Since frying my onboard soundcard, I'm trying to get a new USB sound card to work with ALSA.
Everything looks fine too:
[oliland@olidesktop ~]$ lsmod | grep '^snd'
snd_seq_dummy 1455 0
snd_seq_oss 28052 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5332 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48705 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_usb_audio 84746 0
snd_pcm_oss 37890 0
snd_mixer_oss 14851 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 71032 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 18992 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7017 1 snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 6134 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_usbmidi_lib 17889 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 18826 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_seq_device 5100 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 55132 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
/proc/asound/version:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
/proc/asound/cards:
0 [Device ]: USB-Audio - USB Sound Device
USB Sound Device at usb-0000:00:1d.3-1, full speed
/proc/asound/devices:
1: : sequencer
2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
4: [ 0] : control
33: : timer
/proc/asound/timers:
G0: system timer : 3333.333us (10000000 ticks)
P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE
/proc/asound/pcm:
00-00: USB Audio : USB Audio : playback 1 : capture 1
But it sounds terrible!
http://soundcloud.com/oli-2-2/alsa-problem-distorted-sound
It sounds like a tin can telephone. Does anyone have any ideas for why it sounds so terrible and how to fix it? All of the gains are set to 0, and my .asoundrc is blank. I've tested the USB card on Mac and Windows machines and it and the speakers are fine.
