Hamish wrote:
> > Tom told me that he does not think the mixer should affect the input
> > gain for recording, only for playback (passthrough). This did not seem
> > to be my experience but he is more knowledgable than I on this topic.
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:54:21AM +0200, Gerd wrote:
> This I do not understand fully. A lot of mixers I know of also let you
> set the input gain, even for the microphone input. That makes
> IMHO sense here for everybody who's using these input lines with
> SoundModem. Otherwise one had to fetch some other mixer
> capable of setting input levels. But why should you do so when
> smmixer is already available? Only because Tom thinks a mixer
> shouldn't affect input levels.
> In this case, the mileage of many people _will_ be different.
The mixer program actually writes a zero out to the register in question.
> But I want to ask Tom: What kind of program do you think one
> should use for setting levels on soundcard's input lines? (I hope
> you agree that this is necessary in most cases.)
I hope I am not misrepresenting Tom here. He told me that the setting
of the input gain should not be necessary, as they do not affect
recording, only the audio which is going out the speaker output.
smmixer writes zero to that register so that the input is not heard on
the output. That makes sense if you are using VOX mode for PTT for example.
My setup did not appear to work until I modified smmixer to let me
set that register. I might be mistaken. I may experiment with it
further at a later date.
Thanks everyone for the comments on the squelch operation.
Hamish
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