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I just filed https://chrome-please-fix-your-audio.xyz the other day for chrome bug #327472528 - apparently all audio output is noise-reduced from audio input in Chrome - even when using headphones and when explicitly disabling this feature in the Web Audio API. It basically means you can't make any music app where you sing along with a background track, among other obvious use cases for microphones.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/327472528

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Unrelated to the post, but I tried out your Loopbox app you linked in the bug report. I couldn't quite figure out how to get it working, so I clicked the question mark icon for a tutorial. But the linked YouTube video is of someone's holiday photos! Just fyi

Haha those are my photos! Forgot I had that placeholder in there. I'll remove it until I have a tutorial video in place - that's my last major task left, outside some bug fixes and waiting for Chrome to fix their audio.

As for how the site works - make sure you have a microphone and ideally headphones. Click START and you'll hear a metronome. Click ADD TRACK to record a loop. If you're musically inclined you can combine multiple recordings to make a short looping song, by either adding bars to a loop or layering multiple tracks. Hit CTRL or right-click (long press on mobile) a track to modify how it sounds or delete it.

I'll post it to Show HN hopefully soon.

It was clipping for me in firefox too.

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