#MAKE A VOICE RECORDING ON MACBOOK HOW TO#
#MAKE A VOICE RECORDING ON MACBOOK SOFTWARE#
#MAKE A VOICE RECORDING ON MACBOOK MAC#

Now you've got a track there that is listening to your microphone you could see the volume meter there listening to my mic. You can click here and go to Settings and change the settings input device. You can see the instrument connected is in this case a microphone. You can choose a microphone right there from the start. You can select an empty project and it will prompt you for an initial track. Of course you can also use GarageBand to record. To Save this out you would just go to File, Save or Command S and then you can Save it out as an audio file to use in another app. So there's somethings you can do with it. I can Add to the end and I can also Trim. Now I can go to Edit and I can Split the clip at a certain point. I can play it back and move back and forth inside here. At any point I can hit Stop and then I get basically a document here that has the voice recording in it. Then you can hit the Record button to start recording. You can click this little button here and change the microphone which, of course, you can't do that in Voice Memos. This brings up this Audio Recording interface. I can do to File and New Audio Recording. I'm going to do it with the Spotlight menu. So you can record something on your iPhone, say, and then find it here in Voice Memos on your Mac.Īnother great app for recording audio that's been around for a long time is QuickTime Player. A big advantage to using Voice Memos is that it syncs using iCloud with your iPhone and iPad and other devices. I can also drag and drop these outside of Voice Memos so that it's a File and now I can use it in another app. When I'm done I hit Done and you can see the recording appears up here on the left. Or I can Delete to delete the section that I have selected there. So now I can move the beginning and end over like that and hit Trim to trim it. If I go to the end that changes to Resume. Notice that when I go earlier it says Replace instead of Resume because it'll replace everything from that point on. I can move this playhead back and forth like that as well. When I'm paused I can also hit Done or I can hit Play to playback what's there. At any time I can Pause and then I can Resume to continue recording.

You can see the wave form here so you confirm that it's recording and see how much time has elasped. Now in Voice Memos you can hit Record and it will start recording from the microphone you've chosen. So I think this is a pretty good setting for me. Notice how that when I talk you can see it's never reaching the peak over here but it certainly is passing halfway at the loudest point. Here I find this is the best setting for me for my microphone in the setup in my office. It's also very important to set your input volume here.

#MAKE A VOICE RECORDING ON MACBOOK MAC#

You may just have the internal Mac microphone. There you can go to Sound, select Input here and you can choose the microphone if you have more than one.

Now it will determine which microphone is used, not by any setting here in Voice Memos but by going to to System Preferences. A list of current recordings on the left and a big red record button It comes with your Mac if you have Mojave or Catalina and you have a simple interface here. The first method is to simply use Voice Memos which is an app specifically built for recording audio from your microphone.

#MAKE A VOICE RECORDING ON MACBOOK SOFTWARE#

Most Macs come with a microphone included or you can get a USB microphone and then there's already a bunch of software on your Mac that you can use to record your voice. So I'm often asked how you can record your voice on your Mac. There you can read more about it, join us, and get exclusive content. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 500 supporters. Today let's look at seven different ways that you can record your voice on your Mac.

#MAKE A VOICE RECORDING ON MACBOOK HOW TO#

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