Comments on: Basic Audio Recording On Your Mac

By: Paul Reyes

Paul Reyes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:48:54 +0000

hello…l want to turn off my bulit in speakers on my mac leopard…how do you do it…..pls help…thank you

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:04:55 +0000

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By: shaf

shaf — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:22:46 +0000

Hi Steve
There is a free utility called soundflower from http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

Soundflower allows you to route audio from any application to any other application. So you could record from your media player to GarageBand for example.
All the best.
–
Jay Shaffer

By: steve

steve — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:09:33 +0000

I can get the audio to record from the microphone, and thru the audio input jack, but I want to be able to record clips from my imac that play on the media player. with my old PC i could do this, but with my new imac, there is no option. Its either the microphone or input audio (and that sux).

Is there a way around this? or do I have to record with my PC and then transfer it to my imac?

Confused, please help.

By: shaf

shaf — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:10:24 +0000

Hey Ken

I’m presuming that you mean that you’re coming out from the CD Player into the Audio in jack, not the headphone out on your mac. First chaeck that you’re getting signal in by opening System Preferences – Sound and click on trhe input tab. You should see the sound meter moving as outlined in the article above. Once you are sure that you have audio coming into your Mac. In Audacity’s Preferences Make sue that recording is set to Core Audio: Built in Audio. You should be good to go.
good liuck!

By: kenaniah

kenaniah — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:28:00 +0000

Ok I have downloaded audacity on my mac Im trying to record data from a CD onto a mono track but It seems like
Im only getting the only external signal Im getting is me speaking it’s as though there some other mic on that is picking me up and I cant seem to find out how to record the external song from the cd onto audacity. Im coming out of the left and right channels of the cd player into the headphone jack of my mac what am I doing wrong