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Date:      Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:32:58 -0600
From:      "Dan Kelley" <ariesgeek@gmail.com>
To:        "Stuart Barkley" <stuartb@4gh.net>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Not capturing sound
Message-ID:  <e020617b0802031232w36c8eea7nf5888f00fdebed6d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080203150722.F2411@freeman.4gh.net>
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Thank you my friend, that was it.  Check the results.:

[aries@studio01 ~]$ mixer rec mic rec 100
Setting the mixer rec from 0:0 to 0:0.
Setting the mixer rec from 0:0 to 100:100.

Fired up Audacity and boom I'm recording.  This should be in a FAQ
somewhere.

I appreciate your help.

On Feb 3, 2008 2:15 PM, Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 at 13:31 -0600, Dan Kelley wrote:
>
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> Often the record level is set by the record control.  Try:
>
>    mixer =rec mic rec 100
>
> Give us the output from the "mixer" command (without any arguments),
> "dmesg | grep pcm" and the contents of /dev/sndstat.
>
> Some sound devices also have a 20db pad on the mic input which may
> need to be disabled.  Depending upon the specific sound driver there
> may be a mixer control which changes this.
>
> Stuart
> http://www.4gh.net/tudor/resume.html
> --
> I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never
> lost!
>                                        --  Daniel Boone
>



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