This actually needs two instances of BlackHole because Zoom can only send and receive from the first two channels of any audio interface.įortunately, they offer direct downloads (email required) of each (and have nice instructions for building from source).
#Blackhole 2ch vs 16ch driver
The key ingredient here is BlackHole, a virtual audio driver that acts as a passthrough from each input to the corresponding output 1.
This post explains the setup I’ve been using for my calls. Plus, when working from home for a microphone company, it’s pretty common to use a decent mic in meetings.
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.īut to have the amount of control a musician really wants, it turned out to be a bit more involved. Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio Let’s not make the same mistake with climate change, squandering the remaining time we have while waiting for a scientific miracle. Had we heeded epidemiologists’ advice on COVID, millions of lives around the world could have been saved. Political will to do things that hurt in the short term before the status quo does even more damage to more people. Political will to fund science that can get us even partway there. We’ll need science to get us out of this, yes, but also political will. I am absolutely thrilled that mRNA vaccine technology was practically ready and waiting to be applied to SARS-CoV-2 in record time, but it scares me that it reinforces a solutionist attitude: “See? Science saved us from the pandemic, so it’ll also save us from climate change!”
This technological solutionism, waiting for a technological savior instead of making sacrifices, is at play in climate change, too. We had been passively waiting for science to save us with vaccines, and this time we got lucky: science delivered. We had all been waiting for medicine to end the pandemic, any too many people had been ignoring epidemiology’s “inconvenient” non-medical interventions like social distancing and mask wearing. I felt grateful for the incredible work of the many brilliant and hard-working people both before and during the pandemic who allowed us to reach that moment.īut fear of what this medical marvel might symbolize was also on my mind. There’s something dark - and decidedly not normal - about a space designed for fun being used as a medical facility. It had then been repurposed into a makeshift medical facility where vaccines were being administered on a mass scale. As I sat waiting the requisite 15 minutes to make sure I didn’t go into anaphylactic shock, I looked out over the arena and reflected on the historic nature of that moment.Ī building designed for basketball, concerts, and large-scale events sat empty for nearly a year because gatherings were a threat to public health.
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