Le Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:22:29 +0100, Alf Haakon Pietruszka Lund <alf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > Hello all, > > I'm considering to test Linux mint for my 'sound machine' - a normal > laptop that's used for modest recording and editing of sounds and > music, as well as miscellaneous office work. For me, the main issue with laptops is the audio hardware, not the distribution. The analogue part of their combined mic/line audio inputs are optimized for a sound level of 0dB, which correspond to their line level. In order to get the best possible sound of it, you must set the input level at 0dB with alsamixer, run a vu-meter, connect it to the input and use an external mixer or device to set the recording level on the vu-meter. That way, you can get a decent sound quality even with the built-in audio card. Also, less important but still important if you want to get the best out of the hardware - you must test the sound card with different sampling rates. It was discussions here in the past, pointing the fact that many cheap sound cards A/D converters are always working at a fixed sampling frequency (at the maximum sampling rate frequency the card can do), and that the card will make a sampling rate conversion when the JACK/ALSA sampling rate is lower. Cheap hardware imply cheap conversion with a lot of aliasing artefacts, and it will be better to use the highest sampling rate the card can do for recording, and to make a software sampling rate conversion afterwards. > > Anyone here try that before? Any pitfalls to avoid? For mint, I have no idea, I am a happy gentoo user with no experience of mint. Best, Dominique > > Regards, Alf -- If you have a problem and you are not doing anything to fix it, you are at the heart of the problem. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
