From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 17:57: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from n5ial.gnt.com (n5ial.gnt.com [204.49.69.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B891037B4C5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by n5ial.gnt.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29547 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:56:50 -0600 Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:56:50 -0600 From: Jim Graham To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: setting audio record levels ... any VU meter type apps? Message-ID: <20001105195650.A29457@n5ial.gnt.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i X-PGP: see http://www.gnt.net/~n5ial for PGP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, me again..... :-) My long series of questions is the result of having capabilities that I didn't have (or couldn't really take advantage of very well) before upgrading from my old, tired computer[1] running a home-grown BSD-like variant of Linux, to my new, much more powerful computer[2] running FreeBSD 4.1.1, so please bear with me.... :-) Anyways, I'm doing a lot of conversion of audio that, until now, I've only had on cassette or record, to CD and/or MP3, and one thing I've run into again and again is the need for a simple VU meter for setting the record levels by something other than trial and error...which works, but can be a royal PITA. Does anyone here know of either a mixer app, or other app, that provides this capability? If not, does anyone have any suggestions for a more reasonable method than trying to vary both the line input level and the record level (via trial and error) to get the best compromise? Suggestions most welcome..... Btw, my sound card is the Soundblaster PCI 128. Thanks as always, --jim [1] AMD K5 133 MHz ... and as I've recently learned is common with the AMD K5 (which I'm told almost put AMD out of business), crashes if you even so much as look at it funny. [2] AMD Athlon 650 MHz -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | "Debating unix flavors in the context of anything jim@n5ial.gnt.net | Microsoft is like talking about which ice cream ICBM / Hurricane: | flavor tastes least like sawdust with turpentine 30.39735N 86.60439W | sauce." --(void) in alt.sysadmin.recovery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message