I’ve been using Audio Hijack Pro for many months now, with some success. Or at least, I thought so. Yet still, I was having technical difficulties to the extent that I felt I should go ahead and file a trademark for the term. Up until recently, I was pretty convinced that the technical difficulties were due to my laziness at not doing consistent broadcast tests before shows and writing up consistent broadcast policies for myself. But I’ve changed my mind now.

About three weeks ago, I had to bag my July 24th broadcast. For some reason, I just couldn’t broadcast my voice out to the world. I was able to get music out through iTunes, but not my voice. My normal set up is that I have Audio Hijack Pro hijack my voice and any voices coming through Skype (i.e. interviews) and then transfer that audio through the use of Soundflower to Quicktime Broadcaster, then out to the world through my server in Texas. Music is the same way…AHP hijacks the audio from iTunes, out to Quicktime Broadcaster via Soundflower and out to your ears.

July 24th frustrated me because I had just several days ago made sure that everything was updated, and AHP and Skype were the only ones that needed updating. And after all that updating, I got nothing for audio.

A few days later, Rogue Amoeba, which develops AHP, released another update, and suddenly my audio worked again. Which certainly meant that some kind of interaction between AHP and Skype was the problem, and Rogue Amoeba had released a solution.

Yesterday, I did an interview with the guys who won the most recent iDevGames 21-Days contest (Carlosvision). Everything seemed to go well…I performed an audio test before hand to make sure that everything sounded fine. The one thing I didn’t do was actually listen to the recorded audio that I tested after I tested it…after all, I figured that since I had asked AHP to let me monitor the audio I was going to hear what was being recorded. Big mistake.

I just listened to it today, and my voice (and just my voice) has this dumb echo effect. And I can’t remove it. I’ve got a solution…since the interview is so short (about 8 minutes or less) I can just listen to the original interview and record my voice asking the questions again in the manner I asked them, then replace my echoey voice with the new recording.

But I shouldn’t have to do that. For some reason, the way I have had AHP set up in the past no longer works, and I’m not sure how to change things so that they will again. I’m not sure that I want to try. I’m thinking I want to try out GarageBand instead and see how that goes. Anyone have opinions about how GarageBand works for them for recording podcasts? Will it work for live broadcasts?