James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Florian Faber wrote: > >> On Saturday 12 April 2008 20:14:44 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> >> >>> That sounds reasonable for now. Professional sound card users will >>> maybe just have to remember to mute the master control before >>> connecting their speakers. >>> >>> >> This is very, very dangerous - not only can it harm the equipment, it >> can also harm the user. 0dBFS equals >121dB at a distance 2m away from >> my head, and I have a *small* setup. >> >> To be honest, I think I would then insert a switch in the RME driver >> that will enable the outputs only after the RME mixer application has >> been started. >> >> >> Flo >> >> > > Thats not very helpful really. > What value should we set it to then? > Another alternative could be to leave everything at 0dB except the master. > For the master we could select say minimum dB + 12. > So, if the Master ranged from -70 to 0 dB, we would set Master to -70 + > 12 = -58dB. > > Would that suit everyone better. > > James > > Note this should be set after boot up. All ALSA drivers in the kernel should still default to muted. Once the value has been set, it is remember over a reboot and changed from the kernel mutes in a boot up init.d script. James _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
