Lars Schotte wrote: > The soundcard has following chipset - C-Media CMI8738-LX. This chip was designed before on-board sound devices were common, and manages to have worse analog sound quality than many of those, especially on its inputs. > So I try to record from the line in input, ... > its too silent and there is a lot of noise in it. Even if your current mixer settings are suboptimal and can be improved (please show the output of "amixer contents" or the alsa-info output), be aware that this card never will have good quality. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel