Microphone input distorted

[Jewelfox]

After upgrading to Fedora 17, I tried to use Audacity to do sound recording but it came back extremely distorted. I tried switching around the input and output things used, via the buttons on Audacity's interface, to things like "pulse" and "default" and "Intel something or other," but no dice; it just changed how distorted it was.

In Fedora 16, sound recording worked.

Please tell me what I should do, or who I should notify with what information.

[oldcpu]

Sometimes distorted recording sound can be as simple as the recording levels being too high, and one needs to back off on the recording levels.

If your audacity is using pulse audio, ts possible you can do this with the application pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol) going to its input device Tab (ensure show all input devices selected) and also to its recording tab (ensure show all streams selected) and then tune the recording levels there.