[Alsa-user] poor recording quality on pcicmi

[Peter B. <Pet...@ug...>]

Hi,

I have a C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 from a Hercules Muse DVD soubnd card.

When recording from a headset microphone, sound quality is really bad: low=
=20
volume and quite some noise / distortion.

I have my microphone mixers maxed out, 'Mic boost' is on, 'Mic as Center/LF=
E'=20
is off.

I've fiddled with all the other options, but they don't seem to affect the=
=20
quality.

I do my recording with:

arecord -D hw:1,0 -d 4 test.wav

Under Windows, sound quality is a lot better with the same setup.

Any ideas?

Peter