[Lowfer] Argo Settings

[Douglas Williams]

Yea I probably should have said to try to keep the green bar somewhere in
the lower half of it's range, somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2 of the way up.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:51 AM J D <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> On 12/14/2020 4:50 PM, lmlangenfeld wrote:
> > I have never seen the green bar on the left of the Argo screen anywhere
> near half-way up
>
> A great many laptops won't let you go all the way to clipping. The
> assumption with internal sound cards on portables is that they will only
> be used for gaming or Skyping via headsets, so they have AGC that tries
> to prevent your average nontechnical user from overdriving the A/D
> converter and causing excess distortion.  I gather some notebooks have
> sound settings that let you disable AGC.  Mine doesn't.  It bugs me as a
> former professional recording engineer to not be able to manually ride
> gain.  But it doesn't really pose any serious problem for Argo that I've
> ever found.
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