[06:05] <cfhowlett> Knock knock: @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Meetings  "The Ubuntu Studio development team regularly meets on the first Sunday of every month at 17:00 UTC" ... no updates after August 2012.
[09:41] <FisherMack> Hey folks
[09:42] <cfhowlett> FisherMack, greetings
[09:42] <FisherMack> Can anyone suggest a good sound card for recording mostly speech but occasionally music as well?
[09:42] <FisherMack> howdy, cfhowlett
[09:43] <zequence> cfhowlett: we don't do a lot of meetings these days. All though, we meet online pretty much every day
[09:43] <cfhowlett> FisherMack, i'm guessing this is for a desktop box?
[09:43] <FisherMack> I need something that will play well with ubuntu
[09:43] <FisherMack> Yeah
[09:43] <cfhowlett> FisherMack, http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x96.html
[09:43] <cfhowlett> FisherMack, done and done
[09:44] <FisherMack> Look at ya go.. lol Thanks cfhowlett
[09:44] <cfhowlett> FisherMack, errr or not.  OLD list
[09:44] <zequence> FisherMack: What is more important than your device is propably what microphone you use, depending on your needs
[09:45] <FisherMack> Well I will be using a mixer and amp. I connect my mics to my mixer and my mixer to my amp and my amp to the sound card.
[09:45] <zequence> http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=hardware
[09:45] <cfhowlett> FisherMack, mixer?  or interface?
[09:46] <FisherMack> Behringer Xenyx 502
[09:47] <zequence> FisherMack: Why not connect the mixer direcly to the sound device? And what kind of amp are you talking about? Stereo AMP?
[09:48] <FisherMack> Weeellllll that's just it... Money is lacking and I don't have the best of equipment. The amp I am using is a Fender Bullet 150
[09:48] <zequence> FisherMack: For recording, it is more important with a good audio device, but I suspect you can get pretty decent results using just a builtin, if you have an ok mic and mic amp
[09:49] <zequence> I haven't tried that myself for about 12 years or so
[09:49] <zequence> builtin cards have progressed since then :P
[09:50] <FisherMack> Yeah, I am using my builtin card for the input.. My sound only seems to work for OUTPUT and none of my INPUTS work so I have to use the builtin
[09:52] <zequence> FisherMack: You have multiple devices?
[09:52] <FisherMack> I have the builtin, an ASUS Xonar DG and an NVIDIA video card with HDMI support
[09:53] <zequence> oh, right
[09:53] <zequence> hdmi will only work for output of course
[09:54] <FisherMack> right but I don't use it for that anyhow... I use it to my 2nd monitor
[09:57] <FisherMack> But the HDMI shows up in my audacity
[09:59] <FisherMack> but the inputs on my sound card do not...
[09:59] <FisherMack> I can only figure it is something with my card doesnt like
[10:03] <FisherMack> which is why I was asking for suggestions for good sound cards for ubuntu
[10:04] <zequence> FisherMack: I still think it's strange it doesn't work
[10:04] <zequence> FisherMack: Do inputs work with pulseaudio?
[10:05] <zequence> FisherMack: Also, are you able to start jack at all?
[10:11] <FisherMack> lol
[10:11] <FisherMack> No and No
[10:11] <FisherMack> Inputs don't work whatsoever
[10:12] <FisherMack> On the sound card that is. The builtin inputs work
[10:19] <zequence> FisherMack: Then it's a alsa bug. Have you reported a bug?
[10:25] <FisherMack> No
[10:26] <zequence> FisherMack: Do you have a launchpad account?
[10:26] <FisherMack> I didn't think it was a bug. I just figured it my was card
[10:26] <FisherMack> No
[10:28] <zequence> FisherMack: Get yourself an account. Just so you have one, and can log in. This will enable you to report bugs, and comment on them https://launchpad.net/
[10:28] <zequence> FisherMack: Then, in a terminal, do: ubuntu-bug alsa-base
[10:32] <FisherMack> OK done
[10:33] <zequence> I figure alsa-base is the correct package, but the actual drivers are probably a part of the kernel
[10:35] <FisherMack> Ok the bug data is being processed
[19:59] <SonikkuAmerica> Does Ubuntu Studio follow the LTS plan for Ubuntu or Xubuntu, or does it have its own release plan?
[20:00] <SonikkuAmerica> s/release/LTS
[20:25] <FisherMack> I beleive it does
[20:25] <FisherMack> Follow Ubuntu that is
[20:26] <FisherMack> gahh