reducing line-in volume for recording

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Greg:

You pretty much want to take care of this during recording, if you can.
If you get a distorted recording, it's going to be hard, if not
impossible, to get rid of the distortion.

You should have separate lin in level controls on your input line. You
should be able to adjust it via alsamixer (or amixer).

Caution: If the output you're using is headphone and not line out,
you're going to be running extremely hot--far too hot for the integrity
of your componants. You will need extremely low input levels to
compensate.
Gregory Nowak writes:
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> Hi all.
> 
> I would like to record from an audio source which is hooked up to my
> sound card through the line-in jack, but the audio source has no
> volume control of it's own, so I can't adjust the volume up and down
> on the audio source. When I try recording from the audio source, the
> resulting recording is pretty distorted.
> 
> I know that the line-in control has volume adjustment, but that volume
> adjustment seems to be only for play back, not for recording. 
> 
> So, am I missing something, and there is actually a way of adjusting
> the volume of line-in for recording, or will I have to content myself
> with normalizing the recording afterwards? BTW, I am using
> alsa. Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Greg
> 
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