Hi Maarten, There seem to be three levels that affect the mic, the 'Front Mic Boost' which is 0,33,66 or 100%, the capture input level and a mysterious input labeled digital. I have played with many combinations of the levels and cannot find any where my voice is audible but has an acceptable level of background noise. It is possible that these is some driver level thing going wrong, but so far I have not been able to identify it. The mic is built into the keyboard of my laptop just above the harddrive, so I am not surprised it is noisy, that is why I was wondering if some filtering would help. Toby <div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/3 Maarten Bosmans <<a href="mailto:mkbosmans@gmail.com">mkbosmans@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Toby Collett <<a href="mailto:tcollett%2Blists@plan9.net.nz">tcollett+lists@plan9.net.nz</a>> wrote: > I am trying to use the internal microphone in my laptop to make VOIP calls > (actually skype mostly). The quality of the sound is not good at all with > large amounts of background noise when I have the levels up high enough to > get voice. The microphone is usable windows, and I am wondering if this is > due to software filters being applied there? </div>Could it be that the mic-boost or some other switch of the soundcard is differently initialized under Windows? You can check in Linux with: alsamixer -c0 Maarten _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> -- This email is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged and/or confidential information