Re: how to increase gain in microphone channel?

Hi,
I'm using a SoundBlaster Live 5.1, but also seemed to have trouble
controlling the gain through the std. GUI mixers. I found that by opening a
terminal window and calling the command "alsamixer" (assuming, of course
that you are using ALSA and not OSS), I was able to control the gain more
effectively and produce the volumes which I wanted. Perhaps this may solve
your problem.
Best regards,
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adalberto Castelo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] 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.
>
>
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