Re: [SoX-users] Changing the audio-input card...

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

You've already solved the hardest part of this: Finding the correct device
name. :-)

Just add a "-t alsa" right before the alsa device name in your command
below.   Since no file extension, SoX needs to be given a hint at what your
input is.

Chris

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:38 AM, <pj...@pj...> wrote:

> I'm really sorry, it's another question :-(
>
> I've just bought a Zoom G1u guitar-effects unit, which has jack
> in and out sockets, and a USB connector. Plugging this into
> my debian squeeze gives me an extra /dev/dsp4 and /dev/snd/pcmC4D0c
> and /dev/snd/pcmC4D0p so that looks fine.  Also lsusb can see it,
> and alsamixer can see it: F2 (System information) /proc/asound/pcm :
>  00-00: ALC888 Analog : ALC888 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
>  00-01: ALC888 Digital : ALC888 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
>  00-02: ALC888 Analog : ALC888 Analog : capture 1
>  04-00: USB Audio : USB Audio : playback 1 : capture 1     <=== that's it
>
> How do I set sox's input device to hw:4,0 without changing the
> default output-device ?
>
>  ~> AUDIODEV=hw:4,0 sox -r 44100 -c 2 -e s -d /tmp/gtr.wav
>
> records just fine :-) , but that's to a wav-file;
> I want to go straight through in real-time.
>
>  ~> sox -r 44100 -c 2 -e s hw:4,0 /tmp/gtr.wav
>  sox FAIL formats: can't open input file `hw:4,0': No such file or
> directory
>
> How do I set sox's input device to hw:4,0 without changing the
> default output-device ?
>
> Help gratefully received,  Regards,  Peter Billam
>
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