Thanks for the reply. > Is audacity recording via pulseaudio? It's set to "ALSA" for its host interface, and it doesn't seem to offer other options. Other software like obs-studio works fine. I haven't done a comprehensive survey but I'm happy to try other methods. I doubt this is an audacity bug since even after exiting, it leaves my audio device in a broken state. > That is, if you keep arecord running (over pulseaudio), and > start audacity in parallel Good idea . I just tried, and the recording becomes garbled at the precise instant where audacity is started ! > without the need of complex sound system setup. This is already as simple as I can make it .... reboot, run arecord / audacity, and the problem is 100% repeatable. Regards, Chris
