Anahata wrote: > By the way, it would help in debugging this (and probably be a usefult > tool anyway) to have a recording application that displays the input > signal on a meter of some sort. > > arecord doesn't show anything about the signal (unless I've missed > something) arecord displays the input signal with the -vv switch. If you don't want to actually record to a file, use something like: arecord -D hw:0,2 -f dat -vv /dev/null (or "-f cd" if the input is 44.1 kHz) HTH Clemens