On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:

>> Did you check the levels of your soundcard's mixer ? The spectrum
>> shows a signal that's rather badly distorted...
>>
>
> The levels in alsamixer are all set to 100 -- can this cause clipping,
> and if so, would this account for the aliasing? I understand that
> clipping would cause distortion, but not aliasing.

What makes you think that there is "aliasing"?
And how would you differentiate it from distortion. 
Yes, 100 will almost certainly cause distortion of various kinds.


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