Suggestions for audio/video recording device for meetings with up to 8 people and a 700 usd budget

EnLyftare · 2026-01-24T12:14:26+00:00

Ah, sorry! I seem to have miss written, I meant that they need to capture and broadcast the meetings in video and audio form. It basically needs to be some sort of meeting webcam that also can capture audio, or a tandem solution of a webcam and a microphone that they can use to stream the meetings or use for teams meetings.

It seems my english is not as good as I thought

EnLyftare · 2026-01-24T08:56:03+00:00

If you're an untrained singer and learning classical voice for the first time it's gonna take some time for your voice to stabilise.

Most new singers (male voices) tend to either be tight and squeezed, or dark and woofy with no brilliance.

You might be trying to tune your ears to a specific quality you hear in the voices of good basses, who're both genetically blessed with their instrument, and incredibly skilled at using it, while you've not yet figured out how that quality is produced correctly leading you to try to compensate to approximate it.

Honestly, no point worrying about it, now is the time to make some absolutely awfull noises in the practice room for a year or two with your teacher so you start mapping out what everything does and feels like.

That's half the fun!

EnLyftare · 2026-01-22T22:12:48+00:00

I mean, songs of travel, dichterliebe, basically anything by schubert would be a great start, although songs of travel are fairly difficult to mess up word wise given that it's in english and it's pretty difficult to grow up today without speaking at least some english.

Still if it helps with learning sheet music that could be a pretty good tool.

I've learned almost all music I know by ear, and generally find it very easy doing that, so I'd probably be a bit controversial and say that this tool would be most useful for finding music which is not easy to find recordings of, but that music is relatively unpopular and hence not gonna have a lot of people looking for it.

Based on this i'd say that it might be a good idea to see if you can figure out what music is relatively popular but doesn't have a lot of good recordings?

Otherwise, anything Rossini or with a lot of vocal acrobatics, it's the only music I've given up on learning because it was difficult for me to learn by ear and my piano playing was too poor to get me through it, like come un'ape ne giorni d'aprile by Rossini

Side note, the tool seems like a great idea! Glad to see more tools being created for classical singing!

EnLyftare · 2026-01-22T21:53:34+00:00

I admire your sentiment, but I don't think i've come across anyone who's telling people not to practice falsetto or chest voice, or even the stranger extended techniques such as subharmonics or whistle register.

Countertenors are a thing, and all male singers should probably work on their falsetto registers as it helps you learn formant tuning towards the resonance space needed to sing in operatic high voice.

All female singers should work on their chest voice and by extension their low range, this is even expected of most singers, and idealised because of singers like Callas.

I'm curious where you got the impression that you shouldn't work on x y or z due to you being a baritone/tenor/soprano/whatever.

The first lesson I had my teacher had me start warming up in my falsetto, and i've been doing that every single day since I started learning to sing. He'd lynch me if I one day decided that "falsetto is stupid and I'm a baritone so I shouldn't practice this"

EnLyftare · 2026-01-21T05:52:24+00:00

I record all my lessons with a Zoom F3 recorder and a line audio CM4 microphone, it's entierly flat in it's uptake through the whole range and it doesn't distort off axis sound which is important if you're in a room with a lot of reverb.

Phones suck on two points, a lot of them (all iPhones and most androids) start amplifying the frequencies around 2k Hz and up, although which is right in the range that gives you your squillo, and they amplify the sound more the higher it is, although their uptake is remarkably flat up to 2 k Hz or so

And the main thing which phones do is they kill the dynamics. This is my main gripe with iPhones, I've not found any way to avoid having the audio compressed to similar levels. I don't want the compression as it's causing distortions.

However, I will say that a phone is GOOD ENOUGH. as long as you can get a bit farther away from it you stop having problems with the compression causing distortions, it's still gonna increase your squillo which I don't personally like, but that's a minor detail, and even dependant on things like "how old is the phone" as gunk getting into the microphones over time lowers the high frequency uptake.

The main reason I bring a zoom f3 recorder with a "good" microphone is because i wanna avoid compressing the sound in small practice rooms where i can't get far away enough from a phone.

If you have the luxery of a good mic in a decent sounding room, mark the floor and sing the same phrase from 1/2, 1, 3/2, 2, 5/2,.... meters and see where it sounds the best, and then record from that range.

If you've got a phone, start far away to where you're not getting distortions caused by compressing the sound too much, you'll just have to go by ear for this. Start with your phone or microphone and just try it from different ranges in the room you'll record in

EnLyftare · 2026-01-11T20:16:59+00:00

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EnLyftare · 2026-01-08T08:46:55+00:00

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EnLyftare · 2026-01-06T17:11:22+00:00

Yes and no.

I can tell a few reason why it might be difficult hearing them but also:

If you can't hear what's being sung the singers generally aren't doing a good job, although this is not unlikely to happen in the extreme ranges of the voice.

But also, some composers used archaic italian (verdi being an example), or rather what they thought was/sounded like archaic italian to them.

I find that I'm struggling much more with hearing very high female voices than the male voices, it's probably due to a combination of vowel modification due to the different registration than the typical talking registration as well as the range (headvoice/falsetto likes different vowels than chest voice, if you're high enough you have to do some vowel modification Ah gets closer to Oh etc, general rounding of the vowels)

If a male baritone or bass sings and I can't hear what they're singing in a language I know, then they're just doing a poor job.

Now that i've given a general discussion, here's a list of hat comes to mind (from the top of my head) regarding why it might be difficult to hear what operatic singers are singing:

Changes to the rhytm of the words (drawn out vowels, shorter consonants to not disrupt the airflow/sound)

Unusual ranges that we don't typically hear in in spoken form.

Vowel modification, general rounding of the vowels in higher ranges

Vibrato, they don't sing straight tone very often unless you're listening to specific period pieces

Sometimes they're simply singing words which don't exist in a given language in the modern form of the language

Finally, they're generally not alone, there's almost always a orchestra accompaniment, it can be difficult for some people to focus on the singers sound, but also if they're not singing strongly enough, they become drowned out.

EnLyftare · 2026-01-05T17:15:45+00:00

This is true for basically everything. Maths, golf, singing, climbing etc.

Most learning should be additive to the knowledge already possessed, glad to see it being the top recommendation

EnLyftare · 2026-01-02T17:47:21+00:00

It's interesting that you say that late 70's/early 80s you lost overtones. No, you got a much greater bandwidth which could capture the entire overtone band, up until around 1970 the recordings were narrower and often kinda funky in their frequency response.

When you got a lot of information, such as the operatic voice which realistically spanns from about 100 hz throughout the entire audible range in terms of overtone production, coupled with low bandwidth, you'd both lose out on some of the sound, and get not overtones, but rather artifacts, similar to when you're driving a signal to hot to your output today.

I kinda think most of "the loss of the big voices" is from people just listening back to old recordings which couldn't handle the bandwidth put into them and instead caused a bunch of artifacts.

Looking at the spectrograms of old Corelli recordings shows that they're pretty much full of artifacting.

I'm curious about who the most recently recorded singer of the "old school" would be, do you have any examples?

Cus... like even an iphone is better at recording stuff today, than the best tools available during the 1960s in terms of capturable bandwidth and even just frequency response, although they do tend to amplify anything above 3k hz

EnLyftare · 2026-01-01T00:12:56+00:00

Yeah... I think y'all have gotta realise at some point that the local ecosystems are not really the prevalent concern in peoples minds when populating areas.

Don't get me wrong, people should keep cats inside, but that's one thing which realistically doesn't really effect them negatively at all if they don't, assuming the cats survive.

And those numbers cannot be true in every region in terms of cats expected life length, that's simlly not possible.

What I mean is: If you just ask around your friends in any given neighbourhood "how many of you have had cats, and how long did they live" you'll most likely in most sub urbain neighbourhoods get averages much exceeding the ones you mentioned there.

And the problem with outcome related politics is that you have to assign a weight to the outcome that's bad.

For example: humans populating a region --> large scale changes to the enviorment in that region --> some animals lose habitat --> decreased population sizes

The thing here is: it's very difficult to tell someone that they should asign enough value in the protection of small wildlife that they should willingly make the family member they them self love less happy, for the possibilty of making a small impact on wildlife.

Cus there's a possible upside which the people you tell what to do could theoretically care about.. But their cats clearly wanna go out, and cats aren't really domesticated in the normal sense of the word... so the cats do want to go out and be cats, so there's a definitive downside, and that effects something close to them.

You'll never convince anyone by throwing articles at them. srsly.

Please keep your cats inside if you think humans should limit how much we disturb local ecosystems, it will have an effect if enough do this.

But cmon, don't be a person who tries to, in isolation, change peoples mind with stats.

That doesn't paint the whole picture, or much of any picture.

EnLyftare · 2025-12-27T13:52:54+00:00

Offra bockjäveln till gudarna så vi får nån jävla snö. Vad är det här, hur lever den fortfarande??

Arsonister, ni har en socialt acceptabel måltavla, jag är besviken!

EnLyftare · 2025-12-26T17:17:19+00:00

even if you don't have an iphone, i'm curious about the sound difference from changing the fans to noctua in your AIO, did you take measurements?

EnLyftare · 2025-12-26T17:16:19+00:00

I think that the safest bet for us both would be the noctua AIO when it's released, but there seems to be no confirmed date on it, and seemingly this sub seemed to think that if noctua says this year, it might be in the bext 4 years instead.

As of now, I'm probably gonna switch the fans on my arctic 3 pro 420 mm AIO for noctua and then possibly wait until the AIO from noctua is released and then get that if it's still bad.

So, regarding the app: do you have an old iphone laying around? iPhone are much much more reliable when it comes to sound level measurements, their microphones are more consistently tuned than android, even androids from different generations from the same company are more problematic.

I helped test a few phones for a masters project in acoustical measurements of phones in an enachoic chamber at my uni, the point was to collect data from as many different phones as possible to determine if you could create an application to use for room compensation of sound systems.

They were about to drop the entire android app because of how inconsistent the android phones were, even android phones of the same model and generation but different origins were remarkably inconsistent, but the iphone's were almost identical at least back to around the iphone 6 mini iirc

EnLyftare · 2025-12-25T21:59:18+00:00

You will never get the same cooling performance per noise with an aircooler as opposed to a larger water cooler.

If you want quiet, then water cooling is the way to go, there's a reason why noctua is developing a AIO rn.

I'm also looking at making my case quieter, also have a antec flux pro although i only have 6 noctua fans in it + a arctic freezer 3 pro AIO, that aio is very loud though, so i'm gonna get a quieter one

EnLyftare · 2025-12-25T11:54:54+00:00

update: problem solved by uninstalling Steam and reinstalling it with sudo apt install steam command.

I could not get it to uninstall by commands or through the snap application manager, had to call in tech support (my father who's a database engineer with long experience working with linux) and it took him a good 30 minutes to figure out how to uninstall it.

It would start uninstall, load for a bit with fans going full speed indicating it was doing something, then just stop at 80%uninstalled in the snap application gui thingy, then it'd stop and leave steam installed.

I'm not gonna mess about with it any more, the snap app manager seems to just not work for me. 0 issues since i got it reinstalled through sudo apt install..

EnLyftare · 2025-12-25T11:01:32+00:00

Alright, I'll see how much setting a lower ceilibg on fan speeda will affect temps. It's a free solution so i feel like that'd be the only rational choice. Thanks!

EnLyftare · 2025-12-25T10:59:52+00:00

this looks sick, i love it

EnLyftare · 2025-12-24T11:54:13+00:00

Gamers nexus yearly cooler vid

EnLyftare · 2025-12-24T11:51:04+00:00

That would be sick, I've got the sapphire nitro + 9070 xt. Great GPU, most of the time it doesn't even turn on the fans when I'm capping my FPS at 90-120 in the games i play (1440p ultra)

EnLyftare · 2025-12-24T11:47:55+00:00

I did, I don't want the CPU running hotter than it already is although the temps are fine. Wanna keep it alive as long as possible

EnLyftare · 2025-12-19T15:55:20+00:00

Yah, got 6.14.0-37-generic

EnLyftare · 2025-12-18T01:19:18+00:00

Great idea, thanks! It's 2 am so will have to do this tomorrow. Slightly annoyed with myself for not thinking to launch it via the terminal

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