Poor Sound recording on Intel MB DG965SS [partially solved]

[Max Pyziur]

Apologies,

I thought that I had tried all of the options before I sent my request. As 
it turns out, I had the volume set too high on my tape player and that 
resulted in a poor digital recording.

However, I still do not hear the sound from an external input device like 
an PMP (my Creative Zen) or a tape player when recording using gnome sound 
recorder. It is only when I playback that I hear what I recorded (make 
sense?).

Is it possible to simultaneously listen and record at the same time using 
gnome sound recorder?

Thanks.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Max Pyziur wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Several years ago, sometime during the earlier releases of Fedora, I was
> able to listen to and record from external devices like my Creative Zen
> and Sony cassette tape recorder/player; while playing or recording I could
> hear the sound from the devices on my system speakers.
>
> These days, I'm trying to listen and record from the same devices on my
> F12 Intel MB DG965SS home-built system but only with weak success.
>
> I can play wav and mp3 audio files using  mpg321 and mplayer from a
> command line, and xmms and rhytymbox in the gnome desktop.
>
> However, unlike in previous releases (upto FC8?), I can't plug in an
> external device, run it through the line-in line (blue input), and hear it
> through the system's speakers.
>
> I can record from my tape recorder, but with very poor quality; while I'm
> recording, I can't hear it through the system's speakers, as I did
> previously.
>
> I've tried to review fedora-list threads pertinent to the subject. So far,
> the one application that has facilitated recording is the gnome sound
> recorder available through from the gnome-media-apps rpm. However, there
> is a considerable amount of distortion that sounds like  poor grounding.
> I've used the cables previously with success and there do not seem to be
> any cracks.
>
> Looking at the sound preference setting, the hardware tab is set to Analog
> Stereo Duplex, the input tab is set to Line-in/line-out and the Internal
> Audio Device radio button is active for sound input.
>
> My MoBo is an Intel MB DG965SS and it has sound built-in (Line-in,
> line-out, and microphone-in).
>
> Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz at brama.com
>