[ardour-users] Setting recording levels

[CB]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:10, Them wrote:

> >  
> >
> You should be able to arm your track for recording and monitor the input 
> signal and reduce the input level for that track as appropriate.   Are 
> you using any kind of monitoring for your sound card?  Jack & Ardour 
> support various kinds of monitoring (software monitoring, for instance, 
> which can impact latency), but some sound cards have their internal 
> hardware monitoring (effectively zero-latency).  Are you adjusting the 
> main bus slider or one for the specific track?
> 
> -- Brett

I'm using hardware monitoring, and adjusting the slider for the
particular track I'm trying to record onto. It seems to only affect
playback, not recording. As far as I can see, I have no control over
recording level at all (either from within ardour or using an ALSA
mixer).