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obamalasagna

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Registered: 2024-04-25

Posts: 2

Unable to disable mic playback

My mic has randomly started playing back all input and I'm unable to disable it. Any suggestions on how to fix?

I'm using a wireless corsair CS50.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,230

Re: Unable to disable mic playback

If it's literally the mic then chances are this is a distinct button on the headset. Is this BT or a USB dongle? Chances are the two ALSA commands at the top don't give you info if it's a BT headset but that is normal
But in any case

aplay -l
amixer -c0 #Replace the 0 with the correct index as given by the aplay -l command
pactl list cards
pactl list sources
pactl list source-outputs

during a faulty recording attempt.

obamalasagna

Member

Registered: 2024-04-25

Posts: 2

Re: Unable to disable mic playback

If it's literally the mic then chances are this is a distinct button on the headset. Is this BT or a USB dongle? Chances are the two ALSA commands at the top don't give you info if it's a BT headset but that is normal
But in any case

aplay -l
amixer -c0 #Replace the 0 with the correct index as given by the aplay -l command
pactl list cards
pactl list sources
pactl list source-outputs

during a faulty recording attempt.

It's a USB dongle the playback still happens when plugged directly into my desktop, never had this issue while on windows.

Simple mixer control 'Headset',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume cvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 23 Capture 0 - 36
Mono: Playback 12 [52%] [-18.00dB] [on] Capture 36 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headset',1
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 32
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 16 [50%] [-32.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 16 [50%] [-32.00dB] [on]