Talk:Tutorial - Recording audio playing on the computer

Peter 2Aug11 wrote initial version of this page. -Ed 2Aug11 checked/fixed/added links, should all be good now, did a grammar, style & consistency check Gale 04Aug11: further proofreading and consistency corrections. I removed "Monitoring lets you do this without actually having to record and then delete a test track" in step 3 given we then actually instruct users to make a test recording. Is the test recording overkill? We already tell them not to exceed -6 dB. Even if we want a section on actually making a test recording, should we have have something on detecting and "fixing" clipping in the actual recording? Remember, it could be an internet radio once-off with no "listen again" option.
 * Peter 4Aug11: Thought long and hard about the Test Recording section today - and on balance I would prefer to leave it in. It is good practice and to be recommended.  I screwed up an internet capture today; I turned off Software Playthrough but forgot to change the input device.  It all looked ok but I found I had recorded Radio-2 from my FMtuner/Edirol and not the Internet stream (one-off, not repeatable) that was playing on the computer.  A test recording would have shown me the error.
 * Gale 06Aug11: I accept the wisdom of ideally making a test recording however this still really doesn't flow all that well for me. It's nice to tell user about monitoring, but what's the point if we say to make a test recording anyway? Really a wasted step except it saves some recording time. Perhaps it may be better to go straight to the test recording step then mention monitoring as a time saver e.g. if you already know you recorded the browser but are now recording from another site. Also I still think in the real world people will get clipped streaming recording because they can't get to the web just in time so don't make the tests. We should say something about what you can do to "fix" clipping.
 * Peter 9Oct11: I have added some advice about the use of the Clip Fix effect in the final section on this page.