On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Mark Goldstein wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Mark Goldstein >> <goldstein.mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Axel Braun <axel.braun@xxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Mark Goldstein wrote: >>>> >> was able to record the audio from Mic using audacity! After some more >> playing I found out that when I select "mute" for Capture1" it is >> actually unmuted and vise-versa. somehow Capture1 control is broken. >> Still I have very distorted Mic audio in Skype (and it also worked >> fine before). But it is a bit of progress! > > skype by default has automatic volume control So it may be that there is a > very weak signal coming in and skype is amplifying the hell our of it, > giving > a lot of noise (and distortion). > Make sure that the automatic volume control in skype is switched OFF. It is > pretty useless at the best of times. > If you mean this "allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels" check-box, then yes, I know about it. I always disable it. Regards, -- Mark Goldstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
