[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-Studio-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: line-in stays clean, mic signal processed (raydar) > 2. Re: Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate (Dave Ricketzz) > 3. Re: line-in stays clean, mic signal processed > (D. Michael McIntyre) > 4. Re: Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate (D. Michael McIntyre) > 5. Re: Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate (Jack Bowling) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:21:05 -0600 > From: raydar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: line-in stays clean, mic signal processed > To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, raydar wrote: > > >>>> This seems tantalizingly close to sounding like an audio port >>>> configuration change of some kind, but I'm just clueless enough not to >>>> know precisely where to prod in Linux. Does this sound like a symptom >>>> anyone else has had? >>>> >> >> > > >> Sounds like some trouble I used to have with the emu10k1. >> > > >> I'm not looking at a setup with the same hardware as yours, but this might >> work. Try running QAmix, and play with the combo box on the Capture tab. I >> bet it's sitting at "Mic" and you want to change it to "Line." >> > > > Aha, thanks--I do think I've found a solid limb on the troubleshooting tree . > . . I had fired up QAMix before, just looking for levels to adjust or mutes > to unmute, but now that you said "combo box" and I just have a big blank > space where apparently it should be, I'm thinking something's definitely odd. > I.e., if my QAMix "Capture" tab is supposed to look anything like it does > here http://www.suse.de/~mana/kalsatools.html then I need to reinstall QAMix > or reconfigure whatever QAMix looks to in order to populate the "Capture" tab > with appropriate controls, 'cause all I have are (1) 2 vertical sliders with > green fields for numbers above them, (2) 2 "Lock" checkboxes, with the labels > "Capture" and "Active," and (3) 2 checkboxes without any label, roughly > centered under the vertical sliders. (All those checkboxes are checked, & > sliders are at 50%.) To the right of that, the "Capture" tab is just blank, > as opposed to having the 3 combo boxes I see in the link above. QAMix is show > ing version 0.0.7 and "HDA-Intel" at the top, and under the "Soundcard" menu > item it shows "HDA-Intel (hw:0)." (But I just can't have an outdated > version; this is a fresh install. :] ) > > So, I'm reckoning you're right on as to the setting that needs to be changed; > any thoughts on where to go from here, to make it present itself for > alteration? > > --Ray > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:48:16 -0800 (PST) > From: Dave Ricketzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate > To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion > <ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > In that case I'd use a non-clipping peak limiter just in case. The land > beyond digital zero is an ugly place. > > "Rafael F. Compte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The dynamic range should match > the end-user listening environment. Pop music is mixed for MP-3 players, > good jazz is not. > In my profession as a classical guitar player I've never really cared about > compression, because, as I see it, it is better left off ! I want to handle > dynamic range myself ! > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/attachments/20080221/9b14e1a9/attachment-0001.htm > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:51:44 -0500 > From: "D. Michael McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: line-in stays clean, mic signal processed > To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion > <ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Thursday 21 February 2008, raydar wrote: > >> "HDA-Intel (hw:0)." (But I just can't have an outdated version; this is a >> fresh install. :] ) >> > > Everybody has an outdated version. The upstream source hasn't been touched > since 2003. That's most likely the root of your trouble. You probably need > to create an .xml file for it that describes the specifics of your sound > chip. > > I'm afraid I have no idea how to do that. I've never fooled around with > the .xml files with this thing. Since QAMix is STILL the only Linux mixer > client on the planet that presents controls I can figure out how to use to > control the AC97 capture, it's probably worth someone blowing the dust off > this relic, and updating it to accommodate modern soundcards. > > Actually, I intended to do that years ago, but it hasn't happened in five > years or so, and it's not likely to happen now either. Sorry. > Well, you gave me the clue I needed, so more thanks, Michael: I found a PCI sound card (dare I admit among 3 ISA ones I haven't pitched yet, incl. an SBGold? :] ) and stuck it in the motherboard and voila, two combo boxes which, when I changed 'em to "line" instead of "mic" in QAMix, had my line-in guitar signal being processed just fine by Creox--presumably that'll go for Ardour and everything else too. :) <-- majorly-satisfied smile
I didn't change a thing in my Jack settings, yet I also noticed that I didn't get a single xrun when I started up Firefox (when only Jack, QAMix, and Creox had been running), where before, using the mobo's onboard sound, I'd get quite a few just as soon as I put that load on the system. I bet my horrendously conservative, 64ms-latency Jack settings can come up a ways now too . . . which maybe will remedy the fact Creox doesn't follow me if I play notes faster than a certain rate (lotta hi-freq noise w/Creox's distortion, too, but I bet that's a different problem). XML file, huh? That sounds like something I could do; how hard is it to gather the data to put in it, and is there an example? Could be moot now if I keep using this sound card, but it's easily 5+ years old--that being likely why it worked, from what you wrote--although if I find the sound quality unacceptable and get a new card, it'd be good to know & maybe helpful to anyone else struggling with onboard sound or a too-new card, as you said. Thanks again! --Ray -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users