Microphone Problem

[O. Sinclair]

On 18/05/2011 03:53, Waleed Hamra wrote:
> i'm having a very weird problem.
> i have never thought of using my microphone before, but this week, i
> decided to give it a try.
> after some fiddling with alsamixer, i managed to see what controls i
> need to control its volume, and what levels are acceptable between high
> enough volume, and not too high to cause nasty feedback loops. so
> basically, now when i speak into the microphone, i hear my sound coming
> from the speakers. i thought all is fine... but alas... no
> NONE of the programs i tried managed to detect the faintest of sounds.
> i tried skype, i tried audacity, i tried arecorder, even ran virtualbox
> and checked Windows' sound recorder, nothing, they all hear nothing,
> yet... i am hearing myself during all the tests, on the speakers... this
> is really really confusing.
> anyone has any ideas?
>
Try installing either pavucontrol or the veromix plasmoid and then play 
around with input channels. The Pulseaudio system is not yet well 
supported in KMix but depending on version is default in Kubuntu. I like 
veromix as it is "native kde" and can sit in the systray. I have 
basically replaced KMIx with Veromix.