Hi there,
My friend and I record a double-ender podcast in Piezo, where we both record a voice call made through LINE and then use the VoIP channel as a reference to line up both of our voice tracks. However, I have found that the quality of my own voice track has been quite poor compared to when we recorded through Skype in the past, and my cohost doesn't seem to be having these issues on his end.
There are two issues I encounter in our recordings:
- Four or five times an episode (1h30m on average), my voice will briefly have a chorus or phasing effect, marking the start of a long section where my own voice sounds muffled or lower bit rate. This keeps happening until the next chrous/phasing glitch where it stops until the next one.
- Throughout the entire track, it sounds like the right channel is bleeding into the left channel, much like it would if the audio from my own headphones were leaking into the recording.
After replacing various cables and messing with my hardware, it became apparent that this all seemed to be happening in software. I recorded my own voice in QuickTime Player during this week's recording so I could compare it to the Piezo recording, and the QuickTime audio is just as flawless as Piezo used to be before when we were recording through Skype. This leads me to believe that Piezo is causing the issue here.
Since my cohost doesn't seem to be experiencing these issues, the two distinguishing things I can think of is that I am running Sierra (10.12.6) and he is running the latest version of High Sierra. I also have Loopback installed, but all of my configured virtual audio devices are disabled for the length of our recording.
Any ideas?