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

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

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.