On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:33 PM, <v...@ukr.net> wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:32:43 -0300 > Ezequiel Garcia <elezegar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Damn! >> >> I've been all morning struggling with this. >> I have an analog microphone wired to my hda intel onboard sound card. >> Also, I have a genius webcam (gspca_pac7302) with a builtin mic. >> >> I tried arecord but couldn't capture anything from any of it, so I >> guess I'm doing something wrong. But what? >> ... > My personal experience shows me that most of the time all the > "silence in mic" is because of the muted (or very too quiet) or wrong > selected recording device. > > I prefer to check this in 'alsamixer'. If you have several > microphones on your PC, there should be a possibility to choose the > device to record the sound from (on my system there are 'Line', > 'Internal Mic' and 'Mic' options). > > If you choose a correct device, then check if it is not muted as well > (a symbol 'M' in Alsamixer means 'muted'). > > If the device you need is un-muted, then raise the volume level (or > maybe 'Mic Boost' as well). >
This was exactly the case. Some alsamixer tweaking was needed. Strangely, I needed to change "Channel mode" from "6 ch" to "2 ch" for my intel-hda soundcard. I still can't get the webcam mic to work.... :-( Thanks a lot!
