Record FaceTime calls with Audio Hijack

Record interviews, voicemails and other calls with Audio Hijack

IT WILL TAKE

30 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN

How to record audio on your Mac

YOU’LL NEED

OS X 10.9 or later, Audio Hijack

Thanks to the clever CoreAudio system that Mac OS X uses to manage the handling and routing of sound inside your Mac, applications like the excellent Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba are able to intercept

and record almost any kind of sound. Think of it as introducing a recording device between the source of the sound – an application – and the destination, which is your Mac’s speakers or your headphones.

Because it’s done digitally there is no loss of quality. Plus, you can encode audio as it is recorded, so even long recordings won’t use up much space. The most obvious use is to record interviews via FaceTime on your Mac, either from your phone or as video or FaceTime audio calls. You can use it with Skype too – just remember that you need to inform the person you are recording before you start! Hollin Jones

Session view

The main Session view is where you set up, manage and record the various apps and streams that Audio Hijack can intercept.

Advanced controls

Use the Advanced and Effects sections to take greater control over your recordings, for example cleaning up or boosting the signal.

Source selection

The App Picker lets you select almost any app on your Mac that is capable of making or receiving sound – that’s a lot of apps.

The call

You can see the audio representation from an active FaceTime call. You can also easily record the sound from video calls, including those made over Skype.

Schedule

It’s also possible to schedule your recordings, say for example to record a web stream that takes place when you’re not actually at your computer.