HI sounding bees, I use my laptop(linux) to record speech with stereo microphones. The problem is on playing sound back using "cat filename >/dev/dsp", the output from left speaker is much louder than the right speaker. The sample file is recorded using "cat /dev/dsp> filename". I tried the gain settings in aumix, but the problem persisted. The mp3 songs sounds good with xine. Any suggestions? New bee, Rajdeep _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail