Audio Recording

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I settled on arecord.
One question I did have, is there a way to hear the audio input source? On the old sound blaster cards, they had a "what you hear" option. So you could plug in your microphone or stereo and hear it through your headphones and adjust the volume accordingly.

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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
To: blinux-list at redhat.com
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 21:30:54 -1000
Subject: Re: Audio Recording

> > What are we using for audio recording on linux these days. In the gui. Is audacity still the best one from an a11y standpoint? How about CLI?
> > I'm interested in recording from line-in so I can archive some of my tapes.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >From the command line, probably sox, ecasound or arecord. For
> example, ecasound -i:alsa,default -f:16,2,48000 -o:tape1.wav
> 
> This records from the default ALSA soundcard, in stereo 16
> bit depth at 48kHz to file tape1.wav. I think there is a
> parameter for duration if you know in advance, and you can
> also just stop the engine with Ctrl-C.
> 
> For multitrack recording in a terminal, I can offer a
> shameless plug for Nama, based on Ecasound. Nama does most
> of what you would want for recording, mixing and mastering
> in a text environment. 
> 
> A prolific user of this program has posted many of her compositions here:
> http://juliencoder.de/nama/
> 
> Here is some information about project:
> http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html
> https://metacpan.org/release/Audio-Nama
> 
> Feel free to contact me for support.
> 
> Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com>
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