Samson C01U USB microphone records pips plays inconsistently

[Simon Gibbs]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

Random pips are recorded in sound recorder.

When playing back, sometimes silence or just one pip is played instead.

Steps taken:

Insert USB mike.
Open sound preferences and select "Samson Technologies Samson C01U USB Audio (ALSA)"
Open sound recorder
Press Record
Speak to mike ("la la la")
Press stop
Play back

Expected result:

Audio "la la la" is played

Actual result - pips

The mike works smoothly on a Macintosh and acceptably on Windows.

The saved WAV file contains pips in movie payer, silence in audacity.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-sound-recorder
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-media 2.26.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-media
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The ubuntu team doesn't have the ressources to work on this specific issue but it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

Isn't this most likely an ALSA problem?

Have you tried recording with Audacity? Or maybe something like Jokosher?