Comments on: Basic Audio Recording On Your Mac

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:50:23 +0000

Hi. I was wondering if I can do an audio recording of a seminar from my MacBook? And if I can, what do I need to do/have to do that? I need pretty easy directions as I’m not too tech savy. Can you help me?

By: JAyy

JAyy — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:56:34 +0000

Can THe iBook Record (rapping)audio in Good Quality with a interface?

By: Fedya

Fedya — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:59:39 +0000

And what about MacVide Screen Cap. I’m using it. Record you screen and audio from Mac.
http://www.macvide.com/Macvide_screencap/

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:06:01 +0000

Trying to record LP records from a turntable with Garageband but the sound is uneven as though someone is holding a finger against the platter. New belts on and the only way it works is through Final vinyl, not Garageband any ideas?

By: George Smit

George Smit — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:33:01 +0000

There are some other great audio interfaces and External Sound Cards that can help obtain a great quality recording on the 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

You might also want to check out CyberEars.com for releasing anything you record. We use them for Podcast Hosting and it works great. Jess

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