Comment 25 for bug 153119

Mary, this might be overly simplistic, but I had what sounds like a similar problem after upping the capture levels in alsamixer. It sounded like I was making my test voice recordings while standing outside in a high wind.

The resolution was simply moving the mic half an arm's length away from my mouth. With Feisty, I had to press my microphone into my mouth in order to get people to hear me at all on Skype, and I was still doing this. Holding the mic 8 inches from my mouth results in exceptional recording quality. Hope this helps.