Fwd: Disable monitor recording source

[Stuart Barkley]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 at 05:22 -0000, David Demelier wrote:

> Hello (sorry for forwarding but I didn't have much answers),

This is probably the best place for this question.

> I would like to record only from mic but I can't remove monitor from
> recording :
>
> markand at Melon ~ $ cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play)
> pcm1: <Analog Devices AD1984A (Analog 2.0+HP/3.1)> (play/rec) default
> markand at Melon ~ $ mixer
> Mixer vol      is currently set to  90:90
> Mixer pcm      is currently set to  90:90
> Mixer speaker  is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer mic      is currently set to  90:90
> Mixer rec      is currently set to  80:80
> Mixer igain    is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer ogain    is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer monitor  is currently set to  80:80
> Recording source: mic, monitor
> markand at Melon ~ $ mixer -rec monitor
> Recording source: mic, monitor
> markand at Melon ~ $
>
> What I'm doing wrong?

A couple simple thoughts:

I've always used something like 'mixer =rec mic'.  Have you tried
that?

Does recording work at all?  When you record do you get a mix of the
mic and the monitor channels?

You might also try 'mixer monitor 0' to just mute monitor in the mix.

Stuart
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