I've been playing with it quite a lot but it's pretty elusive, can somebody shed som light on how to record using sb live platinum liveDrive (front panel). I can get it to record but the levels are very low (vu meter goes to about 25%), even when I put the slider to max. I have the same problem with mic and phono pre-amp. at one point I was able to make it record with 'normal' loudness so I guess it's possible but I wasn't able to figure out how I did it that one time :-( I was using alsmixer to set the recording levels and sources (was playing with both capture and playback controls) Not sure if it matter but when I set playback for liveDrive line2 the output goes to speakers with 'normal' loudness (i.e. a lot louder than what is being recorded). this is on debian unstable using alsa in kernel 2.6.11, /proc/asound/version says Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.8 (Thu Jan 13 09:39:32 2005 UTC). any ideas? TIA! erik