Help audio quality

[imcooler211]

Im really new and my speakers and mic are set to 16bit quality and i have no idea how to change it to 24bit. Thank you!

[mrdc76]

You can modify those settings in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. That's not necessary however, you can't hear the difference between 16 and 24 bit output anyway.

[imcooler211]

Okay well the quality isnt what it was in windows and my biggest issue is my mic quality. My voice out put is really high pitched .
any ideas ?

Also the command you gave me was not found even when i used "sudo".

[mrdc76]

I don't know what might cause your voice to be really high pitched, but changing output from 16 to 24 bits is not going to solve it.

That was not a command but a settings file that can be edited with any text editor.

[NM5TF]

have you tried an equalizer yet ???

I use PulseAudio Equalizer.....try this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-wv/pulseaudio-equalizer-ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer

it comes with lots of preset configurations...or you can customize it as you wish & save it as default...or change it on the fly...

tommy

[imcooler211]

I don't know what might cause your voice to be really high pitched, but changing output from 16 to 24 bits is not going to solve it.

That was not a command but a settings file that can be edited with any text editor.

Okay I figured it wasn't a command after it didn't work so I searched for it and I had no result. I even scowered my system files to no avail.


S.O.S. I just want to be able to chat in-game :{

have you tried an equalizer yet ???

I use PulseAudio Equalizer.....try this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-wv/pulseaudio-equalizer-ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer

it comes with lots of preset configurations...or you can customize it as you wish & save it as default...or change it on the fly...

tommy

Okay so I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and those updates were for older os' apparently. Anyways, I installed the equalizer. However, I have no idea how to open it. Please help. I'm extremely new to this.

[NM5TF]

have you looked in the menu for something like "multimedia" or "sound" in the applications section....

since I don't have Ubuntu on this box, I don't know what it's called...but you should find something similar...

or....open a terminal & type

pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk

tommy

[imcooler211]

have you looked in the menu for something like "multimedia" or "sound" in the applications section....

since I don't have Ubuntu on this box, I don't know what it's called...but you should find something similar...

or....open a terminal & type

pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk

tommy

alexander@alexander-desktop:~$ pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk
pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk: command not found


This is what it came up with.

So I got this far finally!

default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-format = s24le
; alternate-sample-rate = 192000
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right

Nothing has changed though. My voice is still distorted. I also can't get the first "default-sample-format" line to save as s24le.
In windows my headset works fine. Initially it'll start at 48khz and my voice will be distored like it is in linux. However, once I change it to 192khz, my voice becomse undistorted.
Anyways to the point, I figured if I could get this changed in linux it'd make my mic clear again.

Any ideas?


Thank you for your time and helps guys! I am really enjoying Linux, but this is really disheartening

[1fallen]

Anyways, I installed the equalizer. However, I have no idea how to open it. Please help. I'm extremely new to this.

To open the EQ gui:

qpaeq

If you have not already set this up you also need to add this to "/etc/pulse/default.pa"

load-module module-equalizer-sink
load-module module-dbus-protocol

I use nano to do that via:

sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

You can just add the lines I mention at the bottom, save and close.
Then just run:

pulseaudio -k & pulseaudio -d

now it will show you the interface to edit and save as a preset.

[speartip]

Just to step back a bit, at install did you install all the necessary codecs?
If not then:

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

See if that helps.