> Since I am getting some sort of input, I'm fairly sure that > I haven't muted any of the pertinent channels, but so far I > haven't been able to increase the input to acceptable > levels. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I once tried to record audio using a mic, and the simplest to use mixer tool was qamix (c) by M. Nagorny (thanks to him :-) . Perhaps you'd like to try it out: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mana Best regards ce