Hi I really appreciate all the response about my problems with multiple sound cards. The right answer for me was the .asoundrc file. I got the info from alsa.org & went from there. I still didn't get jack to respond favorably but I can record in real time using the arecord command. As the recording needs to be totally unattended (I may not be there) this arecord command along with cron will get the job done. As I do now, I can edit it after the fact. Thanks again for the help Harold
