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hey, do any of you know audio hardware stuff? i have a keyboard with a 6.35 mm (1⁄4 in) audio output. i believe it's stereo (trs). i want to record it without horrible usb interference noise, so i want something with uhhh some kind of isolation? (what is that called). what do i buy. i would prefer to spend less than 100 €

i probably want an “audio interface”, that's my going assumption so far, but something that is driving me up the wall is not even the good manufacturers seem to specify whether they can record in stereo. the fact the output is stereo means nothing, what about the input!!!

oh okay, the fact the input of the “scarlett solo” is mono is actually on their site at least (buried deep in the manual, not explicitly stated in the specification list)

oh my god why is every connector standard a compatibility nightmare. the way mono (ts) and stereo (trs) connectors interact is scary enough by itself, but then there's mono with differential pairs (“balanced audio”, also trs)…

from now on i am going to release my music recordings as 2-channel flac files, but instead of the second channel being intended for stereo, it's just the inverse of the first one. i'm calling it “balanced flac”

@hikari I remember somebody encountering an MP3 file like that some years ago on hydrogenaudio forums. Took a while for somebody to figure out why the file played fine on headphones, but mostly as silence through phone speaker.