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Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020)


I walk through how and why I routed my call audio through a DAW

December 27, 2020 Toward the beginning of the pandemic, a friend asked me how she could use an external vocal mic and a guitar with a pickup on Zoom calls. Selecting the input for that track feels almost like just using the regular USB audio interface, but with a whole bunch of other channels thanks to being aggregated with BlackHole. To share system sound, I went back to Audio MIDI Setup and under Configure Speakers told it that for stereo out, BlackHole 16ch uses channels 3 and 4.

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