Sorry if I was unclear. Let me try again. The USB microphone captures audio as indicated by the successful recording and volume meter display. But I cannot hear what is being captured in my headphones *during* recording. (The same is true if I use speakers instead of headphones, though I wouldn't normally do that due to feedback).I can hear the captured audio when I play it back afterward. I did not have this problem in the past with a microphone connected to mic in on the same sound card that the speakers/headphones are connected to. So I suspect there is something more complex I need to do to get a USB microphone appearing as a separate "sound card" to work the same way. I provided "list_cards" output because I wasn't sure what information was needed to diagnose this. Please let me know if there is anything else you need. Joe daLuz <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Lennart Poettering <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>> wrote: <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 Sat, 08.08.09 15:46, Joe daLuz (<a href="mailto:jdaluz@gmail.com">jdaluz@gmail.com</a>) wrote: > Hi, > > I just added a USB microphone to an already working setup (see below for > details). The microphone works fine according to the volume meter and > playback of any recordings I make. However I cannot monitor what the > microphone captures in real time. This is using Pulseaudio 0.9.15-r51 on > Gentoo using Gnome 2.26.3. Any help on this would be appreciated as, while > the current setup is not impossible to use it is sub-optimal. </div>Uh? First you say that the volume meter works fine for the mic and then you say monitoring doesn't? The volume meter simply monitors what you record, so what you say doesn't make too much sense to me? What do you mean? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net <a href="http://0pointer.net/lennart/" target="_blank">http://0pointer.net/lennart/</a> GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ 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>