Recording Stops rather randomly or with no audio... HELP!!!

I've been trying to record audio through an Alesis USB 8 Mixer. I can record audio through the mixer however it seems if there is a pause in audio in between a guitar part or any drop in volume, it stops recording. This makes it incredibly hard to record a song if have to keep going back and hitting record over and over again every time the part of the song playing has a rest. Can anyone help?

I don't think I ever got it to work. I believe I used Audio Hijack Pro (rogueamoeba.com) to digitize the cassette (using the Griffin iMic) - then i used Soundbooth to do some editing.
If you need to remove hiss from an audio tape, or pops and clicks from an LP, you might want to check out a product called SoundSaver (www.bias-inc.com)
SoundBooth worked pretty well for removing noise, but I had to do it manually - scrolling through the waveform finding aberrations to "erase".
SoundSaver does this job automatically, and does it well. In addition, it has an "enhance' feature that really improves the audio quality of both tapes and LP's.
It also makes child's play of the task of identifying and naming the tracks. So I use that product exclusively now. SoundBooth is probably not the best tool for working with tapes and LP's.
Hope this helps.
Del Simcox
White Bear Lake, MN

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