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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: C-Media CMI8738-LX noise in recording from line in
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:52:38 +0200
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Lars Schotte wrote:
> The soundcard has following chipset - C-Media CMI8738-LX.

This chip was designed before on-board sound devices were common, and
manages to have worse analog sound quality than many of those,
especially on its inputs.

> So I try to record from the line in input, ...
> its too silent and there is a lot of noise in it.

Even if your current mixer settings are suboptimal and can be improved
(please show the output of "amixer contents" or the alsa-info output),
be aware that this card never will have good quality.


Regards,
Clemens