yes, I will post it, like I said, I am not on that computer now. I dont have any windows now, so maybe I ll get some copy from bittorrent or whatever, I didnt use windows for a long time. I dont know if it has a passthrough. its only I cant otherwise explain, why the sound card is working good on playback and the recroding is such bad quality. On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:14:04 +0200 Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > (please don't top-post) > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 01:00:55PM +0200, Lars Schotte wrote: > > OK. but the question is, does it put noise in recording in windows > > as well? > > Does it? Given that nobody else here happens to have the same audio > card, I believe you're on your own to find out whether this is a > hardware or driver issue. > > > I maybe solved it w/ activating the old hd audio integraded snd > > card, whichs broken, but line-in works and i tried it recording w/ > > it and that works perfectly. you say, that the cards never going to > > have a good sound quality. I am sure it doesnt, but what I am > > getting isnt even good enough. there is written on the box that I > > can record with it in 44khz and so on, cd quality and whatever, so > > is it a lie? > > "44khz and so on" just tells you how the ADC/DAC works, it says > nothing about the analog audio performance. So, vendors can screw the > entire analog path and still claim they operating on CD quality > digitally, yes. Welcome to the real world. > > > i tried out manipulating w/ the mixer, believe me, however, i ll > > post some output later, but the settings can not be set better, > > because the only relevant setting here is the line-in and that is > > already on maximum. the second thing that i dont understand about > > this card is, that when I play sth at line-in, the sound is > > perfect, but the recording is crappy. so does it have a line-in to > > line-out passthrough? > > Is there any software active to enable that pass-thru? Or is that a > hardare feature? > > > but then hows that possible that I can regulate it on my mixer and > > even mute line-in completely? > > Maybe you should provide the output you have been asked for, namely > your mixer settings and the output of the alsa-info.sh script. > > And the information about how the same hardware performs under Windows > would also help you and other understand where the problem might be. > > HTH, > Daniel > > > > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:52:38 +0200 > > Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 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 -- ------------------- Lars Schotte @ romy _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
