[Techtalk] Sound recording in Feisty

[David Sumbler]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:07 +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu Feisty.
> 
> If I record sound from the line-in input (or the microphone input) of my
> sound card, using Gnome Sound Recorder, the recording seems to be fine,
> but for some reason is only mono - this is confirmed if I open the file
> in Audacity.
> 
> If I record in Audacity I can get stereo, but the sound is horribly
> distorted - generally very "scratchy" and echoey.  I have tried changing
> all of the settings in Preferences -Quality, and although some changes
> altered the sound a little, none of them made it anywhere near to
> acceptable.
> 
> Can anyone suggest either or both: (a) how to get stereo sound in Sound
> Recorder (b) why I am getting such distortion when recording using
> Audacity?

Further to the above - I have tried gramofile, with the same results as
in Audacity.  I get stereo, but badly distorted.  Yet results using
Sound Recorder are fine, but only mono.  Very odd.

David

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