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Open GarageBand. In the following steps we will create a new project from the Podcast template, but the same objects are accomplished in any project with the two tracks you will dedicate to recording LOCAL and REMOTE Skype callers.

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Open your Garageband menu's Preferences option and select the Audio/MIDI page of the Preferences dialog.

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Set GarageBand's Audio Input to SoundFlower (16ch).

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Set Audio Output to whatever output device you will listen to your Skype call with usually headphones, but possibly ear buds or speakers, etc.

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From your GarageBand Track menu, Enable Multitrack Recording.

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In both of your recording tracks, click the dot, track inclusion glyph to the left of the mute glyph. A visible red dot *when either track is selected* directs recording to the track. We will use SoundFlower and LineIn to direct input from our microphone to one track, and from Skype's remote calling parties to the other track. Simultaneous-recording-enabled tracks will be indicated by red dot glyphs, which must be visible (red) when either of the two tracks is selected. It matters not afterward which of the recordable track targets you select to perform a recording both will be recorded from the respective audio sources which we configure in the following steps.

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Click "Show Track Info" from your Track menu, or click the "i" Track Info glyph on the right side of the bottom status panel to display the Track Info panel.

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Select the Real Instrument page of the Track Info panel.

From the left side track panel or track region, select the Male Voice Podcast track, or other desirable audio track to be the recording target for the local Skype party.This will become your "SKYPE LOCAL" instrument/track after we set the Input Source and Monitor values for the track.

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Set this eventual SKYPE LOCAL track to No Effects (or other) to inherit desired "instrument" effects, which desired initial effects (none in most cases) we will preserve afterward by saving the track as a SKYPE LOCAL instrument.

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In the Track Info panel again, change the Input Source for this eventual "SKYPE LOCAL" track to Mono 3 and toggle Monitor

to Off (or you will hear your voice echoed into your headset). You may also set Recording Level to the desired Recording Level for future work, as the setting will be preserved in our saved template file (eliminating preparation in further usages of your template).

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With the Effects group still selected in your Track Info panel, now click Save Instrument as "SKYPE LOCAL." You have now prepared the local recording track.

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Select the Female Voice Podcast track, or other desirable audio track to be the recording target for remote Skype parties. This will become your "SKYPE REMOTE"instrument/track after we set the Input Source and Monitor values for the track.

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Set this eventual SKYPE REMOTE track to No Effects (or other) to inherit desired "instrument" effects, which desired initial effects (none in most cases) we will preserve afterward by saving the track as a SKYPE REMOTE instrument.

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In the Track Info panel again, change the Input Source for this eventual "SKYPE REMOTE" track to Stereo 1/2 and toggle Monitor to ON. You may also set Recording Level to the desired Recording Level for future work, as the setting will be preserved in our saved template file (again eliminating preparation in further usages of your template).

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With the Effects group still selected in your Track Info panel, now click Save Instrument as "SKYPE REMOTE." You have now prepared the remote recording track.

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Open Skype.

Open your Skype audio preferences from the Preferences option of the Skype menu. Then select the Audio page of the Preferences dialog.

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Set Skype's Audio output to Soundflower (16ch).

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Now, you may optionally drag LineIn from your Applications folder to your Dock,because in future recording sessions, you will have to open LineIn to restore the functionality you need for this configuration.

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Open LineIn.

Change LineIn's Input to the same microphone you've set in your Skype Preferences.

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Change LineIn's Output to Soundflower (16ch).

Click LineIn's "Advanced" button.

In the Advanced settings window, set the left and right Input channels to 1.

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In the Advanced settings window, set the left and right Output channels to 3. Click OK.

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Click Pass Thru.

Now open your OSX System Preferences and select the Sound preferences page.

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Set the same microphone as your Input source.

Set the Output to whatever device youre listening with (optimally headphones).

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Open your Audio MIDI Setup utility (Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app).You probably will want to keep an alias on your Dock for periodic re-confirmation of configuration values which are not accessible from System Sound Preferences. Here, we will set our recording volumes to 100 percent for our microphone and for both input and output of our SoundFlower channels. Failing

to perform these steps therefore may preclude getting full desired volume in your recordings. Like a mixing desk or mixer, GarageBand's "Recording Level" value effectively sets a percentage of 100 percent volume, or of whatever lesser value may be set in your Audio MIDI Setup.

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In your Audio Devices page of your Audio MIDI Setup utility, set your microphone's volume to 100 percent (1.00). (This may be counter-intuitive unless you read the previous instruction.)

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"'Set both input and output volumes for SoundFlower (2 ch) to 100 percent (1.00), including the "M" scale.

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"'Set both input and output volumes for SoundFlower (16 ch) to 100 percent (1.00), including the "M" scale.

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Return to the Sound page of your System Preferences and verify that Input is still set to your same microphone (headset?), and that Output is set to the same output device (headset?). You're now ready to rock and roll.

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Make a backup copy of your recording template, and drag your working copy of the template to your dock, so that you can open the initial template file and immediately "Save As" to an appropriate filename and place for a recording session. (Repeat this after purging flaws.)

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Now start a Skype call and Click Record in GarageBand, before your respondents answer. Both tracks should record from the respective sources, and you should be able to monitor the remote audio as intended.

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Experiment with your Recording Level and Skype remote caller volume settings to get desired volume levels. Generally, if you set GarageBand volume for the remote callers to 100 percent, you can set the Skype remote caller volume just a bit high (in the Skype caller window) to make sure you have sufficient remote recording volume. This value may vary for different callers and their hardware configurations. Conversely, being as we have set our input volume to 100 percent in our Audio MIDI Setup utility, we can control our own local

volume in our GarageBand Recording Level for the SKYPE LOCAL track. Remember then that you can use the remote Skype volume slider and the local GarageBand slider (SKYPE LOCAL track) as you would an actual (hardware) mixer or mixing desk.

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Remote interview/conference parties will often introduce unwanted artifacts into your recorded session. Now with a separate dedicated track, you can readily erase unwanted material from non-speaking sections, and/or you may load the track(s) into free applications like Audacity, which is worth learning because Audacity provides significant and very efficient tools for applying silence to sections, filtering, or otherwise "repairing" unwanted artifacts which important capabilities are wanting in GarageBand.

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So, now you have added significant, professional recording capabilities to your very approach to recording, to interviewing, and to podcasting, which can not only save a lost project after contamination you can now apply vast fine touches to both sides of a discussion which otherwise would be mixed

as would preclude any reasonable approach to such touches at all.

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Enjoy!

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Tips
1 TEST that your configuration works by calling the Skype Call Testing

Service at echo123. 2 ALWAYS REMEMBER to open LineIn prior to future multi-track Skype recordings. 3 To use your system without the effects of SoundFlower, quit LineIn and set BOTH Skype and your System Sound Preferences as desired (directly to input and output).Simply set Skype and your System Sound Preferences back again (if you have

to change the latter) and re-start LineIn, and you're back in business for dual track Skype recording to GarageBand again. "SoundSource," a free utility from RogueAmoeba, can be used to quickly set your sound preferences from your system menu bar. If you have problems with either track not recording, verify that BOTH your red track inclusion glyphs show red when either track is selected, before you click your record button. ABOUT OTHER CALL RECORDERS: You probably will have to disable other call recorders (which don't provide this multitrack functionality) before deploying this GarageBand configuration, or your alternate recorder may raise conflicts/errors. Disable recording in that application's preferences, or shut the alternate recorder down if it raises errors or complains of conflict. PERSISTENT EFFECTS ON GarageBand PROJECTS FROM LineIn and SoundFlower INSTALLATIONS: Your SoundFlower installation will affect what audio input sources are available to future GarageBand projects. Don't despair when you discover that only SoundFlower hardware abstractions are available as input devices to GarageBand after your installation of SoundFlower. Once you make friends with SoundFlower, you have flexibility you won't have otherwise. You just have to use the right SoundFlower channel for your input devices. Just follow the pattern of this article to configure other potential devices. As already mentioned, you will always have to open LineIn to enable this multi-track input configuration. To restore your GarageBand installation to its prior behavior, your best bet is to uninstall SoundFlower with the uninstall script bundled into its disk image. LineIn has no effect unless it's started, but if you want to uninstall LineIn, just delete LineIn.app from your applications folder. Restore desired Skype and System Sound settings, and you're off and running again as before.