Re:microphone

Re:microphone

[Daron Ryan]

Hello Conway,

I am using audacity to test the microphone. I will check the tab 
function on the alsa mixer, I haven't tried that. Thanks for that.

Regards,
Daron.
Conway S. Smith wrote:
 > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:54:32 +0930
 > Daron Ryan <daron.ryan@gmail.com> wrote:
 >  
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> I have recently purchased a microphone / headset but can not get the
 >> microphone to work. The system is dual boot and the microphone works
 >> under windows but not Linux. Here some of the details of the system
 >>
 >> Distribution:                                Fedora 64bit
 >> Audio card:                                 Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family)
 >> ALSA driver version:                 1.0.14.
 >>
 >> I have tried adjusting microphone up to maximum volume using
 >> alsamixer (I assume maximum volume means maximum sensitivity). This
 >> only causes a hiss when microphone input is played back out again
 >> with no sign of my voice. What else can I try?
 >>
 >> Regards,
 >> Daron.
 >>
 >>    
 >
 > What program are you using to test the microphone?  Several
 > applications still use the older OSS instead of the newer ALSA
 > interface, especially for microphones.  ALSA includes OSS
 > compatibility, but the mixer levels are somewhat separate.  Try using
 > an OSS mixer program, like rexima or aumix, as well as alsamixer, and
 > make sure that both the OSS & ALSA mixers are set to record from the
 > microphone & the capture level isn't 0.  Also note that in alsamixer
 > there are separate playback & capture levels for the microphone, as
 > indicated in the "View:" line towards the top: pressing tab should
 > cycle them.
 >
 > Good luck,
 > Conway S. Smith
 >  


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