Multi Audio Device Recorder (Software)

[mizifih]

Hi guys! I'll state my problem first. Here we go...

 

I have a Capture device, the Live Gamer Portable from Avermedia, it's cool, have the quality that I expect so yeah, it's enough, it that can capture my HDMI output, audio and video, at 1080p@30 and the bitrate is more then sufficient, and it also capture one microphone device in a separate mp3 file if I use the Avermedia software. And the best part is that it doesn't really use much resource other then writing the files on my PC hard drive. BUT, it's not all sunshine.

 

It's capturing my mates voices from teamspeak at the same audio track used for the game, so game sound and my mates voices are mixed, into a stereo track, so I can't really separate to set a good volume, sometimes the game gets too loud or my mate gets too loud and I must leave it as it is. My voice is separated in a single mp3 file, so my voice is not a problem. But I really want to capture all the audio into different tracks, Avermedia Rec Central doesn't allow me to do so.

 

I have tried capturing Teamspeak audio using its record feature, it also mixes my voice and my friends voices into a single track, again, I can't set a proper volume when all the chatter and we getting crazy gets louder then the game. Or my voice as a lower volume then their voices all together.

 

So, basically, TL;DR: I need a software, like a really simple one, that can capture the audio devices (My headphones, my microphone and Optical/HDMI output), each one in its own audio track. I can keep using Avermedia to capture the game alone and mix all the audio later.

 

I don't need fancy stuff, the simpler the better, actually. Like adding tracks, selecting with device goes at that track and hit capture, so I can end up with a multi track audio file or, if not possible, an mp3 for each device.

 

I know dxtory does that, it does very well actually, but I really don't want to waste system resource on capturing when I have a device specifically just for that (even though, I know, it's not perfect).

 

Thank you guys

[ShearMe]

You could try downloading virtual audio cable and in conjunction with Audacity record audio tracks separately, but it's definitely not a "simple" solution in terms of work you'll have to do in post processing.

[mizifih]

You could try downloading virtual audio cable and in conjunction with Audacity record audio tracks separately, but it's definitely not a "simple" solution in terms of work you'll have to do in post processing.

I have Virtual Audio Cable installed, I'm using it to send the audio from the Optical output to the HDMI output, pretty handy. But I don't see a way to separate all the devices into separated tracks since Virtual Audio Cables is used to mix devices into a single output (as far as I know, but I could be completely wrong about it), so that output would end up having all the outputs mixed into a single track. If there is an option to separate them into different tracks, with Virtual Audio Cables please, let me know. Also, audacity, it looked like a very simple software to me, it's powerful and actually not that simple, but it also just mix devices into a single (dual channel) stereo track.

[ShearMe]

I have Virtual Audio Cable installed, I'm using it to send the audio from the Optical output to the HDMI output, pretty handy. But I don't see a way to separate all the devices into separated tracks since Virtual Audio Cables is used to mix devices into a single output (as far as I know, but I could be completely wrong about it), so that output would end up having all the outputs mixed into a single track. If there is an option to separate them into different tracks, with Virtual Audio Cables please, let me know. Also, audacity, it looked like a very simple software to me, it's powerful and actually not that simple, but it also just mix devices into a single (dual channel) stereo track.

 

There is a VB-Audio Virtual Cable driver with two cables (check the comments), and you can install it alongside the single cable driver to have three cables. Simply send teamspeak audio to a cable for audacity, checking the "listen to this device" box in sound properties. 

[mizifih]

The problem with "listen the device" is that it makes two devices get recorded into a single track.

Have you ever seen what dxtory does? It create a video with lots of tracks, today I tested and I had a video with three audio tracks, one was my mic, the second one was my friends voices, and the third one was the game itself. If I use "listen to" solutions I'll end up with a sine audio track with all the sounds mixed.

Take a look at the image below, I have a video track and three audio tracks. That's what dxtory does, it captures several audio devices and save each one into its own separate audio track. I want an audio capture software that would do that for the sound alone, even if the software save one file for each device. I could fire three audacity instances, but that's too much manual syncing.

[ShearMe]

Yes, I know what DXtory does, and no, you can't actually use multiple audacity instances, as it will only capture from one device at a time. I guess I misunderstood how audio got to the capture device, but I don't know of any specific audio software for recording like this. I'm 100% sure there's something you can buy though. @mr moose? @t0wer?

[mr moose]

You'll either have to do it outside of your computer I.E get a cheap USB sound dongle, direct the TS audio out to it and then mix it via a small mixer to your mics input so you can control the level of your voice and of your mate before it is recorded to the mps track.  Or direct your mates voice to the left channel and your voice to the right channel and then just use pan controls to mix the voice over levels in the mp3.

[ShearMe]

 then just use pan controls to mix the voice over levels

 

Thats kind of genius, so long as he puts it in mono after making the adjustments.

[mr moose]

Thats kind of genius, so long as he puts it in mono after making the adjustments.

 

Why thank you, and for my next trick I will make a turtle beach headset sound better using nothing other than 3 cans of leak sealer and a bag of premix concrete.

[SSL]

Why thank you, and for my next trick I will make a turtle beach headset sound better using nothing other than 3 cans of leak sealer and a bag of premix concrete.

 

They already did that over on head-fi, except with an HD800.

[mr moose]

They already did that over on head-fi, except with an HD800.

 

 

Why the fuck would anyone want to coat HD800's in leak sealer and bury them in concrete?

[SSL]

Why the fuck wouldn't anyone want to coat HD800's in leak sealer and bury them in concrete?

[mr moose]

 

Why the fuck wouldn't anyone want to coat HD800's in leak sealer and bury them in concrete?

 

Of course, why didn't I see it before...

[mizifih]

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[mizifih]

You'll either have to do it outside of your computer I.E get a cheap USB sound dongle, direct the TS audio out to it and then mix it via a small mixer to your mics input so you can control the level of your voice and of your mate before it is recorded to the mps track.  Or direct your mates voice to the left channel and your voice to the right channel and then just use pan controls to mix the voice over levels in the mp3.

 

LOL, things got out of hand with you two 

 

Well, mixing audio is actually not a solution, I mean, I can already capture all my audio into one track doing pretty much nothing else then hitting REC 

 

What I really want is multiple audio tracks and one video track. I don't mind using a second software to capture the audio separately. Kinda like what you see on the picture I posted on my last post, first track is video and second to forth are audio.

 

My solution, so far, was use dxtory to capture the audio with a crappy video, since I must set a video source, like a crappy 240p-ish video using openencodevfw codec (with AMD APP/VCE H264 encoder), so I don't get any performance hit, and all the audio channels I need are also captured by DXtory, the 1080p@30 video is being captured by AverMedia Live Gamer Portable. I end up with two videos, I know, but that was the best solution I got so far.

 

Now I'm trying to see if I can get better performance with DXtory+openencodevfw, so I can go down to a single software.

 

Thank ya'll for your input.