HOWTO - Ubuntu Darkice Configuration for Live Audio Feeds

HOWTO - Ubuntu Darkice Configuration for Live Audio Feeds

This HOWTO makes an assumption that you already have your input device, either mic or line-in configured as a capture device in the mixer and that your capture levels are high enough to get audio feeding into /dev/dsp (the OSS sound device).
In linux, your capture level is the level that will feed into the stream, this is where you wind up with either excessive hiss from too low an output from the scanner and too high a capture input boost or you can get distortion on the feed from too high a drive from the scanner ouput and/or too high a capture level drive.
I recommend a healthy level of output from the scanner/radio device and backing down the capture level to about 1/2 or until the feed is not distorted from the loudest level from the scanner/radio input device.

HOWTO - Ubuntu Darkice Configuration for Live Audio Feeds
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Live_Audio/Ubuntu_Darkice