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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Lars Schotte <lars.schotte@schotteweb.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: C-Media CMI8738-LX noise in recording from line in
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:52:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB46CE6.1000103@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401031825.557be2bc@romy.gusto>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-01  1:18 C-Media CMI8738-LX noise in recording from line in Lars Schotte
2010-04-01  3:31 ` Dan Chen
2010-04-01  9:52 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-04-01 11:00   ` Lars Schotte
2010-04-01 11:14     ` Daniel Mack
2010-04-01 11:24       ` Lars Schotte

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