{"id":450,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=450"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"quiet-audio-in-beos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Quiet audio in BeOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New BeOS users sometimes discover that audio is quieter in BeOS than it is in Windows or other operating systems. The reason for this is that Windows drivers add about +20dB of artificial volume to the output, while the BeOS driver is volume-neutral. This is very important to audio professionals, who will enjoy higher quality audio from BeOS than they do from Windows (Windows will distort output on high-quality hardware). Do not file a bug report &#8212; Be does not intend to &#8222;fix&#8220; this situation. Just turn up your volume controls a little more.<br \/>\nHowever, there is a known bug with the Sound Blaster PCI 128 (and possibly other cards), which have especially low sound output. For instance you can have the volume at a normal level and you will hear nothing. This is a known BeOS bug which should be fixed in a post R.4.5.2 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New BeOS users sometimes discover that audio is quieter in BeOS than it is in Windows or other operating systems. The reason for this is that Windows drivers add about +20dB of artificial volume to the output, while the BeOS driver is volume-neutral. This is very important to audio professionals, who will enjoy higher quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-audio-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}