Recommendation for a good audio recording application for KDE on Fedora 41

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Hello folks,

Does anyone have recommendations for good (works well and is trustworthy) application to record audio?
I’m running Fedora 41 and KDE.

I did a little looking around and came across these names:
krecorder
audacity

But I just thought I’d ask before going and installing things blind with no information about them…

Thanks,

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I use the one from GNOME

But OBS would be fine too. The flatpak from flathub, add the pipewire plugins and you even have that.

Just try? I can recommend flatpaks (and dont bother with fedora flatpaks, add flathub in the discover settings) to try a bunch of software as it does not touch your system

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If you’re installing applications from the default repositories, you’re probably okay security-wise at least if that’s what you mean by trustworthy. In that sense, it’s okay to just try.

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For audio specifically, I would do Audacity or Ardour depending on how complex your needs are. If you want a simple multi-track with some simple effects and tools that allow you to edit and export/encode, then Audacity. If you want some more complex audio production than that, then Ardour.

https://ardour.org/

They are both available in Fedora. There’s also the Fedora Jam SIG if you want to designate a Fedora box around it. The Jam Spin is KDE based.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Jam_Audio_Spin

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There’s also KDE’s own Kwave:

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Great, thank you for the detail…

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Thanks.

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Thanks to all for the replies and suggestions.