First of all, I&#39;m a complete noob and might need help in more than one way.<br><br>I am helping someone who is conducting a research. <br><br>For this, she will be making dozens of phone interviews, for which I&#39;m using google voice.<br>

<br>Shee needs to play sounds to the guests/interviewed persons (using vlc or audacious) and I need to record everything that is going on; the conversation and the playback.<br><br>Some of the recordings will also be used for a video and broadcasted in a radio show.<br>

<br>I used to have have ubuntu 10.04 with stereo mix setup so I could do this easily and used to record using audacity (that is why she came to me).<br><br>But I tried to do the same in linux mint and all I did was mess up my audio in such ways that just did not make sense anymore.<br>

<br>In rage I decided to kill mint and use ubuntu studio but I&#39;m having basically the same issues and JACK aint no piece of cake.<br><br><br>I beg you guys, please give me a hand on this as I&#39;m breaking whatever little is left of my already insufficient brain.<br>

<br>We might also need to, while recording, play sounds from youtube.<br><br>I understand JACK is way more advanced than pulse, but I don&#39;t mid the latter as I&#39;ve already used it it before with acceptable results.<br>

<br>So help is accepted in any of the two solutions pulse or jack.<br><br>There are plenty of tutorials about pulse but none has worked for me so far, and saying jack&#39;s documentation is scarce is minimizing the issue.<br>

<br><br>Thanks In Advanced!!!<br><br>