tap/Soundflower — Issue #18: loopback volume low in 1.6.x
Author: paleozogt
Created: 2012-02-10 00:17:53+00:00
State: open

Something seems to have happened to the volume between SoundFlower 1.5.x and 1.6.x. The volume is substantially lower in 1.6.x.

To show this behavior:
* loopback SoundFlower onto itself
* use Audacity to record
* use the 'say' tool to generate some audio into the loopback
You can see in Audacity that the waveform in 1.6.2 is quite a bit quieter than in 1.5.2.

I've documented this behavior on Mac OS X 10.6.8 in some screencasts:
* SoundFlower v1.5.2:http://www.screencast.com/t/wfrjXDdrql
* SoundFlower v1.6.2: http://www.screencast.com/t/X9U6nggt

You can hear the loopback audio as recorded in these videos here (they are base64-encoded WAVs):
* https://gist.github.com/1784617