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Hi all. Tried searching no results. I installed FLdigi to control a ham radio, an Icom IC-7200. It is listening for input audio via USB, and it can hear it fine, but I can't adjust the input volume to turn it down some. The alsamixer didn't do the trick. I tried every input there. Suggestions?
Many machines have multiple soundcards these days. So adjusting the one that's actually used isn't as simple.
$ pavucontrol
If you have and use pulseaudio.
Or opt for a hardware solution. I use an HP4 headphone preamp from presonus. I find that there's a certain level that the soundcard sounds best at, so having another means to adjust audio (and adjust quickly with physical knobs) has it's perks. Plus using multiple speaker sets to get an EQ that doesn't make me sad has it's perks. Yes there's software means to accomplish much of the same things. But being able to lean over and push a physical mute button for the two seconds that someone thinks that I'm listening to them has it's perks.
Thanks, Shadow. I'm not at the radio at the minute but I might be later on tonight (or tomorrow at the latest). I'll give it a shot and bump the thread with either a yay or neigh.
Just tried those commands. As mentioned in the original post, I went through all facets of the alsamixer console and tried every slider I could find when I was at the radio. Keep in mind the input stream I'm trying to decrease is from a USB port, so I assume that has something to do with it... thoughts?
No joy. In the alsamixer console, when I press F6 to select a device, I see
Quote:
- default
0 HDA Intel MID
1 USB Audio CODEC
enter device name...
I cycled through the top two, including scrolling all the way to the right, and turned them all down / off and watched the FLdigi audio input waterfall. It didn't change. When I went to "1 USB Audio CODEC", there's one Playback device, which I turned all the way down, but under Capture, it just says "This sound device does not have any capture controls." It has to be somewhere, because I can change this on Windows. Maybe a permissions issue?
alsamixer has F1 for help, but normally press tab twice to get ALL the channels. Use the arrow keys to move around and adjust, M to unMute and Mute. Sometimes you have to change other things to make some channels visible. But since you're already getting sound that's probably not something that affects you.
What is acting as your speakers? My monitor has audio input and speakers. But the volume control for those are in the monitors menus. Since I feed it from a hardware solution I also have volume control on the preamp and on the audio device in software.
So it's sort of a strange situation (to this forum, anyway). I'm a ham radio operator. I have a radio called the IC-7200. The radio is connected to the computer via USB so I can use the program FLdigi and take advantage of the radio's digital data modes, like PSK31, RTTY, JT65, even computer-controlled CW (Morse code).
The computer needs to accept audio input from the USB source (the radio) and also put audio back out through the USB to transmit data, so the "speakers" right now are set up as the USB. I think that works. When I get home, I'm going to take another radio I have and tune it to the IC-7200's frequency, turn on FLdigi and have it transmit my call sign to see if it is being put out properly.
I'll check groups tonight when I'm off work and add myself if I need to. Thanks for everything so far.
Enabling/Disabling USB CAT/AUDIO.
•In the Configuration menu is entry 220 CAT-MODE (Configuration->CAT Mode). You have to set this to ON. This setting is stored permanently in the configuration. You only have to enabled it once, store the configurations e.g. by normal power-off.
•Connect your PC to the mini-USB port.
•Linux machines will now automatically detect both the virtual com port as /dev/ttyACM? and also the audio is automatically detected. Depending on the Linux sound package you are using, you may not see the capture device (sound in) in all programs. Pulse Audio does work, ALSA seems to have trouble seeing the capture interface. This may improve in future. Make sure that not programs like "modemmanager" access your device. See FAQ below.
•Windows machines should load the audio in and out driver without problems. However, the virtual COM port needs special care on all Windows Version upto and including Windows 8.1. Windows 10 loads the right drivers automatically. All Windows version from XP on can operate the serial after installation of a "special" driver information file. See below for instructions.
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