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NovaViper

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Registered: 2022-01-22

Posts: 22

Microphone has alot of static with Pipewire

Hey guys, I'm trying to fix my laptop microphone, it for some reason has a ton of static noise to it (to the point it's completely unusable) and I can't find any guides on how to enable echo cancellation in Pipewire (when I was using PulseAudio I simply enabled that feature and it solved the problem), and I never had this issue before on Windows 10. Anyone know how I can fix the static issue on Pipewire?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Microphone has alot of static with Pipewire

Pipewire implements the echo-cancel module in the same way pulse does, you should be able to load it just the same with pactl, otherwise adjust and create a config snippet: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ncellation

Other than that what can often lead to static is an overdriven micboost, check your actual mixers with e.g.

alsamixer -c0

and lower a mic boost if one is present.