To manage the audio, we need some sort of virtual audio cables to connect Skype to Ableton Live. So I started to think on possible solutions, and the best one that came to my mind was to have a separate instance of Skype running for each guest (I’ll explain how to do this later on) and use Ableton Live to record each track and to manage the audio routing.Ībleton Live is quite expensive, though, and if you don’t already have some experience with it that justifies purchasing a license, I’d advise you to check out snkl’s post that explains in detail how to achieve the same result with a much cheaper (but still great) app: Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack 3. We’d only have two separate tracks: mine and everybody else’s, This is fine if there is only one person other than me, but it’s not with more guests. Recording Skype’s group call in a conventional way wasn’t a better solution. But that was inconvenient, both for our guest and for us, as we had to wait everyone to send us his audio before mixing and editing the episode. For a while we had everyone record his own audio, since we wanted to have a separate track for each person in order to get the best possible audio quality. A friend of mine and I host a weekly podcast and, as it often happens, we speak with our guests via Skype.
