19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
8:25 a.m.
Hello,
I recently bought a Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB soundcard for my Dell
Latitude C640, running an up-to-date installation of Fedora Core 3
as well as Demudi 1.2.
I managed to get the soundcard to work with the software I care
about (e.g., jack, rezound, ogle, mplayer) by making it the default
soundcard for ALSA, hacking configuration files like .oglerc, and
experimenting with alsamixer.
There's one remaining problem, though. The input levels from the
microphone and line in are extremely low. I've sort of managed to
record from line in, but the input was very faint. When recording
from the microphone, I can hear (and record) a little spike when
switching the mic on, but nothing else. (The mic works fine when
attached to the onboard soundcard.)
Since I am getting some sort of input, I'm fairly sure that I haven't
muted any of the pertinent channels, but so far I haven't been able
to increase the input to acceptable levels. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
19 Nov
19 Nov
6:30 p.m.
Since I am getting some sort of input, I'm fairly
sure that
I haven't muted any of the pertinent channels, but so far I
haven't been able to increase the input to acceptable
levels. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I once tried to record audio using a mic, and the simplest to
use mixer tool was qamix (c) by M. Nagorny (thanks to
him :-) .
Perhaps you'd like to try it out:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mana
Best regards
ce
20 Nov
20 Nov
1:58 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:35:50PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
[...]
I once tried to record audio using a mic, and the simplest to
use mixer tool was qamix (c) by M. Nagorny (thanks to
him :-) .
I tried qamix, but it only gives me one (!) slider to control the
USB soundcard with, under 'Ext Source Playback'. In particular,
there's nothing under 'Playback' and 'Capture'. I guess qamix
doesn't know how to deal with my card.
Peter
2:19 p.m.
I guess qamix
doesn't know how to deal with my card.
I guess you've a onboard soundcard in your machine; maybe
qarecord currently controls mainly the internal card instead
of the USB card?
Best regards
ce
Jabber: HomoSapientz(a)jabber.org
«Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen» (Helmut Schmidt)
22 Nov
22 Nov
2:25 p.m.
Peter Brinkmann wrote:
I tried qamix, but it only gives me one (!) slider to
control the
USB soundcard with, under 'Ext Source Playback'. In particular,
there's nothing under 'Playback' and 'Capture'. I guess qamix
doesn't know how to deal with my card.
Please show the output of "lsusb -v" for your device.
Clemens
4:59 p.m.
Clemens,
It's attached.
Note that this is the output from stock installation
of Fedora Core 3 (more or less...), and that only qamix failed to
show more than one slider. alsamixer still showed all controls I
was expecting. On the DeMuDi side, alsamixer and kamix seem to work
equally well.
I'm still not getting any input from my microphone, though. Since
I figured that the device may be defective, I took it back to the
store and asked them to plug it into a Windows machine. We tried
all sorts of mixer settings and couldn't get any input from the
microphone. (My microphone works just fine when plugged into the
built-in soundcard.)
So, we took a new device out of its box and tried that one, and
we still couldn't get any input from the mic. Did anyone ever
manage to record from the mic, using the TerraTec Aureon 5.1 USB?
Best,
Peter
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I tried qamix,
but it only gives me one (!) slider to control the
USB soundcard with, under 'Ext Source Playback'. In particular,
there's nothing under 'Playback' and 'Capture'. I guess qamix
doesn't know how to deal with my card.
Please show the output of "lsusb -v" for your device.
26 Nov
26 Nov
12:24 p.m.
Hello,
I solved the mic input problem with the Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB
soundcard by switching to a different microphone. I tried a Terratec
Micro Master, a JVC M-201U, and a Sennheiser MKE 46. All of them
had fresh batteries, and they worked just fine when plugged into
the onboard soundcard, but only the MKE 46 produced noticeable input
levels when attached to the Aureon.
I find this sort of ironic since there's a picture of the Terratec
Micro Master on the box of the Aureon, so that one would expect those
two to work together. I also don't understand why the choice of microphone
matters so much, but for the time being I'm just happy that everything
works now.
I would like to point out that tech support at Terratec has been
extremely helpful. Although they don't officially support Linux, I
talked to an engineer who uses Linux at home and spent a lot of time
helping me with this problem. He was the one who, in a 'Hail Mary'
sort of way, suggested that I try different microphones after we'd
eliminated any other potential problem.
Peter
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Peter Brinkmann wrote:
Hello,
I recently bought a Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB soundcard for my Dell
Latitude C640, running an up-to-date installation of Fedora Core 3
as well as Demudi 1.2.
I managed to get the soundcard to work with the software I care
about (e.g., jack, rezound, ogle, mplayer) by making it the default
soundcard for ALSA, hacking configuration files like .oglerc, and
experimenting with alsamixer.
There's one remaining problem, though. The input levels from the
microphone and line in are extremely low. I've sort of managed to
record from line in, but the input was very faint. When recording
from the microphone, I can hear (and record) a little spike when
switching the mic on, but nothing else. (The mic works fine when
attached to the onboard soundcard.)
Since I am getting some sort of input, I'm fairly sure that I haven't
muted any of the pertinent channels, but so far I haven't been able
to increase the input to acceptable levels. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
7:24 p.m.
Hi,
I solved the mic input problem with the Terratec
Aureon 5.1
USB soundcard by switching to a different microphone.
Great to hear. I received my Aureon today, and I did record
from a cheap headset mic instantly (without any further
configuration - thanks to all developers for the great
work!).
The only point I was wondering is that the incoming signal was
extremely high, but I guess I'll find a solution the next
days.
Best regards
ce
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