Video - DaVinci Resolve - microphone for voice-overs

A budget-friendly, USB-powered cardioid condenser microphone

I plug it in and see:

Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: usb 1-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0c76, idProduct=161e, bcdDevice= 1.00
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: usb 1-1.3: Product: USB PnP Audio Device
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: usb 1-1.3: Warning! Unlikely big volume step count (=496), linear volume or wrong cval->res?
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: usb 1-1.3: [50] FU [Mic Capture Volume] ch = 1, val = 0/7936/16
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: input: USB PnP Audio Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.2/0003:0C76:161E.0009/input/input24
Aug 13 16:41:30 trona kernel: hid-generic 0003:0C76:161E.0009: input,hidraw7: USB HID v1.00 Device [USB PnP Audio Device] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.3/input2

I am running Fedora 44 with xfce. I go to Multimedia -- Volume Control and select the "Input Devices" tab. I see "USB PnP Audio Device Mono" with a fluctuating "meter". Indeed this is the Fifine -- I can see the meter fluctuate when I talk into it.

However, DR does not see any signal. The only microphone option it gives me is "Default" and that very likely is the currently unoccupied jack on my motherboard "sound card".

I read further and am told that getting the Fifine to work is tricky. DR uses ALSA, but modern linux uses pipewire (or pulseaudio). There are alsa compatibility plugins for Fedora:

dnf install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio