[LAU] Record levels lower in Alsa than Jack

[John Murphy]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 11:17:30 +0100 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 10:38:39PM +0000, John Murphy wrote:
> 
> > > First advice: get rid of PA and its braindead controls. If you disable
> > > PA when using Jack, do the same when using arecord.  
> > 
> > Can't seem to do that, unfortunately.  
> 
> Something like
> 
>   pasuspender -- jackd ...
>   pasuspender -- arecord ...
> 
> should do it.
> 
> This temporarily suspends PA while the command after -- runs,
> There are also ways disable PA permanently.
> 
> But I'm not a PA expert, I just don't install it.
> 

Thank you again. I'll try that, but I've found that jack_capture has a
--recording-time Additional argument and says that it 'can connect to
any input or output jack port'. I saw it mentioned at

https://jackaudio.org/applications/

but the link didn't take me anywhere useful, so I looked elsewhere eventually.

https://github.com/kmatheussen/jack_capture

is a better source.

You'll understand I'd rather use jack if possible. :)

-- 
Thanks again,
John.