Comments on: Build Your Own (Cheap) Moderated Testing Setup

By: Thomas Kunov

Thomas Kunov — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:55:25 +0000

First of all, thank you for a great blog. I’ve been reading it with great interest.

I do however have a question on the more technical level:
I’ve been using Camtasia and GoToMeeting with some success. There is just on single problem, namely that I only get the sound of my own microphone when I record in Camtatsia. I can’t seem to get Camtasia to record the sound from the sound card as well. The areas in Camtasia where I can select between sound sources are permanently grayed out. Consequentially, I get a recording without the user’s comments… not very useful. I’ve tried using Skype, but with the same result.

Any thought or suggestions?

By: bolt | peters

bolt | peters — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:58:52 +0000

Hi Bruce– you’re absolutely right; there is one component of the setup that completely slipped my mind while I was writing this article: a phone tap. We use the JK Audio QuickTap (http://www.jkaudio.com/quicktap.htm), which has a minijack out that can plug into the microphone port on the computer, and runs about $60 brand new. To help you visualize the whole setup, I’ve edited the post to show you how all of the different parts fit together, so you can get your remote testing setup up and running. (I’ve also added the bit about the QuickTap, so thanks for the catch!)

Let us know if you have any more questions!

By: Bruce Brolsma

Bruce Brolsma — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:01:46 +0000

Hi. Great article. Before I go out and buy the Hello Direct Pro Amplifier, I wanted to ask a question. I thoroughly reviewed the published specs and PDF brochure at their site, and there is absolutely no indication that there is, for example, an output jack provided for routing the signal to a computer. So exactly how do you attach the amplifier to your computer?

Thanks.

Bruce