My Way to Sync Larry Munson

Let's start with my problem.  I, being a "dedicated" UGA fan, want to listen to Larry Munson for every game no matter what.  If you don't want to at least, you may need to re-evaluate your life ;).  My problem is that, on games that are televised (assuming a local broadcast isn't in use and you aren't using "Rabbit Ears" for reception) are delayed since their signal is bounced off a satellite and back before you see it.  If you add in my scenario, which is a DVR receiver, you add an additional 1-2 second delay.  This results in hearing what is happening a good 6 seconds before you see it.  This had me frustrated to the point that, I'm sad to say, I was muting Munson so he wouldn't give it away!  Before you start throwing verbal stones at me, I know it makes me a terrible fan and a bad person (I know this because my Dad told me so), but I didn't want to know what happened until I saw it.

I beat around the bush for a while debating on trying to code a device specifically for this (my personal million dollar idea), but never had the time or money to stick into the project.  I have periodically done internet searches and had no success finding someone who had already invented the wheel.  Almost all the audio delay devices I found were used by radio stations as Profanity filters.  They give about a 10 second delay and are what allows a live broadcast to "beep" out curse words.  They are also VERY expensive.  Then I found Yogen!

Note: There are definitely other ways to delay audio, which I may discuss later, but this is the way I approached it.

As of this article, I am using Yogen version 3.1.2.  You may download this from the website, www.yogen.com.  It has a try before you buy feature.  Download it, install it and run it.  When opened you will see the following window.

If you have not bought the product and are just testing it first, click "Try First".  Once satisfied, BUY it!

This will take you to the main audio recorder page, as shown below.

Click the menu in the top left corner and then highlight "Recorder Mode" and then click "Time Shift" to reveal the following image.

As you can see, I have the "Line In" selection chosen by the "Recording Source" and my sound card selected for the "Recording Device" and "Playback Device".  I think 6.3 seconds was the delay I had on the last game, but you change this based on the delay you see.  You don't have to stop recording or anything, you just use the drop down and change the time, pretty sweet.

That's really all there is to running the software correctly.  You need to have a decent amount of space on your hard drive as well.  Something like 1GB should be way more than enough.  Of course, that figure depends on what you are trying to do as well.  Also, from the main "Audio Recorder" screen, I went to the settings tab and selected MP3 @ 192 kbps, mono for my recording.  I picked the MP3 setting for the smaller file than the WAV setting.... the WMA setting will be smaller as well.  I picked 192 kbps just because that's the quality I usually have my MP3s anyway.  I set it to mono, since stereo takes up more space since you are copying 2 channels.  I'll probably change that setting to stereo once I am certain of the size files I'm creating.

I have a FM tuner sitting to the right of my laptop and a TV on the left.

How I get the radio signal into the PC is as follows.  From the FM tuner output RCA jacks, I connect a cable similar to the one listed at the beginning of the article to the "Line In" of my laptop.  (Note: the "Mic In" will work just as well if you don't have a "Line In" jack.  You will just need to select the "Microphone In" as the "Recording Source" in setup.)

How I get the sound out to the TV is as follows.  I take the second cable and plug it into the "Output" plug of my laptop and run it to the RCA "Audio Input" of my TV audio device.  I personally have my TV audio run through a sound system.  Therefore, I send my RCA jacks into this sound system under my "AUX" input.  This allows me to play either the delayed Larry Munson commentary OR the actual TV commentary!  This is of great importance to me since not all commercials match up in time length and sometimes I just would like to hear what the TV commentators have to say about a close play.

Once these are attached, just click the record button on the Yogen console, and "6.3" seconds later or whatever your time differential is, you will have sound.  Depending on your skill level, I would recommend doing this at least a few hours or even days ahead of the game so as not to stress out during tailgating!

• Some FM Tuner cards that you buy have audio delay capabilities built in and would render the need for Yogen and the FM Tuner unneeded.
• If you use your PC as a TV, then you wouldn't need to send the sound out to a 3rd device.
• You could use a device like a Dell DJ Ditty (which I tested) that has a FM tuner on it as your input device (although the cable you would need would be different).  The battery life is the issue.  If you run out of battery, your recording is messed up then and it will probably happen at the best part of the game.

If you know of other ways to do this, send them to me and I'll add them to the list.