Re: [Alsa-user] How to investigate the problem with MIC

[Mark G. <gol...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Bill Unruh <un...@ph...> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Mark Goldstein wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Mark Goldstein
>> <gol...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Axel Braun <axe...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Mark Goldstein wrote:
>>>>
>> was able to record the audio from Mic using audacity! After some more
>> playing I found out that when I select "mute" for Capture1" it is
>> actually unmuted and vise-versa. somehow Capture1 control is broken.
>> Still I have very distorted Mic audio in Skype (and it also worked
>> fine before). But it is a bit of progress!
>
> skype by default has automatic volume control So it may be that there is a
> very weak signal coming in and skype is amplifying the hell our of it,
> giving
> a lot of noise (and distortion).
> Make sure that the automatic volume control in skype is switched OFF. It is
> pretty useless at the best of times.
>

If you mean this "allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels"
check-box, then yes, I know about it. I always disable it.

Regards,
-- 
Mark Goldstein