Hi, Which kind / model of mic is more likely to work properly.with Linux Mint?
I already tried Audio Technica ATR 2500x USB, but impossible (for me) to get it working correctly, so I returned it.
Any models that would definitely work? For example, either Audio Technica or perhaps Samson CO1?
Would any XLR microphone work, since it goes with its own sound card?
It’s a month later (but I’ve just joined the forum!) and I don’t use Mint, but here goes:
I got a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface (and a Rode NT1-A XLR mic but the actual mic is probably irrelevant). Plugging this into my laptop with Kubuntu 20.04 (uses PulseAudio) it was recognised and worked immediately, no installation or configuration required. In fact it took me longer to remember that you have to switch on the 48V phantom power …
So as the previous posters said, any USB audio interface is likely to be class compliant and work straight away.
Only if you want a condenser microphone to work. They have electronics inside and the “battery” has to come from somewhere.
Oddly, it’s not a Forever Law that you use 48 volt phantom power. I have a head-mounted microphone with its own battery and lots of news gathering and performance microphones have their own tiny battery. That would seem awkward and expensive until the first important job where you get stuck with a sound mixer that doesn’t supply 48 volt phantom power. These self-powered microphones will plug into anything.