sound capture on Fedora 7

[Joe Smith]

Andrew Wood wrote:
> Recently I've installed Audacity to edit audio captured from my 
> mini-disk. The sound card I have is based on a C-Media CMI8738 chipset. 
> There's only one mic socket on the card so I thought this would be a 
> doddle to sample. ...

It may well this to work, but unless you know what you're doing, you 
generally don't want to plug anything into the mic input except a 
microphone.

For a mini-disk player, or any other audio device, you want to use the 
sound card's "line in" input. There's only one of those as well ;-)

The mic input expects a much smaller signal voltage range and although 
you can usually adjust the player volume low enough to get the signal 
down, you're then working in a range that may not be optimal for the 
player's output electronics.

The player's headphone output and the sound card's "line in" are a 
better match.

<Joe