> Each time you start to record you have a > 10% chance of having the recording completely > distorted and having a metallic sound. I know that sound. And it is quite ugly. On my snd-hda-intel board(nVidia MCP61), I have to increase the number of periods to overcome this sound. default of 2 increased to 3 and all was fine, in jackd -n 3. For arecord you might look at different than default buffer/period sizes. It's basically a latency issue. Other considerations are to give the audio group realtime permissions so things like ethernet traffic doesn't cause clicks and other distortions in the sound. /etc/security/limits.conf HTH, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user