Yes! We made it! Checked all the details. What you'll hear is a quick, fun talk with Cris Costa and Illya. I used Audacity to record our conversation even having the automatic back up of Simplecast. With Audacity open, it's much easier to edit when it's over. I had to edit something I repeated twice in the beginning of the recording. Used more tools available this time in Audacity. Zoom really helps to get the right spot to cut. I used my USB mic and headphones and was working on a PC.

The problem I faced? At around 3 minutes, you'll start to listen to an echo. I guess that's because the girls were also testing all sorts of things with recording, mic, audacity settings. Any clues? That's my guess. I'll do it again to check for the echos. The one from the Audio Repeater is good enough! I don't need any other.

 
My Checklist:

Volume Control Properties

Mixer Device: SoundMax Digital Audio (my sound card)

Adjusted volume for Recording 

Clicked on Wave out mix

In Skype

Tools - Options

Audio Settings

Microphone: AK5370

Speakers:  SoundMax Digital Audio (my sound card)

Uncheck Let Skype Adjust my Audio Settings

In Audacity

Audio Preferences

Recording Device:  SoundMax Digital Audio (my sound card)

Channels: 1 (mono)

File Formats

MP3 Export Setup

Bit Rate: 64 

Wave Out Mix in the Mic options (popup on the front page) (By the Way, I learned that this option was only possible for me if I dealt with the Volume properties first)

Click on Start (it doesn't start streaming)

Config

General Options

Capture Sound from Device: SoundMax Digital Audio (my sound card)

Click on Encoders

Add New Encoder (+) 

Config

Converter

Output Format Details 

Codec: MP3

Bit Rate: 64kb/s

Sample Rate: 44,1 KHz

Channels: Stereo

Stream Archive

Click on Save stream to File

Server Details provided by Jeff

Start Encoder

Now Streaming 

Checked the Webcastacademy 

Name of the show on

Listened to the Stream 

OK

AudioCables

Audio repeater

Wave in AK5370

Wave out Soundmax

Total Buffer 100

Start 

Start Recording in Audacity 

Skype Conference 

Create Conference

Choose Contacts (Cris Costa and Illya)

Add 

Magic! We got it. We were planning to stream Cris Costa's talk on her Master's Dissertation, but I didn't make it. The fact is that I could succesfully stream having these two wonderful partners as witnesses and having great fun with them. We realized that Webcasting is great because nobody will see our voices blushing! Thanks, girls, for taking your time to be there with me. Here's the screenshot of the moment. We DO love the big waves in Audacity even if every time I have to amplify, but to a lower volume. What loud, excited Webcasters-to-Be we are!

Can't wait for more!

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