How to record very faint sound from the analogue input?

[JD. Brown]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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%.
>
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

That's not what I meant. You can adjust the pulseaudio manager
input/output streams well past 100%, up to 480%; It's not done on your
normal volume applet.



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