Microphone Gain

[DavidGWRawson]

I could almost use my sansa to listen to quiet conversations, with the gain high. Can you make it any higher than the current limit?

[Llorean]

The limits are based on the hardware. You could apply digital gain in post-processing, but that wouldn't allow you to pick up any sound, it'd just be like turning up the volume on the file after you'd already recorded it.

[DavidGWRawson]

The limits are based on the hardware.

The Rhapsody recorder had no user changable gain. Does that mean it automatically sets the gain? That's one thing rockbox is good for....

[Llorean]

We have no way of knowing what the original firmware does.

[DavidGWRawson]

Don't you have tools to disassemble it? How do you know how the sansa works then? How do you know how to configure software for sansa? Are all mp3 players similar?

[scorche]

Things REALLY aren't that simple...

[Llorean]

1) Yes, but we don't use them unless it's a last resort and haven't done so here due to datasheets for the DAC.
2) It's similar enough to iPods and the H10, that between those similarities and our datasheets, a lot was already covered, enough to begin investigating directly with the hardware.
3) A wide variety of methods.
4) No. Not even close.

[DavidGWRawson]

How do you look at the structure of the circutry within the microchips, and then figure out how to make rockbox work with it?

[Llorean]

You don't.

[DavidGWRawson]

you must be pretty smart then.