From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 6:23:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449F237B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F58E43EA9 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 0F01B4FC8A; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:06:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F544A0E; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:06:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:06:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: paul beard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyone tried this? In-Reply-To: <3E13D2D0.1080102@mac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, paul beard wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:49:04 -0800 > From: paul beard > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyone > tried this? > > I have been working on recording vinyl LPs to digital files but > have run into a problem. It turns out I misread the cryptic runes > on the back of the sound card and was actually recording through > the mic jack. It worked as far as I could tell -- I got sound -- > but I now have audio that sounds suspiciously like mono. > > So after tracking down the manual for the card (an SB Live! Gamer > or Platinum w/o the Live drive), I am now using the line in and > running the audio through an stereo receiver. But now nothing > registers on the level indicators in gramofile. > > According to Creative's open source site, audio in and out is > supported, but there's "supported" and "proven to work." Anyone > have any experience with this or troubleshooting ideas I should be > aware of? > > -- > Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work > > 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 > I do a *lot* of recording with my SBLive! card and FreeBSD. It's all guitar and drum machine through a 4-track, plugged into my sound card. The trick with the line-in (at least on my rig) was that the input volume on that channel was zero by default. I use the 4-track to do a little pre-mix before recording. I found that if I pull up an audio mixer (kmix, since I use KDE) I can bring the level up on line-in just fine. However, I have found that for certain tracks the mic input is better, although I have to bring the input gain down with kmix. Also, if you need to 'clean up' your recordings to get the 'eggs-frying' noise out of the mix (all my vinyl has it :), Audacity has great noise filters and it's in the ports collection. HTH - JB PS: If you want to carry on this discussion and feel it too off-topic, feel free to contact me off-list. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message