On 7/26/06, Alfons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It could, even if the digital form of the signal is OK. Your card > may apply digital gain at the max setting (i.e. to allow you to > boost very weak signals).
Ah.. that's interesting. I take it that this is something internal to the hardware rather than the driver(?) Is there a method to determine the max setting before digital gain is applied? > > > and if so, would this account for the aliasing? I understand that > > clipping would cause distortion, but not aliasing. > > Depends on where it occurs. Clipping will result in aliasing if at > that point the signal is still quantised in time - it doesn't have > to be 'digital', just 'sampled'. > Could you expand on this statement please? I don't follow -- what is an example of a sampled non-digital signal? Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
