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

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 09:17 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: 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?