On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Mike C. wrote:
Just so you know exactly what you're working with, first get a list of all microphone devices.
# arecord -l
Mike, Right now only the Audio-Technica is connected; the webcam and headset aren't: $ arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC1220 Analog [ALC1220 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 2: ALC1220 Alt Analog [ALC1220 Alt Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: AT2005USB [AT2005USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
This page might help with amixer - https://alsa.opensrc.org/Record_from_mic
Here, $ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 Mono: Front Left: Playback 55704 [85%] [on] Front Right: Playback 55704 [85%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 65536 Front Left: Capture 99957 [153%] [on] Front Right: Capture 99957 [153%] [on] The 'Capture' section's last two lines show that pavucontrol has set the mic volume to 153% and that produces speaker volume that's too low. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
