[LAU] General Audio question - soft recording and bad SNR?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 09:17 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> Increasing the UA-25EX's gain just causes peaking at louder volumes

> Jack settings?

Dynamic microphones do cause noise, nevertheless the maximum volume
shouldn't be low. I guess the hardware mixer isn't set up correctly.
Since I don't know the card I searched the web and found this:

"Using mixer settings on card 0 will return:

$ alsamixer -c 0
no mixer elems found
Unfortunately these is no software control over the hardware mixers on
the device (like in any USB device), nothing will show up in mixer
programs. Fortunately, Alsa offers the softvol plugin to create a
software volume control. We will also define this control as the default
mixer." - http://alsa.opensrc.org/Edirol_UA-25EX

What ever mixer you're using before the signal gets into Audacity or
Ardour, are the mixer settings ok?