#audiorecording — Public Fediverse posts

@elementary Hi! I recently installed your OS on an old A1224 model iMac for the purposes of audio recording. I'm typing from it right now, and it's working well so far, but I have a couple questions. The two big ones are as follows:

• The external drives I use for saving project files and holding media don't mount automatically when the computer boots, and aren't even detected unless I unplug them and plug them back in, after which I still have to open them in Files to mount them properly. I have a feeling this is due to the external USB hub I'm using, which is large enough to require it's own power source. If detection of the SSDs is based around them powering on alongside the computer, that'd be an issue since the drives are constantly powered from the wall. I'll plug them in directly and restart the computer to test this if that works, but if I quit out now I'll lose what I've typed. lol

• I use a Behringer U-phoria UMC1820 interface for recording, and that causes issues that aren't unique to Elementary, but are harder to troubleshoot on it. Due to the way it informs Linux (PulseAudio or PipeWire, whichever part of the chain it directly talks to) of it's inputs and outputs, it causes oddly specific issues. I think it's best if I detail how this issue behaved on Linux Mint, the previous distro I used for recording, and then how Elementary differs slightly.
  Mint succeeds in detecting the UMC1820 and lets it be selected in it's sound settings. However, due to the interface itself labeling all of it's ins and outs as "auxiliary" something, the computer has no clear "left" and "right" channels to use as defaults. Mint assumes that the first two "aux" outs are the default left and right, which is correct, and aside from a couple bugs I couldn't get around in specific software, it still works as normal.
  Elementary detects the interface but doesn't list it as an option in it's sound settings, I can only imagine because there are technically no default outputs to… list. I was only able to make it output through the device by installing PulseAudio Volume Control and selecting it there, resulting in NO options being selected in the dedicated sound settings, and the options in the upper right corner of the screen incorrectly stating I was outputting through the built-in speakers.
  I was worried it would switch back once I rebooted, and thankfully this isn't the case, but I thought you should be made aware of this issue so that maybe, if nothing else, the weird interface could at least be shown under sound settings proper. I've given up on trying to "label" the correct outputs as "left" and "right" instead of aux 0 or 1 or whatever, that's likely a PulseAudio issue and a lost cause.

Daunting as that second one is to explain, I promise it's not a huge deal and I AM able to record and play back sound regardless. It just would have been really confused and concerned if I hadn't had prior experience with Mint, and knew that I could likely fix the issue by using other Pulse tools.

Thank you for making software that's ethical and anti-LLM. I thought the whole FOSS scene would be more against AI slop, but it's hard to find an OS that stands against that tech-bro garbage, let alone software to use on it. I appreciate it so very much.

@elementary Hi! I recently installed your OS on an old A1224 model iMac for the purposes of audio recording. I'm typing from it right now, and it's working well so far, but I have a couple questions. The two big ones are as follows:

• The external drives I use for saving project files and holding media don't mount automatically when the computer boots, and aren't even detected unless I unplug them and plug them back in, after which I still have to open them in Files to mount them properly. I have a feeling this is due to the external USB hub I'm using, which is large enough to require it's own power source. If detection of the SSDs is based around them powering on alongside the computer, that'd be an issue since the drives are constantly powered from the wall. I'll plug them in directly and restart the computer to test this if that works, but if I quit out now I'll lose what I've typed. lol

• I use a Behringer U-phoria UMC1820 interface for recording, and that causes issues that aren't unique to Elementary, but are harder to troubleshoot on it. Due to the way it informs Linux (PulseAudio or PipeWire, whichever part of the chain it directly talks to) of it's inputs and outputs, it causes oddly specific issues. I think it's best if I detail how this issue behaved on Linux Mint, the previous distro I used for recording, and then how Elementary differs slightly.
  Mint succeeds in detecting the UMC1820 and lets it be selected in it's sound settings. However, due to the interface itself labeling all of it's ins and outs as "auxiliary" something, the computer has no clear "left" and "right" channels to use as defaults. Mint assumes that the first two "aux" outs are the default left and right, which is correct, and aside from a couple bugs I couldn't get around in specific software, it still works as normal.
  Elementary detects the interface but doesn't list it as an option in it's sound settings, I can only imagine because there are technically no default outputs to… list. I was only able to make it output through the device by installing PulseAudio Volume Control and selecting it there, resulting in NO options being selected in the dedicated sound settings, and the options in the upper right corner of the screen incorrectly stating I was outputting through the built-in speakers.
  I was worried it would switch back once I rebooted, and thankfully this isn't the case, but I thought you should be made aware of this issue so that maybe, if nothing else, the weird interface could at least be shown under sound settings proper. I've given up on trying to "label" the correct outputs as "left" and "right" instead of aux 0 or 1 or whatever, that's likely a PulseAudio issue and a lost cause.

Daunting as that second one is to explain, I promise it's not a huge deal and I AM able to record and play back sound regardless. It just would have been really confused and concerned if I hadn't had prior experience with Mint, and knew that I could likely fix the issue by using other Pulse tools.

Thank you for making software that's ethical and anti-LLM. I thought the whole FOSS scene would be more against AI slop, but it's hard to find an OS that stands against that tech-bro garbage, let alone software to use on it. I appreciate it so very much.

Going through some of my music related stuff and found my textbook copy of The Recording Studio Handbook. I can't bring myself to part with it. It was such a fun course. I never found a job in a recording studio but I can still wind a cable like a pro and recall random things like the Haas Effect, speaker placement, and this very important law of correct microphone usage. 😆

#AudioRecording #Nostalgia

Going through some of my music related stuff and found my textbook copy of The Recording Studio Handbook. I can't bring myself to part with it. It was such a fun course. I never found a job in a recording studio but I can still wind a cable like a pro and recall random things like the Haas Effect, speaker placement, and this very important law of correct microphone usage. 😆

#AudioRecording #Nostalgia

Oh no Jim Lill has done a video about microphone pre-amps. So it might be time for me to finally sell my "Golden Age Pre 73" Neve 1073 clone mic preamp before the prices of them tank! I bought it thinking I needed it but could not for the life of me hear a difference and never bothered with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vIeA7yy6Q #audiorecording #recording #microphone

Oh no Jim Lill has done a video about microphone pre-amps. So it might be time for me to finally sell my "Golden Age Pre 73" Neve 1073 clone mic preamp before the prices of them tank! I bought it thinking I needed it but could not for the life of me hear a difference and never bothered with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vIeA7yy6Q #audiorecording #recording #microphone

#RainParade was kind enough to allow this #audiorecording of last Saturday's #LiveConcert in #SanFrancisco to be posted on #archive_dot_org
https://archive.org/details/RainParade2026-05-23

Let's just share our most candid, intimate conversations with a pasta sauce company!
What could go wrong?
Nobody would EVER think of putting that device in a bedroom, office, or some other place than the dining room table. Right?

#privacy #audiorecording

https://futurism.com/future-society/prego-pivots-pasta-sauce-microphone

Let's just share our most candid, intimate conversations with a pasta sauce company!
What could go wrong?
Nobody would EVER think of putting that device in a bedroom, office, or some other place than the dining room table. Right?

#privacy #audiorecording

https://futurism.com/future-society/prego-pivots-pasta-sauce-microphone

Does anyone know if you can pair the Zoom H6 audio recorder with a second device and use them in master/slave mode?

#audiorecording #zoom #zoomh6 #handyrecorder

Does anyone know if you can pair the Zoom H6 audio recorder with a second device and use them in master/slave mode?

#audiorecording #zoom #zoomh6 #handyrecorder

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates #KikagakuMoyo in #Oregon #LiveConcert #AudioRecording #Pickathon #stereo #AudienceRecording #JamBand #psychedelicMusic

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates #KikagakuMoyo in #Oregon #LiveConcert #AudioRecording #Pickathon #stereo #AudienceRecording #JamBand #psychedelicMusic

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates
#KikagakuMoyo in #SanFrancisco #california #LiveConcert #AudioRecording #stereo #AudienceRecording #JamBand #psychedelicMusic #TheIndependent #ConcertVenue

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates
#KikagakuMoyo in #SanFrancisco #california #LiveConcert #AudioRecording #stereo #AudienceRecording #JamBand #psychedelicMusic #TheIndependent #ConcertVenue

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates #KikagakuMoyo in #SanFrancisco #california #LiveConcert #AudioRecording #CastroTheatre #stereo #AudienceRecording #JamBand #psychedelicMusic

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates #KikagakuMoyo in #SanFrancisco #california #LiveConcert #AudioRecording #CastroTheatre #stereo #AudienceRecording #JamBand #psychedelicMusic

@livetapes #ModularSynth #LiveConcert #ElectronicMusic approx 20 minutes of #AudioRecording

@livetapes #ModularSynth #LiveConcert #ElectronicMusic approx 20 minutes of #AudioRecording

My background is in #audiorecording and #electronics . I have always wanted to design my own #eurorack modules but never actually did it to completion. I feel that now is the time. I think I'll start with a basic distortion/fuzz/overdrive and see where this goes. Only problem is I have so many interests I am so easily pulled in other directions. This time I plan on staying focused. ... Hopefully

My background is in #audiorecording and #electronics . I have always wanted to design my own #eurorack modules but never actually did it to completion. I feel that now is the time. I think I'll start with a basic distortion/fuzz/overdrive and see where this goes. Only problem is I have so many interests I am so easily pulled in other directions. This time I plan on staying focused. ... Hopefully

The RodeCaster Video Core Connects up to Four Cameras into a Production https://petapixel.com/2026/03/09/the-rodecaster-video-core-connects-up-to-four-cameras-into-a-production/ #rodecastervideocore #rodecasterproii #audiorecording #rodecastersync #rodecasterduo #rodecaster #Equipment #streaming #audio #News #rode

The RodeCaster Video Core Connects up to Four Cameras into a Production https://petapixel.com/2026/03/09/the-rodecaster-video-core-connects-up-to-four-cameras-into-a-production/ #rodecastervideocore #rodecasterproii #audiorecording #rodecastersync #rodecasterduo #rodecaster #Equipment #streaming #audio #News #rode

@bassbernd
Hallo und Willkommen

#reaper
https://www.reaper.fm/

#Musikproduktion #DAW #Audio #AudioRecording #AudioEditor #Linux

It is possible to use the Tascam Portacapture X8 as an ADC, input converter, and mixing board for an iPhone, but there’s a few things you’ll need to know.

Thankfully, any USB-C or USB-C-to-Lightning cable will do

You just connect one end of the USB-C cable to the Portacapture X8 (to its built-in USB port) and the other to your iPhone (USB-C or Lightning work, as suits your particular model of […]

Spent Monday of this week doing my first solo recording gig. It was for a ~20 piece big band in small auditorium, and I was really happy with how everything came out.

The really nice part was not having to worry about bleed on the microphones cause the takes weren't going to get comped together.

I mean, I wasn't going to worry about it anyway cause it was a ~20 piece big band playing on stage in a small auditorium, and you may as well worry about what it's going to sound like if a meteor hits nearby slightly out of time, but it was nice to have an extra reason not to worry.

#AudioRecording #BigBand

Edit 2: Es wird wohl audacity werden, danke für die Tips. 🙂

Ich hätte Lust, mich aktiv bei LibriVox einzubringen (Bücher, die Gemeingut/Public Domain geworden sind, auf Datei lesen).

Problem: Ich bräuchte einen digitalen Audio-Recorder, und zwar auf dem Linux-PC. Über Smartphone möchte ich das nicht machen.

Meine Ansprüche: Mit GUI, einfach zu bedienen, keine Spielereien oder Effekte, die das Menü aufblasen und die Bedienung verkomplizieren. Empfehlungen?

Edit: Überflüssiges/falsches Wort gelöscht.

#AudioRecorder #AudioRecording #Linux

Edit 2: Es wird wohl audacity werden, danke für die Tips. 🙂

Ich hätte Lust, mich aktiv bei LibriVox einzubringen (Bücher, die Gemeingut/Public Domain geworden sind, auf Datei lesen).

Problem: Ich bräuchte einen digitalen Audio-Recorder, und zwar auf dem Linux-PC. Über Smartphone möchte ich das nicht machen.

Meine Ansprüche: Mit GUI, einfach zu bedienen, keine Spielereien oder Effekte, die das Menü aufblasen und die Bedienung verkomplizieren. Empfehlungen?

Edit: Überflüssiges/falsches Wort gelöscht.

#AudioRecorder #AudioRecording #Linux

Rest in peace to Joe Ely
Here's a #LiveConcert #AudioRecording of his which I posted back in August, of an uncirculated show recorded by #MichaelBrianSharpe right off the #soundboard onto this #cassette https://archive.org/details/JoeEly1995-03-08-Puffy

@Rockbythetree

You ever drink alone on a Friday night and record yourself singing & playing guitar poorly in your bathroom?

I spent my first 65 years avoiding getting drunk, only once sub-coming at a Russian wedding reception which had vodka and champagne on the table while people danced but didn't serve food until Midnight.

I then tasted way too many beers at Tioga-Sequoia brewery (very tasty) and found I could not keep from feeling I would fall down. Anyway, the spouse drove us back from Fresno and I got the bright idea, purely for author-research purposes, to make a voice recording of my thoughts about the experience of being drunk. Sadly, the spouse didn't have their way with me.I've only listened to parts of the recording, because, well, too embarrassing—so I know why nobody's way was had.

#drunk #beer #audiorecording
#scribesAndMakers

@Rockbythetree

You ever drink alone on a Friday night and record yourself singing & playing guitar poorly in your bathroom?

I spent my first 65 years avoiding getting drunk, only once sub-coming at a Russian wedding reception which had vodka and champagne on the table while people danced but didn't serve food until Midnight.

I then tasted way too many beers at Tioga-Sequoia brewery (very tasty) and found I could not keep from feeling I would fall down. Anyway, the spouse drove us back from Fresno and I got the bright idea, purely for author-research purposes, to make a voice recording of my thoughts about the experience of being drunk. Sadly, the spouse didn't have their way with me.I've only listened to parts of the recording, because, well, too embarrassing—so I know why nobody's way was had.

#drunk #beer #audiorecording
#scribesAndMakers

Our #RemembranceDay events usually feature a choir singing the Flanders Fields poem. Sometimes 'Danny Boy' as well.

Here's an audio recording I captured live a good 20yrs ago now. It's at the same location shared above, on a cool September evening. Even with a bit of wind noise, it gives me the chills to listen to it still.

https://freesound.org/s/54081/

#audio #AudioRecording #DannyBoy

Our #RemembranceDay events usually feature a choir singing the Flanders Fields poem. Sometimes 'Danny Boy' as well.

Here's an audio recording I captured live a good 20yrs ago now. It's at the same location shared above, on a cool September evening. Even with a bit of wind noise, it gives me the chills to listen to it still.

https://freesound.org/s/54081/

#audio #AudioRecording #DannyBoy

From Michael Brown(@jingajik.bsky.social)Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library(NZ):

"Flying Nun on Multitrack

First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them?"

https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/flying-nun-on-multitrack

#music #DunedinSound #DigitalPreservation #FlyingNun #SoundRecording #AudioRecording #NewZealand #Aotearoa

From Michael Brown(@jingajik.bsky.social)Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library(NZ):

"Flying Nun on Multitrack

First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them?"

https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/flying-nun-on-multitrack

#music #DunedinSound #DigitalPreservation #FlyingNun #SoundRecording #AudioRecording #NewZealand #Aotearoa

Dilophosaurus works on a mix.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #AudioRecording #AbletonLive #Mixing #Dinosaurs

Maurice Brings Immersive Audio Recording to the Masses https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/maurice-brings-immersive-audio-recording-to-the-masses/ #microphonearray #audiorecording #immersiveaudio #microphone #MiscHacks #xlr