Greg, > I have a hammerfall 9636 card on my linux 64 studio machine. got it > working today but have a question regarding recording volume on the > card. The thing is that it seems too low. When connecting the > microphone directly to the AEB-8 extension board for analog input, I > only have vague recording level. The AEB-8 uses line level (+4 dBu or -10 dBV, selectable) for input. You need a mic preamplifier to make a line level out of your microphone level, e.g. the QuadMic/OctaMic (if you want to stay with RME and need a plain microphone preamp). You cannot feed a plain microphone signal into a line in. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key 6C002249 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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