I don’t remember doing anything, other than shutting down ardour and starting it up the next day, but my mic input levels have dropped and I can’t see why - I can still record but it’s very quiet.
Can anyone suggest why this might be or how to fix it? In the screenshot you can see my normal recording levels, and also vocal-49.1 is my current recording level (same mic same mic position etc…). It’s not my system mic gain, normally I set that to about 65% but even at 100% I’m getting this low input level.
Mic is a Samsung Q2U usb mic plugged in to a usb port.
Are you sure that you have selected the USB mic, and not record any cross-talk from another input?
Does the mic have a software-controlled hardware mixer? check with alsamixer in a terminal. Maybe rebooting with the mic connected reset the levels there.
I’m definitely set to the UBS mic input, tapping the usb mic produces input, tapping the other connected mics (laptop internal,and webcam) doesn’t produce any input.
here’s alsamixer, can’t see anything helpful but I’ve never opened this before so don’t really know what I’m looking for…