[Asterisk-Users] Recording from AGI playback is LOW

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:49 -0500, Steve Prior wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
> 
> > I am doing a record in my AGI. When I play it back at that moment
> > on the phone it sounds just fine.
> > 
> > When I do a "play file.gsm" it is REAL LOW on the soundcard
> > When I send dial using IAX2 to another asterisk box and play it on Zap/2 
> > it is low also.
> > 
> > When I "play demo-congrats.gsm" on the soundcard it is just fine.
> > 
> > Any ideas why or what to do?
> 
> I'm chasing a similar issue (normal sound levels for calls and playback
> of canned recordings, but very low voicemail volume) and noticed that
> when I leave a voicemail the uncompressed WAV file is at normal volume
> but the 2 compressed versions are very low volume.  Apparently under the
> covers the system uses sox to create these compressed files.

No it doesn't. The uncompressed version is also getting a double
amplification by shifting the bits up before saving and all the
compressed versions aren't doing the same thing. I know this as I have
done work in the formats directory.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>