Re: [linux-audio-user] Mic recording issues

From: Wolfgang Woehl <tito@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 30 2005 - 07:30:22 EET

Hans Fugal <fugalh@email-addr-hidden>:
> I was trying to do some basic mic recording last night, and I was
> having strange problems. My sound card is a turtle beach santa cruz
> using the snd-cs46xx module.
>
> Audacity had no trouble recording - sounded fine. Timemachine on the
> other hand experienced horrible hissing. I tried every conceivable
> mixer level/muting/gain combination I could think of and always got
> the awful hiss.

Just a hunch: Timemachine's default recording format is
WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT. Try "timemachine -f wav" instead
(WAVE_FORMAT_PCM). Maybe your trouble is playback rather than
recording?

Wolfgang
Received on Sun Jan 30 08:15:08 2005

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