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Comment by jannyfer | Hacker News Reader

This “Mic Check AI” - I actually just want to try this one feature.

I never know what gain I should set on my XLR mic + USB audio interface and I also don’t know how Teams/Webex will do to my signal. Is it compressing my signal? Noise gating it? No idea!

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You don't need AI, the one you have in your brain is enough, you just need to teach it what to look for :)

There is bunch of introduction material about "gain staging" online, here's just one to get you started: https://www.audiotechnology.com/tutorials/microphones-levels...

Or, if this is a solved problem with "AI" (a nonsense name for the most part, but if that's what they call it, that's what they call it) then don't and use the tools that get the job done. I have no reason to learn how a variable transmission engine works just to go shopping, and I have no reason to learn what to look for if tools do that for me. That's the whole point of good tooling: to turn conventional "you need to learn X before you can Y" into "this is archaic and no one needs to know this anymore". Or perhaps more in line with Adobe products: no one in their right mind is going to learn how to create uniform blurs with successive blends when they can just hit "filters -> blur -> gaussian blur". The tool made the traditional approach obsolete. Here's to many more things made obsolete.

You can try it now at https://shasta.adobe.com/miccheck

You can use it right now if you make a free account: http://shasta.adobe.com/miccheck

Not mobile friendly yet though.

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