On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 07:44 +0100, Mike Evans wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > Just in case it helps, I've seen a similar thing with Audacity on all > > the PCs that I've run it on (each with different hardware). With no > > audio input, the VU meters show one channel wildly fluttering about, and > > with increased gain over the other. With a signal, it's somewhat > > similar (fluttering meter, mismatched left versus right gain, but the > > audio records pretty much okay). In the end, I plugged the computer > > into a real audio mixer, ran tests to find the nominal and clipping > > levels, then ignored the metering on the computer. > > Thanks for your thoughts. The PC I've replaced with the new Shuttle one > doesn't seem to have this problem and I have used it for converting some > old cassette recordings to OGG-Vorbis. That just had an ancient > 2-channel Soundblaster card. The audacity meters worked pretty much as > you would expect. I may yet raid it for that card and dump the on-board > on the Shuttle. > > I have tried ignoring the meter and recording using this chipset, but > the noise is worse than I would get on a cheap tape recorder, and only > records on the left channel, which is useless. Running under Vista it > records quite acceptably. Hurumph! > Have you tried removing pulse audio? That really messed up my wife's system. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
