Looking for a good, studio quality microphone that just works on Linux. Also wondering what software or hardware people are using for enhancing your voice.
Get an audio interface. Then you can use any microphone.
I use a Shure SM58 for voice and a Shure SM137 for instruments with a Behringer UMC204HD.
I use a blue snowball. Dead simple and sounds awesome
I use a Røde NT-2A. What do you mean by “enhancing your voice?” You want a compressor or EQ?
I supposed both; Pulse Effects looks pretty good but was wondering if anyone is using something different!
I’d recommend against using pipewire over pulseaudio, and in turn eassyeffects rather than pulseeffects. Pipewire is a much cleaner implementation, way less buggy, has a wider support. As far as I’m aware pretty much every major distro ha smigrated to pipewire aleady.
I have a Zoom, it appears as a USB audio input device, never gave me any issues.
Also suggest the advice of getting an external audio interface. That wy, no drivers shenanigans, as it should be. For me, an Audio-Technica AT2020 XLR works great. Been using some cheap Tonor ones before too.
Blue Yeti.
Not a street or professional musician, but I wanted something that had great out of the box sound and stereo recording without brealong the budget. I got it on sale.
I don’t know the quality now that Logitech aquired them though. With tons of companies, Logitech drives the quality into hell for profit margins.
My Behringer UMC22 interface works perfectly on Linux, including with pipewire. I use it with a Rode NTG-1 shotgun mic, and it also drives my studio monitors.
My Samson Q2U also works great if you’re looking for a cheap all-in-one option.
Not sure about studio quality, but for video conferencing and doing some Twitch streams, I’ve being using a Blue Yeti Nano USB microphone for a few years (since COVID) with no issues on Linux.
Definitely not a studio quality, but I use Sudotack ST-800 along with noise-suppression-for-voice to get rid of static, key presses, etc.
The price to quality ratio is amazing (obviously the boom arm that comes with it is trash, but again, fine for the price).Removed by mod
I use a fifine microphone which mostly works ok. I used to use NoiseTorch when I had a keyboard with clickies but it was more trouble than it was worth (probably zoom linux client’s fault not NoiseTorch though).
Microphones are usually just an analog XLR connector. Good news is most audio interfaces work well in linux because they use standard drivers.
Shure SM58 going through an Audient ID4 audio interface. Pretty plug and play.
Shure SM7B with a dbx 286s preamp going out to a Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface.
HyperX Quad Cast. Since it’s USB, it just works. Sound quality is very good for the price, but you can get better ones of course.
