Audio Hijack 3.0 is a little bit confusing as Audio Hijack Pro was the older version and the confusion is because the newer v3.0 puts the older to bed in every possible way. It's a vast improvement.
To avoid confusion, I'll refer back to Pro as the older version and it's a much older version as it had something of a Windows feel to it. For a Mac user, that is not a warm, squishy feeling. The software was highly-effective but pretty wasn't there.
Audio Hijack 3.0 is the picture of what Mac recording ought to be. This is not a competitor for Logic or Pro Tools but rather it's a utility to capture audio in whatever format you like from just about anywhere. You can save it as a cheesy MP3 or a raw, uncompressed AIFF and get every gorgeous musical molecule, the flexibility is immense.
Note: yes, you can record both sides of a Skype conversation. If you do this with your girlfriend without telling her then you're a skank who doesn't deserve to have one.
The older version did all those types of functions already ... but ... Audio Hijack 3.0 does it with supreme elegance. Now it uses a graphical interface to present the audio flow and you can put VU meters in it or any effects you like. Then you can route the output to one or more destinations (e.g. a file and also speakers).
To modify any setting, click on the object representing it (e.g. Input, EQ, etc) and change it as necessary. Click away and the update window disappears again revealing the graphic objects of the audio flow. Highly smooth.
Any fool can make things complicated but it takes a wizard to make complicated things easy and the wizards at Rogue Amoeba have done a fine job on this one.
Nicecast is another of their products and it is for audio streaming to the Internet. I have used it hundreds and hundreds of times and it has always operated flawlessly and with the same wizard simplicity as Audio Hijack 3.0. Finally, Fission is another of their products and it's used for physical editing of an audio file. I don't typically do any audio slicing but this would be an excellent product for it. What I got from Fission tonight was the precise waveform of the audio captured in a test of Audio Hijack 3.0 and that yielded information that will help me make a better recording for my next video.
Congratulations to Rogue Amoeba on a job very well done.
Audio Hijack 3.0 licenses new for $49 US or upgrade for $25. If you've used Audio Hijack Pro, you WANT this upgrade.
To avoid confusion, I'll refer back to Pro as the older version and it's a much older version as it had something of a Windows feel to it. For a Mac user, that is not a warm, squishy feeling. The software was highly-effective but pretty wasn't there.
Audio Hijack 3.0 is the picture of what Mac recording ought to be. This is not a competitor for Logic or Pro Tools but rather it's a utility to capture audio in whatever format you like from just about anywhere. You can save it as a cheesy MP3 or a raw, uncompressed AIFF and get every gorgeous musical molecule, the flexibility is immense.
Note: yes, you can record both sides of a Skype conversation. If you do this with your girlfriend without telling her then you're a skank who doesn't deserve to have one.
The older version did all those types of functions already ... but ... Audio Hijack 3.0 does it with supreme elegance. Now it uses a graphical interface to present the audio flow and you can put VU meters in it or any effects you like. Then you can route the output to one or more destinations (e.g. a file and also speakers).
To modify any setting, click on the object representing it (e.g. Input, EQ, etc) and change it as necessary. Click away and the update window disappears again revealing the graphic objects of the audio flow. Highly smooth.
Any fool can make things complicated but it takes a wizard to make complicated things easy and the wizards at Rogue Amoeba have done a fine job on this one.
Nicecast is another of their products and it is for audio streaming to the Internet. I have used it hundreds and hundreds of times and it has always operated flawlessly and with the same wizard simplicity as Audio Hijack 3.0. Finally, Fission is another of their products and it's used for physical editing of an audio file. I don't typically do any audio slicing but this would be an excellent product for it. What I got from Fission tonight was the precise waveform of the audio captured in a test of Audio Hijack 3.0 and that yielded information that will help me make a better recording for my next video.
Congratulations to Rogue Amoeba on a job very well done.
Audio Hijack 3.0 licenses new for $49 US or upgrade for $25. If you've used Audio Hijack Pro, you WANT this upgrade.
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