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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:33 PM, <v_2e@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:32:43 -0300 |
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> Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Damn! |
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>> |
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>> I've been all morning struggling with this. |
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>> I have an analog microphone wired to my hda intel onboard sound card. |
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>> Also, I have a genius webcam (gspca_pac7302) with a builtin mic. |
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>> I tried arecord but couldn't capture anything from any of it, so I |
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>> guess I'm doing something wrong. But what? |
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>> ... |
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> My personal experience shows me that most of the time all the |
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> "silence in mic" is because of the muted (or very too quiet) or wrong |
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> selected recording device. |
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> I prefer to check this in 'alsamixer'. If you have several |
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> microphones on your PC, there should be a possibility to choose the |
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> device to record the sound from (on my system there are 'Line', |
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> 'Internal Mic' and 'Mic' options). |
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> If you choose a correct device, then check if it is not muted as well |
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> (a symbol 'M' in Alsamixer means 'muted'). |
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> If the device you need is un-muted, then raise the volume level (or |
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> maybe 'Mic Boost' as well). |
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This was exactly the case. Some alsamixer tweaking was needed. |
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Strangely, I needed to change "Channel mode" from "6 ch" to "2 ch" for |
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my intel-hda soundcard. |
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I still can't get the webcam mic to work.... :-( |
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Thanks a lot! |
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