Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech
Subject: Re: Recording sound level too low
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"Peter H.M. Brooks"  writes:

> I still have a fundamental problem, though. When  I call the UK from
> South Africa,
> the sound from the UK is as good (maybe better) than on a normal 'phone.

The computer on the UK end has right type of microphone which 
works with the soundcard well and recording level settings
set right, so you get the sound from there well.

> However,
> my voice is either hardly heard, or breaks up. Why is this? 

You have something wrong woth your computer setting
or the UK end has it's listening volume too low.
The problem on the UK end can be sorted out by checking
if the sound works well in calls between some other
site and UK. If the other end were PC this check would
be necessary, but because in this case you are using ready
made service I would quiess that they have set up thing more
or less well anyway.
 
> Why is the sound the other way so good? After all, it is a normal UK
> 'phone that is
> being digitised and sent over here, and it sounds perfect.

That system has all the signal lelvels set correctly, has
hardware which works together as expected and is configured
right way.

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