USB audio recorder?

[bobhays]

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows of a usb audio recorder. I'm not talking about a microphone. I meant something that acts as a USB audio output but instead of playing sound (or while doing that) it also records the digital audio into a file. I know there are ways to do that via analog even built into the computer like stereo mix but those convert to analog and then back to digital. I've also tried recording with WASAPI in audacity but for some reason it tends to skip once in a while which is really annoying.

 

Thanks for the help.

[toogamer]

I am fairly certain Audacity can do this while being free.

[bobhays]

I am fairly certain Audacity can do this while being free.

I just said in my post that Audacity skips, but after some testing i found out that it mainly only skips at the start. For some reason it always skips around the 1.65 second mark of the recording so if I start recording and then play the audio after 2 seconds it works just fine. It's really weird and annoying but I guess it's not too bad.

[thedigitaldoctor]

I highly recommend a Focusrite Scarlett.  We use the 2i4; it's been flawless for the years we've had it.  It allows us to record audio via USB from any analog source (though you may need an adapter depending on the output device) without causing any sort of feedback or line noise.

 

Most of the time we use ours to record from a sound board, but we've also used it to record from other computers (via their 3.5mm audio out) and directly from mics (XLR) and instruments (1/4" TRS).

 

http://us.focusrite.com/product-range/scarlett

[bobhays]

I highly recommend a Focusrite Scarlett.  We use the 2i4; it's been flawless for the years we've had it.  It allows us to record audio via USB from any analog source (though you may need an adapter depending on the output device) without causing any sort of feedback or line noise.

 

Most of the time we use ours to record from a sound board, but we've also used it to record from other computers (via their 3.5mm audio out) and directly from mics (XLR) and instruments (1/4" TRS).

 

http://us.focusrite.com/product-range/scarlett

Thank you for the suggestion, but I just figured out what the issue was.

 

I am fairly certain Audacity can do this while being free.

 

I had to set the Audacity project settings to the same settings as the sound output for the computer. I guess normally this wouldn't be an issue but since I'm the data goes straight to the recorder and bypasses the conversions it was creating an issue when it didn't line up. It works great now thanks.

[toogamer]

I just said in my post that Audacity skips, but after some testing i found out that it mainly only skips at the start. For some reason it always skips around the 1.65 second mark of the recording so if I start recording and then play the audio after 2 seconds it works just fine. It's really weird and annoying but I guess it's not too bad.

Oh, literally read that 3 times to see that, sorry.

[bobhays]

Oh, literally read that 3 times to see that, sorry.

Haha it was kind of thrown in at the end, all good I found out how to do it now.