<div dir="ltr"><div>Maybe the ALSA layer between PA and the recording applications makes the difference. Could you please also provide the amixer output.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пт, 2 окт. 2020 г. в 14:31, Mike Fisher <<a href="mailto:mike@fisher5.com">mike@fisher5.com</a>>:<br></div><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"><div>Fresh reboot.<br></div><div>I ran these 4 commands simultaneously:</div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">arecord -f cd ALSAoutput.wav<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">parecord PAoutput.wav</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">gnome-sound-recorder </span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">audacity</span></div><div>All volumes to 100%</div><div>Started them all recording at the same time, and here are my results.</div><div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">arecord -f cd ALSAoutput.wav </span>Full deflection<br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">parecord PAoutput.wav <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Full deflec</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">tion</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">gnome-sound-recorder </span>50% deflection<br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">audacity </span>Full deflection</div><div>I did not use <span style="font-family:monospace">pasuspender <font face="arial,sans-serif">for any test.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font face="arial,sans-serif"></font><br></span></div></div><div><br></div><div>It used to be the case that if I had pulse running it would grab ALSA, and no other applications could use ALSA directly. They had to use pulse which allows more than one application to use sound at the same time. I would open Audacity using the pulse host. Then I would only get 50% max deviation. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div>I don't know what changed, but this is actually the first time I have ever gotten audacity to get full deviation without having to</div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">auto spawn=no; pulseaudio -k</span></div><div>Then launch Audacity to grab ALSA which causes other apps to be blocked.</div><div><br></div><div><div>So this is a good start. Audacity now only sees ALSA as host, and pulse is no longer available as a host. This is confusing me as this never happened before while pulse was still running. I know pulse is running because pavucontrol still shows all its controls.</div><div><br></div><div>So I reboot and repeat the test to find out that I get the same result a/s above. Audacity has full deviation with pulse running (Audacity only sees ALSA, but works nonetheless). So what am I bitching about, it seems to be working. I should be happy and just go away without understanding WHY this is working. except for 1 item. <br></div><div><br></div><div>gnome-sound-recorder only gets 50% max deviation AT THE SAME TIME as 3 other applications are getting 100% ma deviation. WHAT???? <br></div><div><br></div><div>So I have 4 sound clips recorded by 4 different apps all using pulse audio 3 of them get 100% max deviation and one does not. </div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_kfrsbjtu0" alt="image.png" width="446" height="245"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Here is a fresh system config from right after the above test.</div><div><a href="https://termbin.com/1hd1" target="_blank">https://termbin.com/1hd1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Man I hope someone can help me finger this all out.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,</div><div>Denis Shulyaka<br></div></div></div>