I am incredibly grateful to Rogue Amoeba for serving as the first-ever Lex On Tech weekly advertiser to promote Audio Hijack.
I’ve been a fan of Rogue Amoeba’s apps for as long as I can remember — and of Rogue Amoeba’s CEO Paul Kafasis for as long as I’ve known him.
When I launched Lex On Tech just over two months ago, I had no plan or business model; I simply knew that I wanted to start publishing a tech blog. When I published my one month anniversary post, I wrote, “I’ll probably consider real ads one day.” Paul iMessaged me shortly thereafter: “We have been the very first sponsor for all your favorite Mac sites… So, tell me when.”
It’s genuinely an honor that anyone wants to sponsor this site, and a true pleasure that Rogue Amoeba is first. This week, they’re promoting Audio Hijack, an app I literally use all the time.
Here are real world examples:
Whenever I record any podcast, I capture my microphone using Audio Hijack. In addition to recording audio to disk perfectly — I’ve never once lost a recording with Audio Hijack! — the app supports using audio plugins, too. My standard setup involves recording one “clean” track, and one that runs a few paid plugins to remove the hum of my air conditioner or noisy keyboard clacking.
If I need to capture a segment of audio from literally any other app, Audio Hijack does that, too. Choose the app, start the sound, capture the audio perfectly.
I’m picky. I have a “Decrappify Safari Audio” session in Audio Hijack that I use if I’m watching a video that has particularly poor audio. Life is too short to waste time listening to crappy audio. Audio Hijack lets me fix it in real time. It’s like magic.
I asked Paul to read a draft of this thank-you post (it’s my first one!), and he suggested I check out SoundSource for that last use case. I use and love SoundSource, too, and I hadn’t realized it could do this! So I’m excited to check it out for that purpose.
Anyway, if you listen to a lot of Apple tech podcasts, you’re undoubtedly hearing from many happy Audio Hijack users. As Rogue Amoeba wrote in their ad this week:
Use Audio Hijack to grab audio from anywhere: a single app like your web browser, a Zoom or FaceTime call, a mic or audio interface, or everything on your Mac at once. Build what you want on a visual canvas, by dragging in sources, ading effects, and wiring up recorders and monitors. It’s easy enough for a quick capture and powerful enough to run a whole podcast.
There’s much more: Schedule recordings to start on their own. Record to several files at once. Broadcast live. You can even transcribe speech into text right on your Mac, with nothing uploaded and no account required.
Audio Hijack is free to try, and my readers can save 20% on Audio Hijack with discount code HIJACKLEX in Rogue Amoeba’s online store through November 8th. I encourage you to check it out even if you don’t have serious audio needs: It’s just a lovely, straightforward, powerful app.
