Hi, > Does it communicate with alsa-lib pulse plugin? Or is it the direct > ALSA device access? Ah, good question. I'm not sure how to determine that but looking into it. Tried strace but I wasn't sure what to look for in the deluge of info. > Do you mean that the sound from arecord gets garbled? Correct : playing back the file just produced (arecord -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 44100 arec_44k.wav), sound is normal until I started audacity, then the rest of the audio is 10x accelerated. > arecord, is it over pulseaudio (with alsa-lib pulse plugin)? Probably ? alsa-lib is installed and pulseaudio running normally, and I just gave default options to arecord. > No, I mean the way to trigger without audacity I understand. I haven't found a simpler way (yet). Thanks, Chris