Re: [Alsa-user] static when recording from microphone

2011-07-13 Thread Sergei Steshenko
14 июля 2011, 01:32 от Bill Unruh : > > > > 14 июля 2011, 01:32 от Bill Unruh : > > Hmm, both the static and the "hum" look very strange. > > The static would look like dropouts except they do not go to 0, but almost > > seem as though they are sampling some other waveform. The "hum" has hal

Re: [Alsa-user] static when recording from microphone

2011-07-13 Thread Bill Unruh
Hmm, both the static and the "hum" look very strange. The static would look like dropouts except they do not go to 0, but almost seem as though they are sampling some other waveform. The "hum" has half that looks like a nice sine wave and half that looks like a decapitated sine wive -- with a rust

Re: [Alsa-user] static when recording from microphone

2011-07-13 Thread Brian Pike
The "static" is continuous additional noise, which I would describe as a low hum with an additional bouncing crackle. But I've posted a 300 kilobyte .wav file that I recorded in a quiet room: http://www.unc.edu/~bapike/alsa/hum.wav and spectra here (using two different horizontal scales):

Re: [Alsa-user] static when recording from microphone

2011-07-13 Thread Bill Unruh
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Brian Pike wrote: > Hi, > I've got a Compaq Presario 12XL505 laptop with a VT82C686 sound chip. > Playing sound works fine. However, when I record sound using an external > microphone, there is static recorded along with the sound. The microphone > and microphone jack seem to

[Alsa-user] static when recording from microphone

2011-07-13 Thread Brian Pike
Hi, I've got a Compaq Presario 12XL505 laptop with a VT82C686 sound chip. Playing sound works fine. However, when I record sound using an external microphone, there is static recorded along with the sound. The microphone and microphone jack seem to be working fine, since there is no static when

Re: [Alsa-user] help with Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 USB

2011-07-13 Thread Daniel Mack
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Nicolai Krakowiak wrote: > If I apply the trivial hacky workaround (attached), I can play sound > out the device again.  Here's the initialization output with the > bControlSize hack applied. Even though the root cause for your problem here is somewhere else, we

Re: [Alsa-user] help with Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 USB

2011-07-13 Thread Daniel Mack
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Nicolai Krakowiak wrote: > There seems to be an issue in continuing along in mixer.c.  I > sprinkled printfs as I'm bad at parsing the kernel trace.  It looks > like the following occurs: > > parse_audio_unit() with a subtype == UAC_FEATURE_UNIT > parse_audio_feat

Re: [Alsa-user] help with Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 USB

2011-07-13 Thread Nicolai Krakowiak
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Nicolai Krakowiak > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: >> I got as far as sound/usb/card.c:514 calling snd_usb_create_mixer(). >> It looks like it is hitting the default clause in c