Pamela and Total Recorder are both money-based packages. I’m sure there are podcasting packages that let you do all of those things, but I’m also sure they’re more expensive than free. This isn’t a good thing when you want to play music and do other things during the call. It made its reputation of always working by viciously reassigning the computer sound channels and sometimes never letting them go. And there has to be a post production because you can’t control enough things inside a PC to do a full show. I learnt that you can just do this directly by using the ‘WASAPI Loopback’ setting on. After flailing around trying to find apps or extensions to record audio on Skype. I hope this can help any fellow podcasters looking to use Skype for interviews and record the audio. This is the preferred way because then you can apply corrections and mixing in post production. Audacity as an easy way to record audio for Skype podcast interviews.
You either get both voices jammed into one presentation in which case you can’t control the far side volume, or you’re on the left and the caller is on the right. Zoom is really the ideal way to record a podcast remotely. You can choose to export mp4 audio, mp4 video, and multiple track recording for each speaker. The audio quality will not be amazing, but it is good enough for a podcast. The only way to record both sides of a Skype call – other than a full on-multi-channel sound mixer – is Pamela or Total Recorder. Zoom records the call and exports an mp4 file that you can later import to Audacity. You sync them up and mix them gracefully into a high quality production. So: Each person in the podcast records their own voice and ships you the sound files.
It’s recording the Skype side that kills you.
Welcome to the place everybody gets stuck. Everybody can record their own voice because that’s a service of their computer.