Mark Knecht wrote: ... >>>> I am trying to record from a receiver (not sure if that's the right >>>>name, it's the amp/tuner, the thingy that all other components like CD >>>>player, tape deck, video etc. connect to) and it seems like the levels >>>>are too low (the soundcard is soundblaster live platinum, using alsa >>>>drivers that come with kernel 2.6.5). ... > 1V amp PP output -> 1000 Ohm output <---cable----> 1000 Ohm input > > In the above pirture to voltage the input receiver sees is 50% of the > voltage actually driven. ... > This stuff comes up a lot when interfacing studio equipment. This, and > the levels provided as per the post from Andreas, are generall the > root cause of this sort of problem. that might be the case, I see the signal being at about 20-40%, compared to about 50-70% 'normal' signal (in vu-meter). the big Q remains - what do I do? (I didn't try the headphones output yet, but everybody says that headphones output on the consumer receivers is of poor quality (then again, I listened to it via headphones and it was good enough for me...)). erik
