You set it high enough so your sample is loud but does not clip. You can use the dac to adc loopback feature of the ac97 codec which an sblive has, but I don't know how to do that with newer alsa or oss. I just do it by trial and error. Regards, Kerry. On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 02:59:17PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Thanks. One more question that came to me is what's the best way to set the volume on the card line in jack, and on the tape player, so that the sound quality is just right. The reason I'm asking this is because my choice seems to be only to wire the line in of the card to the headphone jack of the tape player. > Greg > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:53:14PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > Yes you can do channel fiddling I do this when I am copying 4-track tapes. > > You use the pick effect to split out a channel like this: > > sox stereo.wav -c1 mono_left.wav pick -l -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au