Seperating the mic from the speakers.

[Ray Parrish]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 12/05/10 16:44, Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been making recordings of myself playing guitar along with music
>> videos on You Tube.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that the microphone I use to capture the sound
>> from the guitar amplifier can be heard on the computer speakers. This is
>> causing the computer speakers to become overdriven due to the volume of
>> the guitar.
>>
>> As a result, the guitar sounds fine on my recordings, but the music from
>> the video is overdriven, and sounds lousy since it's getting captured by
>> the mic, which records the overdriven state to the recordings.
>>
>> Is there some way to uncouple the microphone from the computer speakers?
>> I have looked through every sound control tool I can find on my machine,
>> and so far nothing has done the trick.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can be, Ray Parrish
>>    
>>     
> Isn't there any setting in alsamixergui which you could disable to get 
> what you want?
>
> BC
>   
Well, it was kind of unintuitive, but I figured it out b fiddling with 
the settings with sound recorder open, and trying to record from the 
mike at the same time.

In the Gnome Alsa Mixer one can select record for the mike, but also may 
select mute for the mic, which does not prevent recording from it, it 
just prevents it from outputting anything to the speakers, which is 
exactly what I wanted.

I never expected that muting the mic would be what I would have to do.

Later Ray Parrish

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