20 May
2006
20 May
'06
7:55 p.m.
Lee Revell wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 17:07 +0000, c wrote:
We understand that all too well, from doing that particular balanceing
act with the older SBLive cards, which could be run plumb out of digital
headroom without even trying.
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Cheers, Gene
On Sat May 20, 2006 at 09:27:56AM -0500, Gene
Heskett wrote:
Distortion if all volumes are set to 100% is not necessarily a bug.
It's just the way some hardware works.
Lee
often sounding as if the playback is of a file
that over-drove the d/a in playback, or the a/d in the recording, eg clipped.
...
the ATI-IXP audio stuffs loaded
the ATIIXP
in my MSI exhibits this same issue. essentially, if the 'PCM' level is set to
100%, things are horribly overdriven. the solution is to set the Master to 100%, and
adjust volume with PCM, instead of vice versa. i guess whether this is a hardware bug or a
driver bug depends on if PCM is the last point of software contact with the stream and
master trims the levels after that, or if PCM just does some multiplication on the bits
before passing them to the Master..