[Lowfer] Argo Settings

[Douglas Williams]

John,

Interesting. I didn't know that about laptops. I've had very limited
experience with them, as I build a new gaming desktop every five years or
so, and I'm a "keyboard snob" and despise laptop keyboards. ;-)

-Doug WB4DW

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:38 AM Douglas Williams <williamsdoug1966 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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