What I am monitoring with the headphones is this. I have the FX return going to it, so I turn that up (third row of dials from the bottom) on any input I want to go back to the computer (in my set up, only the active microphone.) Conversely, the main mix (bottom row of dials) controls what goes into my Marantz recorder. Now, the PowerWave works solely to get the signal from my microphone into the computer. Lastly are the headphones plugged into the top right jack. (This laptop doesn’t have a line-in jack, so if I had that I wouldn’t need it.) They don’t seem to make them anymore, but a Griffin iMic would do the same function.
GOOGLE HANGOUT OS X PATCH
On the right is the mixer output which is going directly into my Marantz PMD 670 (the mixer is sitting on top of it.) At the top, the patch cable running from the adapter is going to the Griffin PowerWave which is then goes back to the computer via USB. Input 3/4 is the output from the computer’s headphone jack.
As you look at the mixer, input 1 is trusty studio mike. This is the other half of the configuration, and what fulfills the rest of my requirements. Now we are going to talk about my mixer setup. I have Soundflower configured as my system input and output, but I am also using Ladiocast to send my mic to only Soundflower and any further audio my computer plays (music, for example, or the audio coming out of the Hangout) to both the headphone jack and Soundflower. Main is the headphone jack and is running to my hardware mixer. You can send each of the inputs (I’m only using two) to any of three outputs (also only using two.) I have my microphone going to Aux 1 and the computer sound going to Aux 1 and Main. The thing to note here is that my microphone is on “Powerwave Composite” (more about that later) and the computer audio is on the Soundflower bus. It seems like Soundflower and this program are doing the same thing but they are not, they are complementary players in this game. This program gives you the option of taking up to three inputs and sending them to up to three outputs. Ability to play my computer audio into a Skype call or Google Hangout.I wanted to get everything together into a single comprehensive recording solution that had all of these requirements fulfilled: My Google Hangout with Butler a few weeks ago forced my hand on a lot of this and made me get my act together.
It started as laziness and never was a thing I readdressed until the last few weeks when it became a problem. I have always had two, one that the person on the phone or Skype connection was hearing and then my own local microphone that was recording me. One of my dirty secrets of my podcast career and earlier is that until recently I had never once recorded a remote interview with my own equipment using a single microphone setup.
GOOGLE HANGOUT OS X FULL
Tl dr – This post is about how I finally got a full setup where I can play arbitrary computer audio into a Google Hangout or other conference save a copy of the audio to my local media with no repeating and use a single microphone for all of the above.