On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:02 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I've been playing with it quite a lot but it's pretty elusive, can > somebody shed som light on how to record using sb live platinum > liveDrive (front panel). I can get it to record but the levels are very > low (vu meter goes to about 25%), even when I put the slider to max. I > have the same problem with mic and phono pre-amp. > > at one point I was able to make it record with 'normal' loudness so I > guess it's possible but I wasn't able to figure out how I did it that > one time :-( > > I was using alsmixer to set the recording levels and sources (was > playing with both capture and playback controls) > > Not sure if it matter but when I set playback for liveDrive line2 the > output goes to speakers with 'normal' loudness (i.e. a lot louder than > what is being recorded). > > this is on debian unstable using alsa in kernel 2.6.11, > /proc/asound/version says Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver > Version 1.0.8 (Thu Jan 13 09:39:32 2005 UTC). Try a new ALSA, lots of bugs have been fixed since 1.0.8. Lee
