On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:34:19 -0600 Kevin Kempter <kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all; > > my son (the musician) has Fedora 11 installed on an HP HDX-16 laptop. > > He wants to record some of his band sessions, we tried using 'sound recorder' > and plugging the output of his mixer into the mic input on the laptop. > > It does record but the sound is fuzzy and to say it was poor quality would be > an over-estimate, since it's there but barely audible. > > > Can anyone give us some direction per sound recorders for linux in general and > specifically how to debug & correct this issue with the mic input? Same as any other audio system Start by - Making sure the deck output and the laptop input impedance match - Probably you want line-in not mic - Try and get the levels right each end - usual rule of thumb is that the analogue amps are most linear around 66%, digital doesn't matter. - If at all possible use the digital input (and to be honest with the noise you get in a PC environment if you are doing anything remotely serious [1] then you probably want to get hardware with a digital input if the laptop doesn't have it anyway (eg a USB dongle) Alan [1] If you didn't spend $200+ on the microphones you probably aren't in this category ;) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
