Online jamming equipment for a laptop

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Online jamming equipment for a laptop

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Hi all,

I've recently started playing a bit online with folks over zoom, and running sound via a mike started getting old real fast.

I'm looking for a recommendation for something that would cover my (pretty simplistic at this point) needs:

What a have:
- A Fedora 34 laptop with a bluetooth adapter and a standard phone+mic 3.5mm jack and some USB ports of course (Lenovo T480s, T14s, X220)
- An electric guitar with a Valeton Rushhead max miniamp (which is plenty for my needs)
- A small 20W Peavey combo, again, nothing fancy and hopefully not needed for this setup once I've got some answers

What I want to do: plug the valetone into the guitar in otder to use the effects it provides, and from there plug it into a gizmo that would:
- push the sound into the incoming sound channel on the laptop (so it hits the zoom session)
- add a mic input so I can talk tot he people on the other side as well

Bascially I want to remain in the session but also mix in a channel coming from my amp, instead of doing everything in the air with a microphone.

All of this has to work with Linux, hopefully without too much kmod compiling (I'm on Fedora, not Gentoo here :) )


If you have experience with a similar type of rig or anything in my description is unclear, please feel free to comment.

Thanks everyone
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It's possible to get jack audio into Zoom, with some fiddling. That would probably do what you want.
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Right but what kind of USB mixer would work with Linux? Something in a decent price range, available from Amazon or Newegg and of course Linux compatible

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Ah, gotcha.

I have a Behringer Xenyx 1204 USB which works well and wasn't too expensive. It's class-compliant and works out of the box. That's generally true of Behringer hardware, as far as I understand. The only caveat with this particular device is that its usb audio is only the stereo mix -- it doesn't make its individual tracks accessible to the computer as individual inputs.
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milo wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:28 am Ah, gotcha.

I have a Behringer Xenyx 1204 USB which works well and wasn't too expensive. It's class-compliant and works out of the box. That's generally true of Behringer hardware, as far as I understand. The only caveat with this particular device is that its usb audio is only the stereo mix -- it doesn't make its individual tracks accessible to the computer as individual inputs.
Perfect! And I'll need to plug in an external microphone into it as well, right?
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Yes. A USB mic won't work with that setup.
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