Seperating the mic from the speakers.

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/05/10 23:19, Ray Parrish wrote:
> 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.
>    
Well there you are...one never knows what one can achieve when one does 
some fiddling! Look at what Nero achieved! :-)

BC

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