The best thing to do to check for gain staging errors is: 1. Lower all values on mixer to null/0/nada 2. start playing mp3 3. take master volume to @ 80% 4 start raising each slider individually if it has no effect turn it down if it adds noise turn it down if it makes music decide where you want it. PCM levels can make your computer sound great! full, more bottom end etc. and will cause needless distortion if set too high. (in some cases) Repeat these these steps for mp3/wav, midi timiditity/kmidi and midi kmid. CD etc. When all the setting are as you want them. Save the settings and alsa will remember them on every start. -- Gary Counsellor http://www.musician2000.com sineigs.all.attitudes@eskimo.com Please remove .all.attitudes before replying

On Friday 24 May 2002 16:58, SuSEnixER wrote:

* Gary Counsellor [05-22-02 15:21]:

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The best thing to do to check for gain staging errors is: 1. Lower all values on mixer to null/0/nada

done

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2. start playing mp3

yes

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3. take master volume to @ 80%

ok, have distortion now. No need to go further.

NOTE: PCM @ 20%, no sound volume w/o this setting.

sorry to be so long (went fishing) 1. If distortion is present at main vol = 80 % reduce it-- does distortion disappear at say 60% or 40%? If distortion does not disappear--reduce pcm to 10% and see what happens you may have to raise main volume up to hear anything but there should be less distortion. If distortion does disappear, you may lower pcm to say 10% which will give you more room to play with volume min to max without distortion one other note: may sets of speakers have external hardware amps (duh!) and external hardware volume controls. Make sure these are turned at max @ 30% others wise, these alone will overdrive or over-power speakers and cause distortion. did you update to alsa 9.xx http://alsa-project.org ?

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4 start raising each slider individually if it has no effect turn it down if it adds noise turn it down if it makes music decide where you want it.

PCM levels can make your computer sound great! full, more bottom end

etc. and

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will cause needless distortion if set too high. (in some cases)

Repeat these these steps for mp3/wav, midi timiditity/kmidi and midi

kmid. CD

...

etc. When all the setting are as you want them. Save the settings

and alsa

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will remember them on every start.

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-- Gary Counsellor http://www.musician2000.com sineigs.all.attitudes@eskimo.com Please remove .all.attitudes before replying