-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: >> soundcard. From you comment below I understand that the sound card is using >> the input from all these sources simaltaneously and so the ones not >> needed must be muted.
The more complex soundcards may have an internal switch meaning that when one source is connected another becomes unavailable. Aside from that scenario I do not believe it is essential to have unused sources muted. >> What did help was the comment about other software. I found arecord >> works flawlessly capturing the input from the tape deck and the How frustrating that arecord will work and yet audacity won't. Try setting the audacity vu-meter to monitor, then play around with the alsamixer settings. This is how I identified the correct alsamixer settings on my system. >> turntable and writing it to .wav files on the hard disk. Audacity can >> load these files so I can edit them before writing them to cd's. This >> is what I wanted to accomplish so mission accomplished. I presume you aren't trying to record live music-that is when audacity proves its worth. Two other excellent resources are http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/ and http://forum.audacityteam.org/ Good luck. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq1+RYACgkQsUUdIDHrdAV1YwCeI95Ichdfo+YXkrXAZ4mMAbSq mQYAnAsBQZkKuM9cTfYDGOU5E+JPDjoN =vzio -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org