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Episode: 530
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Title: HPR0530: Setting up the samson C01u in linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0530/hpr0530.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 22:34:30
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Setting up the Samsung C01U in Linux. First off, when you buy any sort of microphone,
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get something really experiment with the variety of microphones.
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Personally, I like the large diaphragm condenser mics, and the one I have is the Samsung C01U.
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It costs around, I think it's about $100 now.
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I ended up getting the microphone, the big shock mount, power filter, and a moon stand.
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One thing that will ship with it is a tripod desk stand.
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The thing, it's kind of cheap. Really, if you don't have any need for it, throw it away.
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It'll do good in a pinch like, say if you're going to interview someone at a conference.
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But that's really about it. I mean, I'm sure they had good intentions, but I do not trust a,
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someone expensive microphone, to that.
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Alright, the first thing that we're going to have to do when we get this microphone,
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I bought mine from Amazon, CB Shockdown, power filter, and a moon stand.
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You know, the microphone altogether was around $200, which is really not bad for a studio quality microphone.
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Now, once we get the microphone in our hands, we do a lot of happy dance,
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because you know, watching UPS tracking will drive you crazy.
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What you should do is carefully, very carefully open everything and lay it out.
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That's a habit of mine, and really just kind of index all the parts.
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I don't know, it seems kind of anal, but, you know, we've all been in a situation where
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you didn't give everything that was supposed to come with it.
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You have to call the company, complain, wait for that part.
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Yeah, that's not exactly fun.
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So, after you lay everything out, what you should do is you take, say, a large-ish screwdriver
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or the blade of a knife, look at the bottom of the microphone,
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and you'll see a three-eighths inch adapter, take it out, turn it camera clockwise,
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and almost forgot which clockwise it was.
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Yeah, because I'm brilliant.
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So, anyway, after you remove the adapter, if you bought the shock mount,
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take a look at it and do the same, then you will take the shock mount.
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If you have a boom stand, what you should do is do what the easiest thing to do
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is to just screw the arm off.
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It's just, it's on a regular, but what we'll call the body of the stand.
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It has pretty much just a standard straight microphone stand.
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The easiest thing to do is just screw the bit on the arm off.
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You can take it off using a screw that holds it on top,
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or you can just screw the whole bit off.
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Without having to mess with it, take it off the screw, open the gun.
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It doesn't fall and smash your toe, which happened to be in that really hurts.
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You can take it, screw the hole into the shock mount.
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Just hold the shock mount one hand, screw the hole in with the other.
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Then make sure the shock mount, or spider mount, whatever you want to call it,
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is facing the proper way, then place the microphone into it,
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and there is a, it looks kind of a dial on the bottom,
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but it's actually first screwing the microphone into the shock mount.
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Secure that after you put the boom arm back on, of course,
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because you don't want to drop that with your microphone in it.
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Then put it in a desirable location, just really experiment.
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If you sit down the podcast, if that's what you're using for,
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or you're just sitting into it, then put it at a way where you can easily access it,
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and swing it two more away from you.
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I find it's easiest to have it on my left side,
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where I can easily control with my left hand,
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as I optionally read stories off the computer monitor for the podcast,
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and I operate the mouse with the right hand.
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So now that you have your full microphone kit assembled,
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and it looks like a starter baby, pretty nice,
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with a recording studio on the cheap,
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take the provided USB cable,
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plug it into the microphone, and plug it into your computer.
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It does really matter what limits you're running.
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You know, it can be arched, the door out of a boat too.
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I set it up on all three, and it's easy as pie on all three.
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My favorite mixer to use is G mixer, but more on that in a minute.
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I'll include it with the microphone,
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aside from the desk stand that we will throw away,
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or you can keep it around, it doesn't matter.
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Aside from the desk stand,
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who wish you can keep it throw away, it doesn't matter.
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It's a copy of Sonar LE Cakewalk software.
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It's an audio editing software, much like Audacity,
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but this mic works beautifully with Audacity.
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You know, my tour of saying about G mixer,
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to really get this mic going right,
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the right channel is boosted a little bit more than the left one,
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which is not really a huge issue.
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It's something I had to go digging around to find out,
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but once I got it going,
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I quite enjoy this microphone.
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I'm using it right now, actually.
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Open up, say G mixer,
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unlink the audio channels,
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and set the left channel to around 65 to 70%.
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If you're recording on Audacity,
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whenever the, when you click to monitor microphone input,
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whenever the meter for the two channels is even,
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or slightly offset, which are the way you like it,
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then you can go ahead and start recording with it.
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But if you're using this microphone for, say,
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Skype or Akigya or Gizmo,
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you can leave it as it is,
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since it will be compressed to a mono channel anyway.
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It doesn't really matter too much for that.
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But once you get this microphone set up
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and in a desired location,
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then it should last you a very long time.
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Mine has a little bit of damage on the top of it.
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I took it to Ohio Linux Fest in 2009.
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It survived all through the entire event.
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When I got home,
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I had my laptop back open,
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which is where the mic was,
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and it rolled out,
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and hit part of my bed.
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And the plastic bit,
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a lot of what we call a bit,
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bit worse,
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over the metal mesh on top of it.
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Cracked, another was a dent in the mesh.
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It doesn't really affect the sound at all.
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So this has been
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setting up the Samsung C-01U in Linux.
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I'm TJ, take it easy,
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and happy podcasting.
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Thank you for listening to Hack with Public Radio.
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so head on over to C-A-R-O.N-E-C for all of her TV.
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Thanks for watching.
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