Aha! I was using a standard dynamic microphone. This was probably my problem. Thanks. I'll look into getting a new mic and give it another shot. Rudy On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:17:00PM -0600, L. C. Robinson wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, A. R. Vener wrote: > > > Internally the software thinks it is a soundblaster. Am I > > correct in assuming that one of the other stereo jacks is the > > microphone input? > > On my version of the genuine soundblaster, the center one is the > microphone jack. Make sure you have the right type of mic. It > must be one of the powered electret ones made for computers -- > very inexpensive. Dynamic ones don't work. These take a plug > that is just like a stereo plug, but one of the leads is used for > power, I believe, not stereo. Then use a utility like aumix > (which can be used from the command line) to set the microphone > input to a reasonable level, and to record: > > aumix -m Record -m 80 -m query > > for recording at 80 percent input volume or, more tersely: > > aumix -mR -m80 -mq > > -- L. C. Robinson > reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list