disable auto mic gain?

[adelattre]

I'm trying to use a Logitech H530 usb headset on my Thinkpad Edge13 running ubuntu 12.04 64 bit, and the automatic mic gain keeps pushing the mic volume to 100% [so, the volume is WAY too loud and picks up lots of background noise etc], even as I've turned it down in alsamixer and pulseaudio. I've searched, but been unable to find anything about how to disable the auto mic gain or otherwise fix this problem.
sound card is:
andre@andre-ThinkPad-Edge:~$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.

[adelattre]

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[jmfal]

Welcome to Ubuntu

Try installing pulse audio volume control:

 sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

And to open

 pavucontrol

This should give you an option for your mic.

[adelattre]

Welcome to Ubuntu

Try installing pulse audio volume control:

 sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

And to open

 pavucontrol

This should give you an option for your mic.

Thanks for your reply. What I meant by having tried to adjust the mic gain in 'pulseaudio' in my original post is just what you've suggested - pulse audio control. It does indeed give me an option to regulate the mic level, but after I've done that, it automatically pushes the level back up to 100% [not immediately, but over about 20-30 seconds]. That is why I'm looking for some way to disable the auto mic gain feature.
Any advice on doing that would be greatly appeciated

[jmfal]

Open alsamixer
press F5
look for mic boost
and turn off (press m or M)
Leave alsamixer open
check if problem solved
if so
Press esc key
at command prompt enter

 sudo alsactl store

This will save alsamixer settings

[jmfal]

Take a look at this, go down to screenshots
http://askubuntu.com/questions/13181...rking-on-12-04

[adelattre]

Open alsamixer
press F5
look for mic boost
and turn off (press m or M)
Leave alsamixer open
check if problem solved
if so
Press esc key
at command prompt enter

 sudo alsactl store

This will save alsamixer settings

thanks for your continued effort to help me solve this.
Although I feel that I've seen a 'mic boost' option in alsamixer before, there is not one there now. The tabs in alsamixer are:
Master
<Headphone>
Speaker
PCM
S/PDIF
Beep
Capture
Auto-Mut
Internal
<Internal>

so, I'm not sure if that is a problem, or one of the above is the functional equivalent of 'mic boost'.

[adelattre]

Take a look at this, go down to screenshots
http://askubuntu.com/questions/13181...rking-on-12-04

The screen shots that I see are of Pulseaudio Volume Control, and I've used that and can lower the headset mic input volume, but then as I've described it pushes itself back up to 100% - I can watch it happening with the PVC panel still open.

I have tried changing the level and then using the 'sudo alsactl store', but it still pushes the volume back up to 100% over a 20-30 second period [eg not all at once but gradually].

[jmfal]

Are you using skype or a similar app?

In the alsamixer press F5 and use right arrow key , sometimes there are controls farther to the right off screen.
turn capture down a little bit.

[adelattre]

Are you using skype or a similar app?

In the alsamixer press F5 and use right arrow key , sometimes there are controls farther to the right off screen.
turn capture down a little bit.

I'm making calls via gchat/googleplus.
those are all of the options, even far to the right, off of the screen, when I press f5.
There is the option to press f6, which lets me select the sound card, and there is an option for my headset "Logitech USB Headset", and if I press that I get 3 tabs: Speaker, <mic>, mic
the middle tab "<mic> is muted, and the "mic" tab controls the mic volume, and again I can set it low, but it automatically pushes it gradually back up to 100% again.

also, changing the level for "capture" doesn't change the level of mic input volume [back in the f5 menu]