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krypt

Member

Registered: 2016-05-15

Posts: 26

Asus TUF15 Extremely Loud Microphone Input

Hi,

I just installed Arch on my Asus Tuf 15 laptop. Everything is ok except the mic input. The sound is extremely loud. Currently I can only use the mic when I set the level to 10% in pavucontrol and 60% percent in discord. Any higher and clipping starts.

╰─ lspci | grep Audio

06:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller

╰─ pacman -Ss pulse | grep installed

extra/libcanberra 0.30+2+gc0620e4-5 [installed]
extra/libpulse 15.0-4 [installed]
extra/pavucontrol 1:5.0-1 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio 15.0-4 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.6-3 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-bluetooth 15.0-4 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-equalizer 15.0-4 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-jack 15.0-4 [installed]
extra/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin 0.4.3-2 (xfce4-goodies) [installed]

╰─ pacman -Ss alsa | grep installed
extra/alsa-lib 1.2.6.1-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-plugins 1:1.2.6-3 [installed]
extra/alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.6.3-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-utils 1.2.6-1 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.6-3 [installed]

╰─ amixer

Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 6286 [10%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 6286 [10%] [on]

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,738

Re: Asus TUF15 Extremely Loud Microphone Input

look at the output of

amixer -c0

or whatever card is the correct index (check arecord -l) is and lower a potentially activated mic boost.

Last edited by V1del (2022-04-01 08:28:18)

krypt

Member

Registered: 2016-05-15

Posts: 26

Re: Asus TUF15 Extremely Loud Microphone Input

look at the output of

amixer -c0

or whatever card is the correct index (check arecord -l) is and lower a potentially activated mic boost.

Thank you V1del! However, micboost values are all set 0 in the output below. Am I missing something?

╰─ amixer -c2

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 63
  Front Left: Capture 21 [33%] [-1.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 21 [33%] [-1.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Headset Mic',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Headset Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]