On 2020-06-18 15:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/17/20 11:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 06/11/2020 10:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: >>> Try recording yourself to a file (e.g. use Audacity). Does it sound >>> clear? If not, check your mike gain isn't wound up excessively high, >>> wiggle leads and connectors, see if you can find a fault with your mic >>> that you can make come and go. >> >> Sorry for the delay on this. I've installed Audacity on my laptop and tried >> to make a recording. I've got the internal mike set at the default setting, >> and when I test it in the Settings of Zoom, it looks like it's working, but >> I can't get any response from Audacity or make it play back what I've just >> said. I've followed the tutorials, but absolutely nothing! Am I supposed >> to save my test and then play it back? > > The interface is a little confusing and the toolbars can be moved around, so > I'll assume the default layout that I have is the same as yours. > > To the right of the play control buttons, there are two rows. On the second > row, there are microphone and speaker icons. To the left of the microphone > is where you can pick which input to use. Below the play control icons is a > microphone and to the right of that is a meter which says "Click to Start > Monitoring". If you click that, you should see the level of the microphone > input. If you don't see any activity try other input options. > > Once you have activity, then you can click the red record button and it > should create a new track and start showing the waveform as it's recording. > Stop when you have enough and then you can play it back.
In the original post he mentioned, "If I use the internal speakers and mic, the sound is sometimes OK, sometimes not. However, I'm told that there's so much static from my mic that the host mutes me before I can even say one, single word." I found that would happen if one has the input level set too high in pavcontrol. What is shown in audacity doesn't appear to reflect the settings in audacity. I have pavcontrol set to 40%~45% and it sounds fine. Well, except for the fact that the laptop is old and the mic is "substandard" and not well isolated as it picks up fan vibrations. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
