Omnidirectional mics are good and way under $1 on Aliexpress. Unidirectional mics have more noise ( look at the s/n number) and worse high frequency response.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 6:31 AM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2023/01/27 09:41, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Jan 26 23:58:26, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:37:31 +0100 > > > > From: Jan Stary <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Ah, sory for the noise: I had AUDIODEVICE set up in /etc/profile > > > > to point to another machine (before audio started working on this > macbook), > > > > which I only realized now that _that_ machine is up :-) > > > > > > > > Recording still doesn't work though. > > > > Is anyone recording on the M1 MacBook Air? > > > > > > What do you want to record? > > > > Just speech, occasionaly (meetings). > > So from the microphone then, which is the tricky area. > > That's also the case for many modern amd64 laptops too by the way. > They typically have an array of (probably MEMS) microphones and a > DSP running some firmware to process them (search terms: intel sst, > soundopenfirmware, dmic, ...) > > > The laptop mikes are usualy very poor for anything else anyway. > > That's getting improved a lot by the above, but it makes it more > complicated to support. > >
