"Woody" wrote


You are right, an external attenuator is a GOOD thing. The audio going
into
the card will be amplified before being converted to digital on which the
software slider work. It is therefore very easy to overload the input and
the sliders will make no difference - the sound is already distorted! I
know, I found out the hard way.



Yes, I agree - I feel that getting the signal sorted *before* it gets into
the digital domain can only be a good thing, but I also reckon a nice little
knob to twiddle, by the computer, is going to be a far more satisfying way
to set recording levels (on the fly, watching the meters) than poncing
about, flicking from screen to screen....