[linux-audio-user] Mic recording issues

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Hans Fugal <fugalh at gmail.com>:
> I was trying to do some basic mic recording last night, and I was
> having strange problems. My sound card is a turtle beach santa cruz
> using the snd-cs46xx module.
>
> Audacity had no trouble recording - sounded fine. Timemachine on the
> other hand experienced horrible hissing. I tried every conceivable
> mixer level/muting/gain combination I could think of and always got
> the awful hiss.

Just a hunch: Timemachine's default recording format is 
WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT. Try "timemachine -f wav" instead 
(WAVE_FORMAT_PCM). Maybe your trouble is playback rather than 
recording?

Wolfgang