Soundblaster - was Re:turn up volume on soundcard software

[Fabio FZero]

I don't know about Audigy, but the SBLive is almost two soundcards in one
with a digital mixing bus between them. One half is the EMU10K1 chip and the
other is a plain, boring AC97 codec.

So, trying to answer both questions below:

1. The clipping which is occurring when the volume goes above 80% is
probably something on EMU10K1 output which is clipping the AC97 input. All
settings appear on alsamixer, but it's quite complicated to understand what
goes where. When I had SBLive installed here, lowering the PCM volume and
increasing AC97 out (or "Front", I don't remember now) got rid of the
clippings.

2. As I said before, I never used an Audigy, but I read somewhere that the
design is quite similar to the SBLive. If this is true, try increasing the
AC97 output. This should boost the volume. A lot.

FZ

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 21:49, Andrej Marjan <amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On February 18, 2010 03:36:23 pm you wrote:
>
> > True.  Of course on my sb live, going above about 80% causes clipping
> > (someone did a stupid design apparently).  That's rather unusual though.
>
> Going off on a tangent, I have an Audigy 2 which is quite nice and has a
> fantastic DAC on it and I have it connected to an old analog receiver that
> acts as an amplifier.
>
> Under Windows XP, it's also very loud. Under everything else (including
> newer
> Windowses), it's a lot quieter. I have to turn up the volume on the
> receiver
> considerably to get the same output. Of course that introduces noise from
> the
> receiver.
>
> I don't suppose anyone here knows of a way to boost its output under Alsa
> to
> something comparable to the Windows XP setting? I haven't been able to find
> anything too useful myself.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/legacy/attachments/20100219/6a885a08/attachment.html>