[alsa-devel] Decibel Levels for Storm Medusa 5.1 USB Headset
Hello everyone,
I hope this Information helps. I have the Storm Medusa 5.1 USB Headset which reports wrong decibel levels to pulseaudio. My Alsa-Info are located at
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a882f3db6769c5dfce83c266946eff52d1d55349
The Headset is card2 in the above dump.
My decibel levels-fix
[DecibelFix Speaker] db-values = 1:-30 37:3
works fine. Level 0 is mute, hence -infinity dB.
Greetings
At Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:05:14 +0200, Alexander Blinne wrote:
Hello everyone,
I hope this Information helps. I have the Storm Medusa 5.1 USB Headset which reports wrong decibel levels to pulseaudio. My Alsa-Info are located at
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a882f3db6769c5dfce83c266946eff52d1d55349
The Headset is card2 in the above dump.
My decibel levels-fix
[DecibelFix Speaker] db-values = 1:-30 37:3
How did you define these values?
Takashi
works fine. Level 0 is mute, hence -infinity dB.
Greetings
Hello,
well I have to admit that those level were just a guess. I have now made an accurate measurement of the real volume levels by playing back white noise through the headset and recording with a microphone at the same time, while increasing the hardware volume level with 'amixer'. Then i have measured the volumes with audacity's contrast-analyzer and smoothed the resulting curve by applying a nonlinear least squares fit with a function a*log(x+d*x^2+e*x^3)+b+c*x, wich fits the data really well.
The resulting levels are:
0 invalid/unconclusive, sometimes mute, sometimes louder than 1. seems not to be working correctly.
1 -24,91 2 -22,31 3 -20,10 4 -18,15 5 -16,46 6 -15,00 7 -13,73 8 -12,61 9 -11,62 10 -10,72 11 -9,91 12 -9,17 13 -8,49 14 -7,87 15 -7,28 16 -6,74 17 -6,23 18 -5,75 19 -5,30 20 -4,88 21 -4,48 22 -4,09 23 -3,73 24 -3,38 25 -3,05 26 -2,74 27 -2,44 28 -2,15 29 -1,87 30 -1,61 31 -1,35 32 -1,10 33 -0,87 34 -0,64 35 -0,42 36 -0,21 37 0,00
Alex
I hope this Information helps. I have the Storm Medusa 5.1 USB Headset which reports wrong decibel levels to pulseaudio. My Alsa-Info are located at
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a882f3db6769c5dfce83c266946eff52d1d55349
The Headset is card2 in the above dump.
My decibel levels-fix
[DecibelFix Speaker] db-values = 1:-30 37:3
How did you define these values?
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2007-November/003867.ht...
If your headset have windows driver, need to find out which USB chip and look at the datasheet of the chip
e.g. cm106l ’s datasheet contain a table of dac volume cortol
participants (3)
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Alexander Blinne
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Raymond Yau
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Takashi Iwai