On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote: > There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback > volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess > which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There may be others; my > old Sound Blaster Live had a ton of internal signal processing > sliders, and anything that involves amplification presents that risk.
[...] (some useful stuff snipped :)) At the moment all the other sliders are at 0. So I do not know, maybe some other sliders are doing this... Also, ALSA can show the levels in dBs for my card... but I get sand even when I'am at gain of ~ (-11,-14)dB on all three sliders (Master, PCM, Headphone). > You might try using something like PulseAudio, which may be doing > internal mixing in the floating point space before it maps back to > 16-bit linear PCM. My experiences with PulseAudio have generally been > positive in terms of audio quality. The trickiest part is getting > applications to pipe their audio through it, followed by getting > direct access to the card's mixer settings if I need it. But > "pavucontrol" as a mixer control for PulseAudio works reasonably well > for the majority of circumstances. I am using Pulse :)... The problem with I have that it changes my PCM and Headphone levels without asking me... Therefore, if I change the levels manually on alsamixer and then use Pavucontrol, it just changes the PCM and headphone or speaker levels to max, which makes the sound crappy. Otherwise I am quite a happy Pulse user. :) Is there a way to set the limiting thresholds? Or maybe I am using two things at the same (ALSA and Pulse) and they are clashing and, therefore, I can not get good quality sound? >> Thanks a lot for help, > > np. > > (Note: I CC'd this back to the main list, because somehow this one got > sent to me directly. Channeling communications through the main list > keeps the archives useful.) I thought, that I have replied to both, list and you.. :) Well, thanks for that. :) Cheers, I.
