On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:34:14AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > >Maybe it is your soundcard. Not all soundcards work 100% with linux. and I > >think you would have to have DMA working with it to get good recordings. > >Playing directly and recording to storage take different amounts of > >processor > >time. Also, are you recording to a line in port on the card or a mic port. > >Line in and mic ports have different attenuation and might need a matching > >transformer or some other sort of level control. That is why higher end > >cards > >have both a mic and line in port. > > > > > feeding a Line Out to a Mic In just needs attentuator resistors, not a > matching transformer. you can buy a mini-stereo-phone to > mini-stereo-phone patch cable with these attenuators built in, designed > to allow you to feed the line out from a CD player into a walkman style > tape deck's mic input. The usual attenuator is 100K ohms in series, > and 10k ohms in parallel . Note recording from a Mic Input will likely > be noisier. It claims to be "line in", not "mic". -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070428/39287b3d/attachment-0005.sig>