[pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone input filter

[Maarten Bosmans]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Toby Collett
<tcollett+lists at plan9.net.nz> 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?

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