[LAU] Arecord clicks

Hi LAU, On my old crappy laptop I am getting a weird clicking when I use arecord, only in the right hand channel. If I am recording silence, there is no clicking, but if I turn something up in the right channel the clicking appears to match the volume of the thing I turn up. I am thinking this is maybe a bufferring problem, but I can't decipher how to use the buffer command line parameters. Should I be making buffers longer, or shorter? What are sensible values? What is the "avail-min" option (I read the man page, but this option still makes no sense to me) and will it help me? At the moment I'm using "arecord -f cd filename.wav" Sorry to be a n00b, but I really need to record this live set to my laptop. Best, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx