On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:15:04AM -0400, Hector Centeno wrote: > well... tested in Windows and the level is as high as in Linux. There is no > Edirol control panel or software mixer to lower the levels in the interface. > I guess I'll have to get a mixer. A pair of XLR in-line attenuators will be much cheaper ! But I'm convinced that all this is a non-problem if looked at in the right way. Consider this: When using active speakers connected directly to the sound card, you want to adjust the individual speaker gains once and then forget about them - they are not meant as a 'volume control'. In that case you adjust the gains of the monitors in such a way that a full scale signal from the soundcard produces the _maximum_ _peak_ volume that you will ever require. This will be much higher than the normal listening level, typically 30 dB or so higher. In such a system you don't have a master volume control in hardware, so you need to provide one in software. All applications then should connect to the app providing this master volume control instead of to the soundcard directly. In other words, you don't try to use the full range of the sound card all the time. If it's 24-bit and good quality there's nothing wrong with that. Imagine that your speakers would have a digital input. That would create exactly the same situation - the average digital level you would send to them would be quite low. In this case, consider the software side of your soundcard to be the digital input of your speakers. Then it becomes entirely logical to put the volume control before the soundcard, i.e. in software. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
