[NTLUG:Discuss] Microphone

[al]

> In the hardware behind the audio mixer, there is a switch that
> selects which input actually gets fed into the recording software.
> (It could be the Microphone, the Line input, the phone, the CD
> player...maybe others).
> 
> On my sound card, you can have the mic plugged in and turned on
> and when you talk into it, you can hear your voice coming out
> of the computer's speakers.  The Mic-volume on the mixer changes
> the volume just as you'd expect - but recording the sound using
> something like krecord produces files containing noise - but nothing
> from the microphone.  That sounds like a fair characterization of
> your problem.
> 
> The problem is that unless the audio mixer has the microphone selected
> as the record input, none of that sound data makes it into the CPU.
> 
> The exact solution depends on which mixer control program you use,
> some have specific buttons...I use kmix - and it makes the 'line'
> input be the record input by default - you have to right-click on
> the Mic slider and select 'RecSource' to make the microphone be the
> input device.
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> 
> It took me *ages* to figure this out when it fist happened to me!
> The 'right-click on the mic slider' trick for kmix *sucks* as a
> user interface for the uninitiated!


wow
I didnt even know I had a problem
my mike did that too so I moved it to my winbox;)

thanks for the info
aal