as long as the recording works for posting later.
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I couldn't get Audacity to record SL voice, but I know some people did, so definitely give it a try.
I ended up buying a little (cheap) program called SoundTap Streaming Audio Recorder. It works okay so long as I 1) go into the Control Panel "Manage audio devices" and set "Virtual Sound Device - SoundTap Recorder" to my default, 2) Launch SoundTap, 3) Launch SL, 4) don't launch anything else!
Good luck!
- Troy McConaghy (Troy McLuhan in SL)
Posted by Troy McConaghy | January 14, 2009 8:53 PM
Posted on January 14, 2009 20:53