![]() Unfortunately, the primary 1/4″ TS guitar input appears as Channel 2 on the device, and a combination XLR/TS jack is channel 1. The USB audio interface, that I use for my guitar, has multiple channels.multiple microphones for a panel of guests) is a pretty dire shortcoming, but surely there’s a fix? At at least for the Mac side of things, there is: Audio Hijack. Skype has also become a favourite for broadcasters as a video communication tool, so why not try to make it work? Skype’s inability to use multiple inputs and channels at once (i.e. Love it or hate it, it’s undeniable that Skype is immensely popular, offers great performance (bandwidth-adaptive, low-latency), and is available on every platform you could probably name. We could have tried other VOIP solutions, but as we also wanted video, and both had Skype already installed and begging to be used. In my case, I wanted to ‘jam’ with a musician friend of mine, who lives 500km away – and we both needed to play instruments and hear each other, while having the ability to also talk. You see, Skype only let’s you connect one input as the “microphone/input”, and will only select the FIRST channel of a multi-channel device as well. While there Audio Hijack has many uses, I was specifically looking for one fix, for a rather annoying issue, that my friends and I have with Skype. You can even record all the audio heard on your Mac at once”, and this even works for instrument inputs and piping the results through Skype for some remote ‘jam’ action. Save audio from hardware devices like microphones and mixers as well. ![]() Rogue Amoeba s ‘ Audio Hijack‘ software allows you to “record any application’s audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more. ![]() While this is a Mac solution, there are similar solutions for Windows, and I’ll look to post those soon (as many of us don’t own Apple hardware). ![]() The end result? Don’t waste your time, and just buy their stuff instead. I’ve had my eye on software by Rogue Amoeba for a while, but thought I’d try to find free alternatives instead. ![]()
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