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I’m recording a fullscreen game with fraps. I like to listen to music while I play, but when I record video, I would like fraps to only pick up the audio from my game and not my media player. Is there anyway I can arrange this?

Seems the simple thing to do would be to turn off the music for the time that you record.

Otherwise, you can plug in a headset, and use windows volume mixer / media player to play the music through the headset, and have the game set as usual, so fraps picks it up.

Ok, so anyone who is a nazi zombie fan has heard the audio recording on Der Riese about element 115 in America. Was that originally planned to be a new map, or just a pointless recording?

Im pretty sure they were planning on making a 4th map pack that wouldve been set in area 51 but instead they just decided the start working on Black Ops. There are rumors ive heard that their gunna put nazi zombies in Black Ops but im not sure. Regardless, you havent seen the last of Treyarch and zombies

I have an audio recording in IMGP.WAV and I dragged it into iTunes and it sounds bad. It sounds good in quicktime, so what should i convert it to in order for it to play and how should I do so? ITS OF ME AND BOBBY MCFERRIN!!

I think you need a audio converter.
I have a imoviesoft audio converter, it can convert between all popular audio formats, including MP3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, MP2, AAC, AC3,such as converting MP3 to WAV, AAC to AC3, WMA to MP3, etc.
I think you can have a try, good luck!

im on windows 7 and i have an internally built microphone. i disabled it a while ago not knowing that it would permanently stop me from recording again. now when i want to record it says "an audio recording device cannot be found" and when i open the sound settings, it used to show my microphone strength. Now in the recording tab, it says: "select a recording device below to modify its settings : No audio devices are installed"
some one help please, thanks

1. Right click on the speaker icon and select Recording Devices.
2. You should get a context menu that has two options
==> Show Disabled Devices
==> Show Disconnected Devices
3. Click on Show Disabled Devices
4. Select the Recording Device(mic) and Enable it.
5. Click Apply and then Okay.

What is a good, functioning laptop for audio recording, editing, etc. that is easy on the wallet?

ummmm how easy do you want to be on the wallet?
maybe a macbook pro or alienware.

I record music, mostly using Ableton Live, Logic, and Garageband… I need a new recording interface, but I have a limited budget. Ideally, I want something with great audio quality, great analog to digital converters… but under $300!! Firewire would be nice, although USB is ok. Any suggestions?? Thanks!!
I don’t need many channels actually. Only one or two inputs would be fine. Not recording a band or anything, just my own compositions… Thanks!

You don’t say how may channels of simultaneous audio you are trying to capture. Line level? Guitar? Mic? with phantom? USB is used mostly for 2-4 channel audio and Firewire reserved for 8+ channels, especially higher def formats (192KHz, etc). Lexicon makes some nice ones, Tascam has 1 or 2, M-Audio has a few and can use the "M-Powered" version of Pro-Tools as well as working with Logic or Garage Band or Ableton.

I use an Exilim EXS770 to record lessons for my website and to be totally honest, the microphone isn’t that great. I have an Audio Technica AT4040 microphone and a Mackie Onyx Satellite DAW that I use for recording music.

Is there any way I can use any of my tools together or pick up something additional to record audio from the professional alongside the video of the camera?

Since you are already recording the audio externally, when the video is in your computer video editor, mute that audio then import the externally recorded audio to the video editor and sync. Basically, you just replace the video’s audio with the externallly captured audio. I do that all the time…

Tip: While editing, leave the video’s audio up enough to hear – when the echo stops, you are sync’d. THEN mute the video’s audio.

Hi,
What is the difference between 12 bit and 16 bit audio recording mode on my Sony MiniDV Camera? (of course there is a difference in quality, but what? Is it noticable? and what other things does it affect? (the total capacity of the tape…will it enable me to record more time if it was set to 12 bit instead of 16 bit? what other differences are there??

Thanx in advance…

You should not be able to tell the difference between the two. However, 16-bit will provide a better version. Why? The key is a device called an ADC or Analog to Digital Converter. The ADC takes the analog waveform from the microphone input and coverts it to a series of bits.

An analogy would be significant numbers in math. If 12-bit recording has 4096 significant digits, then 16-bit recording has 65536 signifiant digits. However, you may only need 4000 significant digits, so using 12-bit recording would work just fine.

I bought these cd’s at wal-mart and when i got them home I read on the cd "for audio recording" can i still use them to download or save pictures on them?

Yes you can. These are the only kind of discs I use to save my pictures on. They are less expensive and work just as well as far as I can see.

I’m doing some work on voice analysis, and I was told I could use Flash on a webpage to record audio from a client’s attached microphone, and stream it to a server for analysis(while it’s still recording).

1) Is that possible
2) If so, how do I do it?

It’s possible but it requires a complex tangle of expensive $5k to Macromedia Streaming Server , plus licensing for getting the codec which lets you convert from the flv audio format to mp3.

Your best best is to find a a web service that offers this for you and subscribe to them..

Java applets offer a klunky way to do this..

A more polished option is to write a standalone recorder and web uploader, not as integrated but a lot easier to do.