<div dir="ltr">think L might be only near - as mouth directly between the mics when speaking, the quality is good, and R sounds good from sitting back in the chair provided the room isn't noisy. Could this be?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Thomas Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.walker.lynch@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.walker.lynch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I wonder how many people have poor audio pick up unless they speak very closely to the mic... that would be fixed by changing the mic channel mix.</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Thomas Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.walker.lynch@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.walker.lynch@gmail.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Solved! whew! <div><br><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#PulseAudio_uses_wrong_microphone" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind<wbr>ex.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshoot<wbr>ing#PulseAudio_uses_wrong_<wbr>microphone</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">section: Another Possible Cause<br>and changed 'front-right' to 'front-left'<br><br>also, BTW, the new load mod commands have to go at the bottom of the /etc/pulse/<a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Right only is fine. I wonder if it is really R+L and R-L. It might be more like direct and periphery, or some such. L is live, it is just that it doesn't represent sound in front of the machine. When moving right on top of it, and speaking directly it does pick up.<div><div class="m_8784159531986500044h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.walker.lynch@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.walker.lynch@gmail.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Please include my email address in replies.</div><div><br></div><div>This laptop has two built in microphones on the lid. </div><div><br></div><div>I've been running sound tests using the pulse audio sound control to turn down the gain on the right or alternatively, left, microphone, then using audacity to monitor the results. (I have also used gnome-sound recorder and skype to monitor the results, as they are a bit surprising.)<br><br>The right channel is being sent to audacity as L+R. The left channel is being sent to audacity as as L-R. Yes, it took a while to figure this out.<br><br>The new Skype client is using only the left microphone, so the sound quality is very poor, near perfect cancellation at any distance from the mic.<br><br>1. Has anyone run across this before? Is this a known problem?<br>2. Is there a simple test for microphone channel input that can be used to determine if this is a hard problem or a driver problem? <br>3. is there a way to turn off the left and cross the right channel into the left at a low level? I dont need stereo on the microphone on this machine, at least not now as I am traveling.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for helping with this.<br><br><a href="mailto:Thomas.Walker.Lynch@gmail.com" target="_blank">Thomas.Walker.Lynch@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></div>
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