On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 02:21:29PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 11:49:32AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > > Am Freitag, dem 04.02.2022 um 17:21 +0000 schrieb Charles Keepax: > > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:43:53AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > > Volume itself indeed is good now. Recorded voice is very "metallic" and > > "shallow" if you know what I mean - and distorted when using MAX > > volume. The gnome audio recorder doesn't show *any* signal in the UI, > > so that must still be kind of bad - even though I understand recorded > > voice way better now than before. > > > > My first thought is that the signal is clipping somewhere in the > chain. You have a lot of the gaines up very high from when you > were trying to working around the low signal level issues. > > Can we be clear here on what paths are in play here. Presumably > the gnome audio recorder is capturing over the I2S. When you say > you can understand the recorded voice way better now, do you mean > in the file captured by the gnome audio recorder? Or are you > listening to that on another path, like direct to the headphones? > > > thanks for all the time and help, and sorry for all the wrong amixer > > output I sent you, > > > Hey, just wanted to check everything was going ok on this stuff? Did the volume tweaks get things sounding more normal, and any other problems you guys are having? Thanks, charles