How to record very faint sound from the analogue input?

[Dotan Cohen]

> As long as you still have pulseaudio, it can be done under the
> pulseaudio manager.
>
> You select your input stream while plugged in and you can crank it up
> past 100%. Obviously, you will reach distortion stress, loud popping
> and equipment damage, if done for too long.
>
> It's been a couple of years since I did it, but, just like you; I was
> restoring old tapes of my grandma talking, singing, etc, etc and I ran
> into very low sounds for which pulseaudio enhanced the sound stream
> when I recorded over t]o my harddrive.
>
> It just takes a bit of tweaking and you will find the sweet spot.
>

The PA volume is already at 100%.


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