2010/3/29 Soeren D. Schulze soeren.d.schulze@gmx.de
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
The bad thing about it is that 31,31 is a really bad setting for my poorly engineered sound card. It distorts a lot.
If the card cannot handle any loud output, then all outputs from any source must be restricted, so the logical place for lower volume would be the "Master" or "PCM" controls.
The problem is rather that it cannot handle loud *input*. With loud input from digital plus the respective DXS lever on high volume, it apparently overdrives at a very early stage in the sound card. Master and PCM do not help anything any more.
The other workaround would probably be using softvol for reducing the volume before it enters analog, but lowering the DXS levers is still better IMHO.
Thank you
Sören
did you set those per voice volume control to 0dB ?
try to play a sine wave of full amplitude and record using analog loopback of ac97 codec and audacity to find out whether the sine wave is clipped