Record Audio quality

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Hi
last year I had posted a question concerning the audio quality of the direct commentary function, i.e. clicking on the mike-symbol and then record.

I was ok with the quality, given that I am only commenting things, but today I installed the version 26.2.26, and the result sounds like everything is being compressed more. There are a lot of artifacts which sound even like a misguided noise-canceling function.
Do others hear the same phenomenon or is it just on my Windows PC?
I might add that - also today - there were some driver updates, however, I have taken to using a separate audio program to record the comments and then insert the audio file into Shotcut.

The audo program does not face any issues when recording.

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Did you rule out the USB mic / drivers as the source of the noise cancellation artifacting by recording a test track in another application like audacity?

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It’s a Røde USB mini, and it doesn’t come with extra drivers. The mike works well with Magix Samplitude music studio (which I’m currently using to avoid the artifacts).

Sound example

(I hope this works)

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requested access to the file.

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Are you using a build we provided? The function simply uses ffmpeg CLI to record to a .opus file. That should default to using libopus if the build includes that, which ours do. Otherwise, the inbuilt opus encoder in ffmpeg is inferior.

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Please use the terminology the English UI uses if possible so more people understand you. It is Timeline > Record Audio. I changed the subject on this thread.

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All I can say is that I downloaded the new version of Shotcut, and that I did not knowingly install anything else.

Is there anywhere that I can see which library the program is using?