more on the recorder

[Devin Asay]

Rand,

My experience was similar with regard to choosing a mic input. I just  
decided to always use  the default input and set the input using the  
system prefs rather than Rev.

I put together a "sandbox" stack that allows me to play with all the  
recording settings. If you want to look at it enter into your message  
box:

go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/stacksRecordingToolbox.rev"

Warning: this was written on my OS X box and uses some shell calls,  
so if you want to try it on windows, you'll have to change or comment  
those out.

Some of it's a little rough, but it might help you figure some things  
out.

Devin

On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:23 PM, rand valentine wrote:

>  Well, I've had some interesting experiences recording sound into  
> Revolution
> (Studio 2.7.2). Here's what I've found:
>
> 1. If I set the inputsource to "dflt" on my g4 powerbook, and try  
> to record,
> I get audio files that sounds like pigs on acid. I'm sure my  
> students would
> find this entertaining, but not exactly what I want to do. The only  
> working
> choice on the Mac (Tiger) seems to be "imic" Nothing else works,  
> either
> producing silence or the above stated porcophony. And I have to  
> choose imic
> regardless of whether I'm using the internal or a plug-in mike. But  
> this
> only works if I go to the System Preferences Sound settings, and  
> _there_
> change the input source to either internal or external. That  
> setting seems
> to override anything in RunRev.
>
> 2. When I take my file over to my Dell 5100 running latest Windows,  
> the only
> setting that works is "dflt" I don't think this dell has a built-in  
> mike,
> and have been recording with an external. That works fine, as long as
> inputsource is "dflt" Using "imic" or "emic" doesn't seem to work.  
> I haven't
> looked at the Windows system pref to see if there might be any  
> variables
> there to play with. Too many variables in the world.
>
>  Please let me know if you've written up some notes on these sorts of
> things, or even could point me to a well-coded stack. Thanks so much.
>
> rand valentine
>
>
>
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University