Re: how to increase gain in microphone channel?

On Monday 06 January 2003 00:42, Dow Hurst wrote:
> If he is getting signal at all it sounds like the mic is turned on.  The
> faint sound could be feedthru with the mic plugged in the wrong input,

No, it's in the correct input (mic).

> right?  Or maybe he needs to try recording from the mike without the
> monitor on.  Some circuits are designed to reduce feedback so he might

Didn't think about that. Tried recording stuff with the mic muted. Same 
problem. Low volume of the recording. No noticeable change in the volume by 
muting the mic.

> have a compression feature kicking in harder as he cranks the mic input
> up.  Just free thinking here on the $0.02 level so take all this with a
> grain of salt! ;-)
> Dow
>

Hey, thanks for thinking about it at all :)

Adalberto

> 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.