[gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear

[gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear

[Alexander Kapshuk]

Howdy,

I'm having trouble configuring my sound card so as to be able to record
voice as well as talk on Skype.

Whenever I try recording my voice using arecord, or do a Skype test
call, the audio output I get is static and squeaky.

I went through the instructions described here,
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA, and set things up where applicable as
best as I could tell.

Here's the details of my current setup:
Sound card:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a002
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

ALSA packages installed:
media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2
media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.27-r1
media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2

cat .asoundrc
defaults.pcm.!card Intel
defaults.pcm.!device 0

What else am I missing here?

Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear

[Mick]

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On Sunday 20 Jul 2014 16:42:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm having trouble configuring my sound card so as to be able to record
> voice as well as talk on Skype.
> 
> Whenever I try recording my voice using arecord, or do a Skype test
> call, the audio output I get is static and squeaky.
> 
> I went through the instructions described here,
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA, and set things up where applicable as
> best as I could tell.
> 
> Here's the details of my current setup:
> Sound card:
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 02)
>     Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a002
>     Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
> 
> ALSA packages installed:
> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2
> media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.27-r1
> media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36
> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2
> 
> cat .asoundrc
> defaults.pcm.!card Intel
> defaults.pcm.!device 0
> 
> What else am I missing here?

I don't have an .asoundrc file in my ~ for years now (I thought that it was 
deprecated for typical desktop use?).

When I bought my last laptop I found that it had analogue and digital capture 
and I got good results after I switched off the analogue capture altogether.  
Also, I had to lower the volume of the digital capture to get best results.  I 
did all this with alsamixer.

The world is moving to pulseaudio and perhaps you want to give it a spin.  It 
may offer a better interface for managing your audio - although in my case it 
doesn't because I don't use Gnome and don't want to install half of it just to 
manage my sound.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On 07/20/2014 07:33 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 20 Jul 2014 16:42:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm having trouble configuring my sound card so as to be able to record
>> voice as well as talk on Skype.
>>
>> Whenever I try recording my voice using arecord, or do a Skype test
>> call, the audio output I get is static and squeaky.
>>
>> I went through the instructions described here,
>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA, and set things up where applicable as
>> best as I could tell.
>>
>> Here's the details of my current setup:
>> Sound card:
>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
>> Controller (rev 02)
>>     Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a002
>>     Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
>>
>> ALSA packages installed:
>> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2
>> media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.27-r1
>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36
>> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2
>>
>> cat .asoundrc
>> defaults.pcm.!card Intel
>> defaults.pcm.!device 0
>>
>> What else am I missing here?
> I don't have an .asoundrc file in my ~ for years now (I thought that it was 
> deprecated for typical desktop use?).
>
> When I bought my last laptop I found that it had analogue and digital capture 
> and I got good results after I switched off the analogue capture altogether.  
> Also, I had to lower the volume of the digital capture to get best results.  I 
> did all this with alsamixer.
>
> The world is moving to pulseaudio and perhaps you want to give it a spin.  It 
> may offer a better interface for managing your audio - although in my case it 
> doesn't because I don't use Gnome and don't want to install half of it just to 
> manage my sound.
>
> HTH.
Thanks. I might look into the pulseaudio side of things.