How to record very faint sound from the analogue input?

[Knapp]

I am going back again to the basic question. What are you trying to
do? Can you make a normal Skype like mic work with your system? Taking
a skype style mic, you can open up the bit by the mouth and take out
that very little mic without hurting the wires and shove it with some
silicon glue into a stethoscope right before it splits to the two
ears. With this you can do all sorts of fun stuff.

My other thought is that I think my router manual said I could use it
to shunt the phone signal into my computer. I am not sure of this
because my German sucks and my manual is in German as is the router
software. If you can't do that, I bet you can buy a device that can. I
know that back in the ealy 90s I had a phone modem that could do this
and I used my XP system as my answering machine. It was a cheep modem
BTW and it worked great.

Have you tested that devices output by trying it as an input to your
stereo or computer speaker system? This should at least tell you if
the problem is the device or the computer. You might also try booting
the computer with a live CD from something else besides a Debian based
Linux, maybe even XP if you can get it.

In other words, first isolate the problem.

Are you using Kmix? Do you have all the sliders turned on? Do you have
the mic boost turned up? Are you plugging that plug into the right
port of the computer? Does that device need batteries? Are yours new?

By now you should know that you need to give us all the data first to
get the best help.

Hope your family is doing well, mine is but the kids are sick all
week. Nothing bad just sick.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
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