From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9F613877A for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DDA6E0AB0; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B1B7E0AA3 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id k14so5597462wgh.32 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:43:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=930dr2h7RptscoDBXveYuNH8BFkzuZovJNKhY6A2ZUY=; b=XHVuaRhmtNUFHan9xVDn6TYQWcEsCM/2LlXp9i9czp3WwPsLJkf6vzNR/bAslv8X1a Mwb3dEpwYcf7w34mjOywB45wEkXGYRkJvwCXGW/ScAX8Hfd1iuwA7BUO52+whwsu7812 FyP3AcytNBDXce+ml4n5/foGkZSmOJtJW1CwWXbbJRjYfTtfH2ElhVmJi9VVpoDWS8Nn MczuCnhZUkHuVWNfRdDIbvok5MAhY+IjvIU5DVChI4+OOkH1mEu6smNz6o1mkSKLOUNJ KKGcoLTrusK3GWpB/mqaduwtjd0fznz1khoIuN4HLzSLdInqF2uV117hPJDQyveY6CBg Sb3A== X-Received: by 10.180.86.225 with SMTP id s1mr25770973wiz.36.1405878180235; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (213-154-212-42.static.vega-ua.net. [213.154.212.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fh8sm3725558wic.13.2014.07.20.10.42.59 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53CC0086.7050100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:46:46 +0300 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear References: <53CBE357.6000203@gmail.com> <201407201733.41223.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201407201733.41223.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4fb0aa14-d7a3-4738-8c07-21b8130a7459 X-Archives-Hash: 082f7440fd8e6b2060f159d9930bd2e3 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.