
You won’t believe how many times I’ve had it happen that someone has sounded great on Skype, only to send me a local recording of themselves that was made not with their fancy USB microphone, but with the lousy microphone embedded in their laptop or with the (somewhat less lousy) microphone on their earbuds.īut a failure in Call Recorder can be catastrophic. There are a lot of reasons I use Call Recorder, most specifically that it records whatever microphone is selected as an input in Skype, so if you sound okay to your fellow podcast participants, your recording will sound okay too.

I’ve enabled this feature, mostly just in case the recording software I usually use- Call Recorder-fails. One of Nicecast’s, er, nice features is that it’ll also optionally save an archive of your broadcast locally. I broadcast my podcasts live using Nicecast, a $59 utility from Rogue Amoeba.

Here’s some podcast/audio nerdery that won’t be of interest to most people, but it’s saved my bacon more than once and just this morning it appears to have saved the bacon of a fellow podcaster, so here goes. Podcast nerdery: Subtracting audio from a stereo file
