On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 03:39:44PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > hello. Just to clarify, I'm not trying to use two audio devices for > recording at the same > time. What I was doing was something like: > > #set up the audio device first > audioctl -d /dev/sound2 -w record.rate=44100 record.channels=2 > record.precision=16 \ > record.encoding=slinear_le > > #Now, the mixer device > mixerctl -d /dev/mixer2 -w inputs.line=240,240 record.source=mic > inputs.mic.mute=off \ > record.volume=240,240 > > Then, to record: > cat /dev/sound2 > rawrecordingfile
There are some quirks of /dev/sound that might cause problems, for example it has "sticky" pause state. I'd recommend using audiorecord(1) with /dev/audio instead just to get more consistent results. The man page has a nice predictable example to record CD quality audio: $ audiorecord -c 2 -e slinear_le -P 16 -s 44100 recording.wav It would also be interesting to see your full mixerctl -a output, there are many sound card dependent variables that could affect recording.
