I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can somebody help me? Adalberto
Adalberto Castelo wrote:
I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can somebody help me?
Adalberto
Hi, go in to kmix, gmix, gamix and you'll see a button under the mic volume setting that needs to be turned on. If you're using kmix it's red, and gamix is a rectangular botton (can't remember in gmix - don't use it). Anyway see if that works. If not repost. HTH, Curtis.
If he is getting signal at all it sounds like the mic is turned on. The faint sound could be feedthru with the mic plugged in the wrong input, right? Or maybe he needs to try recording from the mike without the monitor on. Some circuits are designed to reduce feedback so he might have a compression feature kicking in harder as he cranks the mic input up. Just free thinking here on the $0.02 level so take all this with a grain of salt! ;-) Dow Curtis Rey wrote:
Adalberto Castelo wrote:
I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can somebody help me?
Adalberto
Hi, go in to kmix, gmix, gamix and you'll see a button under the mic volume setting that needs to be turned on. If you're using kmix it's red, and gamix is a rectangular botton (can't remember in gmix - don't use it). Anyway see if that works. If not repost.
HTH, Curtis.
On Monday 06 January 2003 00:42, Dow Hurst wrote:
If he is getting signal at all it sounds like the mic is turned on. The faint sound could be feedthru with the mic plugged in the wrong input,
No, it's in the correct input (mic).
right? Or maybe he needs to try recording from the mike without the monitor on. Some circuits are designed to reduce feedback so he might
Didn't think about that. Tried recording stuff with the mic muted. Same problem. Low volume of the recording. No noticeable change in the volume by muting the mic.
have a compression feature kicking in harder as he cranks the mic input up. Just free thinking here on the $0.02 level so take all this with a grain of salt! ;-) Dow
Hey, thanks for thinking about it at all :) Adalberto
Curtis Rey wrote:
Adalberto Castelo wrote:
I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can somebody help me?
Adalberto
Hi, go in to kmix, gmix, gamix and you'll see a button under the mic volume setting that needs to be turned on. If you're using kmix it's red, and gamix is a rectangular botton (can't remember in gmix - don't use it). Anyway see if that works. If not repost.
HTH, Curtis.
Hi,
I'm using a SoundBlaster Live 5.1, but also seemed to have trouble
controlling the gain through the std. GUI mixers. I found that by opening a
terminal window and calling the command "alsamixer" (assuming, of course
that you are using ALSA and not OSS), I was able to control the gain more
effectively and produce the volumes which I wanted. Perhaps this may solve
your problem.
Best regards,
Gary
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From: "Adalberto Castelo"
On Monday 06 January 2003 00:42, Dow Hurst wrote:
If he is getting signal at all it sounds like the mic is turned on. The faint sound could be feedthru with the mic plugged in the wrong input,
No, it's in the correct input (mic).
right? Or maybe he needs to try recording from the mike without the monitor on. Some circuits are designed to reduce feedback so he might
Didn't think about that. Tried recording stuff with the mic muted. Same problem. Low volume of the recording. No noticeable change in the volume by muting the mic.
have a compression feature kicking in harder as he cranks the mic input up. Just free thinking here on the $0.02 level so take all this with a grain of salt! ;-) Dow
Hey, thanks for thinking about it at all :)
Adalberto
Curtis Rey wrote:
Adalberto Castelo wrote:
I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can somebody help me?
Adalberto
Hi, go in to kmix, gmix, gamix and you'll see a button under the mic volume setting that needs to be turned on. If you're using kmix it's red, and gamix is a rectangular botton (can't remember in gmix - don't use it). Anyway see if that works. If not repost.
HTH, Curtis.
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Dow Hurst wrote:
If he is getting signal at all it sounds like the mic is turned on. The faint sound could be feedthru with the mic plugged in the wrong input, right? Or maybe he needs to try recording from the mike without the monitor on. Some circuits are designed to reduce feedback so he might have a compression feature kicking in harder as he cranks the mic input up. Just free thinking here on the $0.02 level so take all this with a grain of salt! ;-) Dow
True. If the mic is gated (to filter noise/feedback) it might have a sensitivety threshold. In that case there might be a situation where the mic sounds very low and then a slight adjustment will make it very loud. Or if it's working/designed well there will be a point where there mic will sound correct and not pick noise like sounds from the room or breathing, etc... On a down note, it could need software input in order to manage the mic sound - stuff that is intrinsic to.... M$. If this is the case then it may not work properly. Just a thought, Curtis.
Yeah, the capture or record button was the first thing I looked at. Nevertheless, when trying gamix (which I had never heard of before), I noticed it actually has a "boost" button on the mic panel. Too bad it doesn't seem to do much. The weird thing is, the sound of the mic on the speaker gets louder with the boost checkbox on, but the sound of the recording on krecord sound _less_ loud with the boost _on_ then with the boost off. Strange. In any case, both with boost on or off, I still have to talk with the mic really close to my face. I tried two mics from diff brands, the same problem. Googling around, I found some posts of similar problems, and a conclusion that this could be related to the kinds of mic (electret mics, it seems). Apparently, some drivers have an option "micbias" just to deal with that. That doesn't seem to work with the cmedia, though (module snd-cmipci). Thanks for your message, but I still need some help. Adalberto On Monday 06 January 2003 00:03, Curtis Rey wrote:
Adalberto Castelo wrote:
I have a cmedia pci on-board sound card on my amd mobo. I'm using suse 8.1. My microphone produces very little sound, is hard to hear your voice at all. And I can't find a way of increasing the gain. No gain options on yast hw sound setup, or kmix, or smix or gnome colume control. Can somebody help me?
Adalberto
Hi, go in to kmix, gmix, gamix and you'll see a button under the mic volume setting that needs to be turned on. If you're using kmix it's red, and gamix is a rectangular botton (can't remember in gmix - don't use it). Anyway see if that works. If not repost.
HTH, Curtis.
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