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Cacone

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Registered: 2023-09-13

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[SOLVED] Output audio is sent to input as well

I've just installed Arch with pipewire and the first issue I've run into is that the Output audio from applications gets sent into my microphone alongside my voice. This causes issues when I'm in voice chats. I've checked the KDE Plasma audio panel and pavucontrol but I couldn't find the source of the issue in both cases.

Last edited by Cacone (2023-09-14 15:13:23)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Output audio is sent to input as well

Technically there's a monitor source, but you'd have to jump through some intentional hoops to play from that. More likely your output has a loopback control enabled.

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aplay -lL
arecord -lL
amixer -c0 #Or whichever card index your microphone is used from
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks
pactl list sources
#During active reproduction
pactl list sink-inputs
pactl list source-outputs
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Last edited by V1del (2023-09-13 20:59:08)

Cacone

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Re: [SOLVED] Output audio is sent to input as well

Hello, sorry in advance for my slow reply. Here you go: https://pastebin.com/Z6DT7TEH

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Output audio is sent to input as well

Nothing sticking out, setup wise everything is as it should be. How sure are you that it's sent as well, and not just picked up from the speakers or so? Try lowering the Mic boost:

amixer -c0 set 'Mic Boost',0 0 0

other than that, something that can sometimes happen here that the mic detection doesn't work properly and the internal mic still recording despite not needing to, one thing you could try in that case is e.g a model hack like  /etc/modprone.d/10-hopefullyFixMicInput.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi

and reboot.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Output audio is sent to input as well

Or try headphones…

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Cacone

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Registered: 2023-09-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Output audio is sent to input as well

How sure are you that it's sent as well, and not just picked up from the speakers or so?

My bad, I'm ashamed of this. I double checked it and it really is my trash headset that picks up the output. Somewhat weird that I didn't have this issue until recently as I've had this headset for a while now but oh well.

other than that, something that can sometimes happen here that the mic detection doesn't work properly and the internal mic still recording despite not needing to, one thing you could try in that case is e.g a model hack like  /etc/modprobe.d/10-hopefullyFixMicInput.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi

and reboot.

I also tried this and for whatever reason it made the situation worse. Now if I mute my headset the microphone will actually send whatever output it would normally pick up, although it sounds choppy. I'll just switch back to normal since I'm 99% sure that wasn't the problem.