Aleisha's computer has a SoundBlaster Audigy and a fresh install of Kubuntu 5.10. When i load Audacity or any other sound recording program, no input sources are available. Where you'd expect to see "Microphone", "Line In", etc, the list is empty. If i turn up the volume on the microphone in alsamixer, i can hear it through the speakers. arecord claims to be recording, but the resulting .wav file is silent. Audio playback is fine with every program i've tried. Also on my computer with an nForce2 chipset, i can record via line in, but not microphone. This might be due to me plugging in a mono microphone plug into it and shorting something out. (Computer microphones seem to use a stero plug to provide power to the microphone.) Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Jon
On 12/5/05, Jonathan Purvis <jon(a)purvis.co.nz> wrote:
Aleisha's computer has a SoundBlaster Audigy and a fresh install of Kubuntu 5.10. When i load Audacity or any other sound recording program, no input sources are available. Where you'd expect to see "Microphone", "Line In", etc, the list is empty. If i turn up the volume on the microphone in alsamixer, i can hear it through the speakers. arecord claims to be recording, but the resulting .wav file is silent. Audio playback is fine with every program i've tried.
Hi, are you able to record using the regular Sound Recorder? I haven't used Kubuntu, but in Ubuntu we have an application call "Sound Recorder". What I've noticed often is that you can't hear your voice using a mike unless you record it using a recorder like the one mentioned above. Do try it and report back. Cheers, Sukrit.D.
Sukrit D wrote:
On 12/5/05, Jonathan Purvis <jon(a)purvis.co.nz> wrote:
Aleisha's computer has a SoundBlaster Audigy and a fresh install of Kubuntu 5.10. When i load Audacity or any other sound recording program, no input sources are available. Where you'd expect to see "Microphone", "Line In", etc, the list is empty. If i turn up the volume on the microphone in alsamixer, i can hear it through the speakers. arecord claims to be recording, but the resulting .wav file is silent. Audio playback is fine with every program i've tried.
Hi, are you able to record using the regular Sound Recorder? I haven't used Kubuntu, but in Ubuntu we have an application call "Sound Recorder". What I've noticed often is that you can't hear your voice using a mike unless you record it using a recorder like the one mentioned above. Do try it and report back.
Being the KDE version of Ubuntu, Kubuntu does have Sound Recorder in the gnome-common package. But that would mean i'd have to instal Gnome, which i don't want to do. After a bit of experimenting, i managed to solve my problem. It turns out that the Audigy doesn't have switchable input sources. I just turn up the volume on the input i want (in this case Microphone and Analog Mix) and record. It's still a bit quiet, even with the 20dB boost option on, but after noise removal and normalising its ok.
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