Noisy direct recording on Mac/Safari
Usually I record my Audioboos either on the iPhone app or with Garage Band. Since the usage of Garage Band is a bit cumbersome I thought I record it directly with the flash interface.
Well it did record and the audio quality was quite good - except that it "crackles" quite alot!
I am using my Blue Mic Snowball - which records just fine everywhere else - but with Audioboo I get these "crackling" sounds :-( Is this a general bug? Anyone else experience this?
I used an iMac with said mic and Safari 4 on Snow Leopard
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2 Posted by rosenkrieger on 24 Mar, 2010 03:57 PM
Am I really the only one with this problem?
I also tried it with Firefox - same thing. Somehow my direct recordings are always "scratchy, crackling & noisy"
Support Staff 3 Posted by jdelStrother on 24 Mar, 2010 07:55 PM
Heya, sorry noone got back to you. We have heard a few people having problems with external mics - I'll try and get hold of one of Blue's microphones & figure out what the problem is.
-Jonathan
4 Posted by thomas on 24 Mar, 2010 08:02 PM
Hi, is there any chance you could try another recording as I've just published a number of changes in how the java applet records audio which I'm hoping will fix the various problems we've been having with it.
Let me know if it's any better,
Thomas
5 Posted by rosenkrieger on 24 Mar, 2010 08:15 PM
Hi Thomas,
just did a testrecording:
http://audioboo.fm/boos/109270-audioboo-test-recording-crackling-pr...
You can hear the crackling :-/
6 Posted by thomas on 24 Mar, 2010 08:20 PM
Ick, thanks. Yeah still there, thats no good. Will look into it...
Thomas.
7 Posted by rosenkrieger on 24 Mar, 2010 08:20 PM
Appreciate it!
Boo Support = A+
8 Posted by thomas on 24 Mar, 2010 08:45 PM
Hi, is there any chance you could try it again?
I've managed to get my machine to start crackling by dropping a buffer size (which is the obvious place to look when it comes to crackling) and it seems that we've set the size of the record buffer at a value which might be too low for your machine / microphone combination to not overflow.
I've bumped up the buffer size which means the visualiser is going to look pants now (since the low-buffer mean it was very responsive) but I'd rather have crackle free sound!!
Could you give it one more go? It also occurs to me that your browser might be caching the old version of the java applet - could you quit / re-open Safari before you give it a go?
Cheers,
Thomas
9 Posted by rosenkrieger on 24 Mar, 2010 08:53 PM
Just did another recording, but it seems that its still crackling.
I deleted the cache and also quit Safari.
http://audioboo.fm/boos/109287-testrecording-audioboo-problem-bitte...
10 Posted by thomas on 24 Mar, 2010 08:57 PM
Arghh.. Just so you know, if you record and "preview recording" the crackling should be apparent then so you don't have to submit the clip.
Is there a chance you're on iChat with 20 mins or so to look at this properly? ( fire an IM to thomashaggettmac if you are.)
Sorry about this!!
11 Posted by rosenkrieger on 24 Mar, 2010 09:01 PM
I did know about the preview, but I thought you wanted to hear it ;-)
I will be in iChat in a few and add you there. I just gotta make a few calls before that.
Thank you for the support!
12 Posted by rosenkrieger on 28 Mar, 2010 10:04 PM
Thanks to the support here I "solved" the problem - my iMac has trouble with this noisy recording prob. All my other macs worked just fine.
So its NOT a problem with audioboo but my iMac something I have installed that makes these noises.
13 Posted by Hank on 16 Jun, 2010 12:32 PM
What about me,for record audio I use Macvide Audio Recorder.It’s prog can records many different formats of sound.Try.
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