Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-23 Thread Geoff Steckel
Some sound cards have two volume controls: one is for the specific source and the other is for the whole card. Both must be at 100% for maximum output. On 07/23/2015 06:55 AM, ropers wrote: I'm talking out my arse here, but: To me, your submission vaguely reminds me of the CD Loudness War < http

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-23 Thread ropers
I'm talking out my arse here, but: To me, your submission vaguely reminds me of the CD Loudness War < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war>. It sounds to me as if your hardware may be inherently a bit too quiet, but to an extent it's possible to compensate for that by pre-processing the signa

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-22 Thread Артур Истомин
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:11:20AM -0700, tekk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:47:16AM -0700, Артур Истомин wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:01:17AM -0700, tekk wrote: > > > I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) > > > Audio > > > is just a bit too quie

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-17 Thread tekk
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:47:16AM -0700, Артур Истомин wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:01:17AM -0700, tekk wrote: > > I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio > > is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed > > out. I had a

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-17 Thread Артур Истомин
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:01:17AM -0700, tekk wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio > is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed > out. I had a similar problem on Linux and I was able to create a boost > device to feed

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread tekk
On 07/11/15 15:49, Jan Stary wrote: On Jul 11 08:30:37, t...@parlementum.net wrote: On 07/11/2015 08:24 AM, Jan Stary wrote: On Jul 10 19:15:31, h...@stare.cz wrote: On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio is

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 11 08:30:37, t...@parlementum.net wrote: > On 07/11/2015 08:24 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > >On Jul 10 19:15:31, h...@stare.cz wrote: > >>On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote: > >>>I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio > >>>is just a bit too quiet to

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread tekk
On 07/11/2015 12:24 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said "tekk" on Sat, 11 Jul 2015 08:30:00 -0700: So e.g. "mixerctl -v inputs.dac-0:1=255" sets it to 174,174? Exactly. inputs.dac-{0:1,2:3}=$value_above_174 simply sets it to 174. It would be more helpful if instead of describing the problem

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "tekk" on Sat, 11 Jul 2015 08:30:00 -0700: > > So e.g. "mixerctl -v inputs.dac-0:1=255" sets it to 174,174? > > > Exactly. inputs.dac-{0:1,2:3}=$value_above_174 simply sets it to 174. It would be more helpful if instead of describing the problem that you would just copy/paste the resu

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread tekk
On 07/11/2015 08:24 AM, Jan Stary wrote: On Jul 10 19:15:31, h...@stare.cz wrote: On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed out. I had a

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread tekk
On 07/11/2015 08:23 AM, Jan Stary wrote: I've tried playing with inputs.dac-0:1 and other values since and the inputs.dac-* actually *do* max out at 174 for me. So e.g. "mixerctl -v inputs.dac-0:1=255" sets it to 174,174? Exactly. inputs.dac-{0:1,2:3}=$value_above_174 simply sets it to 174.

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 10 11:12:31, t...@parlementum.net wrote: > On 07/10/15 13:15, Jan Stary wrote: > >Please show the output of mixerctl -av > >This is hardly 'maxed out'. > >Same for the other settings. > > > > > Sorry about that, I'd asked in IRC about it and was given a few devices to > try, and they didn't

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 10 19:15:31, h...@stare.cz wrote: > On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote: > > I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio > > is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed > > out. I had a similar problem on Linux Are y

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-10 Thread tekk
On 07/10/15 13:15, Jan Stary wrote: Please show the output of mixerctl -av This is hardly 'maxed out'. Same for the other settings. Sorry about that, I'd asked in IRC about it and was given a few devices to try, and they didn't work. I know for sure that a couple got reset at least (I remembe

Re: Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-10 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio > is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed > out. I had a similar problem on Linux and I was able to create a boost > device to feed audio

Audio Boost for Sndio

2015-07-10 Thread tekk
I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed out. I had a similar problem on Linux and I was able to create a boost device to feed audio through before it went to the speakers, could I do