Recording on SB Live line-in

[Willem van der Walt]

You should set the line to R mode.
aumix -l R
aumix -lq
should now show an r next to the numbers.
HTH
Willem


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, John Heim wrote:

> I can't record the audio I hear when I plug my VCR or stereo into the
> line-jack on my SB Live sound card. I can record if I plug it int the mic
> jack but the quality isn't as good.  I've used aumix to set the level of
> the line-in to 64 which sounds good. But recording with sox gives me
> nothing but silence.  Ie:
>
> $ aumix -l 64 -m 64
> $sox -t ossdsp /dev/dsp bogus.wav
>
> That works if I have my VCR connected to the mic although the quality is
> poor.  Can I tell it to record from the line-in but not from the mic? Maybe
> aumix isn't the best tool to use.
>
> Alternately, maybe I could get the mic to work...  The problem with the mic
> jack is that I get only the left or the right channel. I have a cable with
> 2 RCA jacks on one end and a stereo jack on the other. The 2 RCA jacks are
> plugged into the line-out on the VCR, left and right. The stereo jack is
> plugged into the mic on the sound card. Only 1 of the RCA jacks matter. The
> other I might as well leave dangling because I don't hear that channel no
> matter what.  I can get the left channel on the VCR if i plug the jack that
> works into the left line-out jack on the VCR or I can get the right channel
> by plugging it into the right line-out jack.  So the mic is acting as if
> there's a stereo-mono converter in there somewhere.
>
> I know the cable is good because:
> 1. I can hear both channels if I plug it into the line-in on the soundcard.
> But as I explained above, then I can't record.
> 2. I have a second cable and that one does the same thing
> 3.  Both cables work fine with another sound card
>
>
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