Mary, this might be overly simplistic, but I had what sounds like a similar problem after upping the capture levels in alsamixer. It sounded like I was making my test voice recordings while standing outside in a high wind.
The resolution was simply moving the mic half an arm's length away from my mouth. With Feisty, I had to press my microphone into my mouth in order to get people to hear me at all on Skype, and I was still doing this. Holding the mic 8 inches from my mouth results in exceptional recording quality. Hope this helps. -- Capture quality problematic on Dell Latitude D630 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153119 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs