Jan Depner wrote: > >> Moreover I found out that xmms and audiacity play >> it a bit faster and higher than the original data, even though I always >> use the DAT's master clock! :-( > >The problem there is that your DAT is probably at 44100 and your card >defaults to 48000. Check in envy24control. You are right - sorry! When playing around I changed from a low level 48 kHz to a full level 44,1 kHz tape... Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Please upgrade... > > ... if alone because dmix'ing as I described in c't will not work with > this ALSA version and the Audiophile. ;) Hm, I am a bit averse from upgrading because I am afraid that this may result in conflicts with all that YaST stuff (and actually I do not need dmix for recording). Do I also have to build a new kernel to upgrade ALSA? >> Well, -f S16_LE -r 48000 -c 2 is identical to -f dat and actually also >> results in a mute file. > Your problem probably is, that you are *not* recording from your > digital input, but from the device called "default", which arecord > uses by default. "default" corresponds to "plughw:0W unless you > changed something in asoundrc (but you didn't do this). Yes, I think this is the reason for my problem. As I said there are no asoundrc files on my box. So I am going to learn about asoundrc and then create one. > Although I also have the Audiophile, I don't have any digital audio > gear, so I never tried to record from that and thus I don't know the > name of the digital ALSA device off-hand, but maybe someone else here > does? I am sure I can find this information somewhere on the ALSA webite. > BTW: OSS emulation on the Audiophile can be a bit tricky sometimes > because of the chipset, so you should try to use ALSA wherever > possible with this card. Sounds like a good idea to me. Anyhow I think that arecord is the perfect tool for recording from DAT - if it works... ;-) davidrclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Regarding low levels with some 24/96 cards: The inputs are lowered to 8.3% > to account for 12 (or so) channels so that clipping won't occur, I presume. > So if you have a 2-channel 24/96 card, your inputs are way too low > when using ICE1712, for example. (This is true for arecord, not qarecord.) > If you do arecord with verbose output (-v), you will see exactly what the > reduction is. I should mention that this is with analog --- I would expect > the same with SPDIF. Is this also true if you do not use the mixer? What a nonsense! :-( > Using qarecord, this problem doesn't exist. I looked at the code, but > again couldn't find where the input levels were maintained versus arecord > where they are lowered. At present I cannot access my Linux box to find out if qarecord is installed. I am going to check for this as soon as possible. Thank you all for your valuable help so far! I am confident of getting it running now. :-) Ciao, HippiE
