I am trying to set up one of my systems to do high quality sound recording. With some earlier versions of Linux (Mandrake 7.1 on a P-233 laptop with OPL3 sound for example), this did not seem like a big problem, I was able to use grecord to grab audio, (even in 44.1KHz Stereo) and edit with snd or others. Now, I am having all kinds of problems. I have SuSE 7.3 Pro installed on a couple of boxes, one a K6-2 500 with C-Media onboard audio, and the other a Athlon 1.4 GHz with Ali onboard audio. Some of the symptoms I am getting include excessive input volume and distortion, pops and dropouts, (with bcast2000 or snd), screwed up time base (sound playing back double speed) with grecord. I have tried comand line recording with ecasound, but it won't configure the input stream properly. Some of the issues may be related to OSS vs ALSA sound configurations. Yast2 only wants to configure via ALSA, but sometimes that doesn't work. I am also left with the feeling that I should be using a better, well-supported sound card instead of the built-in one. Any suggestions as to an excellent (but not too expensive) sound card for audio recording? What about the low-latency kernel patch? Anyone successfully patched the SuSE 2.4.10 kernel with it? does it help? How can I figure out issues of audio input via ALSA or OSS? Any great success stories? Thanks for any help John