Re: Sound recording problems
On Saturday 02 April 2005 05:52 pm, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> writes:
> > On Saturday 02 April 2005 12:55 pm, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > > Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> writes:
> > > > The book will be a big help, but for now I'm just trying to figure
> > > > out why I can hear sound, play back sound, but can't record sound
> > > > from my Soundblaster's line in jack. Everything is in place and
> > > > looks right, but it won't record.
> > >
> > > Have you checked your mixer settings to make sure that the line-in is
> > > enabled for record? If you look as the settings with aumix, then it
> > > must show an "R" and not "P", and of course you must have the proper
> > > volume set. I use brec from the bplay package, but audacity also
> > > works, but in either case you *MUST* first set the proper input for
> > > the mixer.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I checked, with aumix, and it's set to record. When you say the proper
> > volume, do you mean the right volume must be turned up, or that the Line
> > volume must be at a certain level?
>
> I just meant that the volume can't be at 0 (I use about 80%). It
> sounds like it should be working, since I often record from the
> line-in on my soundblaster card. I have a slow computer, so I don't
> use a pipe, but instead use brec to create a .wav file and then use
> oggenc on that file.
Okay. I just wanted to be sure you weren't referencing some other volume
adjustment somewhere I didn't know about.
Right now I'm using Audacity, since all I have to do is click on Record, and
it'll show me a graph of the input, so I get fast feedback on whether there's
anything there or not. I'll look at brec once I'm sure it is working, since
I'm not using it for a lot of recording, usually just the one show a week,
but sometimes a few other shows from time to time, so if recording first,
then encoding it lightens the CPU load, that might help.
It just puzzles me why this won't record. I can hear the radio and files I
play on the output, I can control it with the mixer (aumix or KMix, and I
know KMix is OSS), including turning an input or output on or off, I can't
see why it won't record. Does it make a difference if I'm using OSS or ALSA?
Hal
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> Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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