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willo

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How Do I Record The Audio Streaming Through My PC?
« on: May 27, 2009, 11:00:32 PM »
Righto, I don't understand these things!

I have a DAW which records an input signal fine, no problems there. But I thought, if audio was streaming through my PC (say from an internet source, or from Guitar Rig), I could just click record and it would get recorded. This doesn't seem to be the case!

Any ideas?

Cheers!  :P
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Jonny

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Re: How Do I Record The Audio Streaming Through My PC?
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2009, 11:02:35 PM »
If I understand correctly the way it goes is..

Guitar, amp, mic, DAW, computer program - i.e. Cubase or Audacity or Reaper
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Guitar, USB interface, Cubase, etc.

I think that's how it works. Basically for audio to be recorded you need a program that receives audio.
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Re: How Do I Record The Audio Streaming Through My PC?
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2009, 11:04:54 PM »
Yeah; I can record my guitars and mics fine in Reaper.

But what if I wanted to record a live audio that was streaming on the internet? It doesn't seem the same process. Unless I am doing something wrong. Similarly, I can't record 'live' from Guitar Rig either (looks like it has to be applied post-recording as a VST).
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Re: How Do I Record The Audio Streaming Through My PC?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2009, 12:25:02 AM »
I think it depends on your soundcard/interface. With a standard onboard one you can usually get a "stereo mix" recording input which just records the sound coming from the computer, whatever the source. I dont have that option with my Edirol though :(
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Re: How Do I Record The Audio Streaming Through My PC?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2009, 12:32:31 AM »
There is a free program called "Soundflower" by Cycling '74 which I use for this, but I don't know if it's available for the PC. The way it works basically is that it gives you some virtual internal channels for routing audio around your computer.
There is another program called 'Rewire' that does this, it comes with Reason I think.

EDIT: http://www.ntonyx.com/vac.htm this should do it.
If not you could always do it physically (i.e. plug the output of your soundcard into the input and record, but make sure that neither software or hardware monitoring is enabled or you'll get an awful lot of feedback!)
« Last Edit: May 28, 2009, 12:34:35 AM by indysmith »
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Ian Price

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Re: How Do I Record The Audio Streaming Through My PC?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2009, 01:02:10 PM »
I always used to use windows movie maker - a bit of a clumsy workaround but it worked! I think you click on narrate timeline or something, set the levels and then click record.
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