[ALSA - driver 0000653]: poor microphone recording quality on pcicmi

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A NOTE has been added to this issue.
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<https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=653> 
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Reported By:                pbienst
Assigned To:                tiwai
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Project:                    ALSA - driver
Issue ID:                   653
Category:                   PCI - cmipci
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Distribution:               Gentoo
Kernel Version:             2.6.9-gentoo-r4
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Date Submitted:             11-18-2004 10:58 CET
Last Modified:              06-27-2005 15:59 CEST
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Summary:                    poor microphone recording quality on pcicmi
Description: 
I have a C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 (rev 16) from a Hercules Muse DVD soundd
card.

When recording from a headset microphone, sound quality is really bad: low

volume and quite some noise / distortion.

I have my microphone mixers maxed out, 'Mic boost' is on, 'Mic as
Center/LFE' 
is off.

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

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.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0001192 Microphone doesn't work in record and/o...
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 tiwai - 11-18-04 20:22 
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When you can't change the values via amixer properly, they are read-only 
values.  Changing the driver won't help then.  You can forget the patch.

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 tiwai - 06-27-05 15:59 
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Try the patch in https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1192.

Issue History
Date Modified  Username       Field                    Change              
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11-18-04 10:58 pbienst        New Issue                                    
11-18-04 10:58 pbienst        Distribution              => Gentoo          
11-18-04 10:58 pbienst        Kernel Version            => 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 
11-18-04 18:07 tiwai          Note Added: 0002453                          
11-18-04 18:08 tiwai          File Added: cmipci-test.diff                    
11-18-04 19:11 pbienst        Note Added: 0002459                          
11-18-04 19:26 pbienst        Note Added: 0002460                          
11-18-04 19:33 tiwai          Note Added: 0002461                          
11-18-04 19:36 pbienst        Note Added: 0002462                          
11-18-04 19:54 tiwai          Note Added: 0002467                          
11-18-04 20:01 pbienst        Note Added: 0002468                          
11-18-04 20:22 tiwai          Note Added: 0002469                          
06-27-05 15:58 tiwai          Relationship added       related to 0001192  
06-27-05 15:59 tiwai          Note Added: 0005273                          
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