Comment 7 for bug 1000759

What I'm saying is that at least on the hardware I tested, I can reach maximum volume (evidenced by clipping the hardware mic input and maxing the volume meter in Mixxx) by yelling into the mic, so the signal chain is working correctly, it's just that the dynamic range is too great since regular talking is significantly lower than the maximum the chain supports. So we need an upward compressor assigned to the mic channel by default so as to automatically bring up the lower signal levels without affecting the higher ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upward_compression.svg Since we have effects now, I would expect that this would be fairly easy to do.