Re: how to increase gain in microphone channel?

Yeah, the capture or record button was the first thing I looked at. 
Nevertheless, when trying gamix (which I had never heard of before), I 
noticed it actually has a "boost" button on the mic panel. Too bad it doesn't 
seem to do much. The weird thing is, the sound of the mic on the speaker gets 
louder with the boost checkbox on, but the sound of the recording on krecord 
sound _less_ loud with the boost _on_ then with the boost off. Strange. In 
any case, both with boost on or off, I still have to talk with the mic really 
close to my face. I tried two mics from diff brands, the same problem. 
Googling around, I found some posts of similar problems, and a conclusion 
that this could be related to the kinds of mic (electret mics, it seems). 
Apparently, some drivers have an option "micbias" just to deal with that. 
That doesn't seem to work with the cmedia, though (module snd-cmipci).

Thanks for your message, but I still need some help.

Adalberto

On Monday 06 January 2003 00:03, Curtis Rey wrote:
> Adalberto Castelo wrote:
> >I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse
> > 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice
> > at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on
> > yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can
> > somebody help me?
> >
> >Adalberto
>
> Hi, go in to kmix, gmix, gamix and you'll see a button under the mic
> volume setting that needs to be turned on. If you're using kmix it's
> red, and gamix is a rectangular botton (can't remember in gmix - don't
> use it). Anyway see if that works. If not repost.
>
> HTH, Curtis.