How To Adjust Your Audio On Linux ...

[@Usuarioepico]

hey one recomendation, this is a good video but it leaves out one of the most important points: changing the resolution of the audio and bit depth, so far NO gui app for those, and you gotta do some in the terminal to do that, it would be nice if u added that part in the video on how to change those parameters

[@janisuomela6929]

Anything above the default 24/48kHz is bloat

[@MichaelNROH]

​@@janisuomela6929Not for professionals. For average users yes

[@deadinside777]

@@janisuomela6929 Very often you hear this type of response when dealing in Linux. "No need for such an option", "users should not mess with that", "the defaults are good enough" and so on. A bit weird to be honest. You can change the resolution and bit debt usually with individual applications if they expose such functionality (and any self respecting "pro" application should). You can also change them system wide, but that depends on what your distro uses (pure ALSA, pulseaudio, pipewire, JACK, etc). Personally I always find it best to change such settings on a per-application basis to avoid issues. Most modern distros now have pipewire as a system wide sound server, which uses "sane defaults". You can change settings like bit debt (usually with a terminal or editing the proper files) but that can sometimes cause some applications to misbehave or have sound issues. In this case, I can sort of understand why the aversion on providing easily accesible toggles for the user.

[@mercuriete]

When using "pro audio" profile on pipewire... The sample rate Will be the same the whole graph. From the application to the Interface. And the internal bit depth is 32bit float until is converted to the Interface format (or from). So no gui needed. Just check pw-top if everything is ok. Example: you want to record at 192khz on audacity? Just set on audacity the samplerate and pipewire will configure the Interface to avoid resampling.

[@Usuarioepico]

@@mercuriete thx but are you sure pipewire does everything automatically? i dont want to sound harsh on linux but from my experience a lot of it has to be changed manually still

[@abdullahkg8803]

I've been using windows for my whole life, when I discovered your channel I fell in love with Linux, so I said how about I give it a shot, and it's been nearly a month of using Fedora with KDE and I love every detail about it 😁

[@Vinnie_PT]

Speaking of audio, i've noticed fedora locks the output at 48Khz, but most audio sources use 44Khz. This makes the audio sound "wrong" (distorted) if you have decent sound equipment. You can see the format of what is being played and what is being sent to the speakers with the pw-top command (press Q to exit it).

[@1pcfred]

I've been using Linux for 30 years now and I still think audio is a hot mess. But it's marginally better than it used to be.

[@paulgre3n]

Very good and useful video. Thank you Michael!

[@MichaelNROH]

Glad it was helpful

[@shmlorf]

You are one of the dudes that got me into linux/fedora and i can't thank you enough for it. Finally got a dual boot system working (primarily fedora but with windows if i want to play a game with anti cheat) and enjoyed my time so far. Keep up the good work man

[@RightHandedFridge]

Even after using Linux for 2 years now I still learn new things from your videos!

[@andrekz9138]

Thank you for explaining this to me. I was definitely trashing Logitech for not reaching out a helping hand, but this answered a lot of questions

[@joshplaysdrums2143]

anecdotally, ive been very happy with how my focusrite scarlett just worked with linux out of the box, no setup needed for me :)

[@MichaelNROH]

I have one too. They are great

[@IPnator]

If anyone like me has a SoundBlaster AE-7 sound card and is wondering why it sounds so strange and muffled on Linux, it's because the FX sound effects are enabled by default (don't ask me why). To disable them, open alsamixer, press F6 and select the sound card, use the arrow keys to navigate to the option that says "Enable 0" and press M to disable it. It took me years to figure this out. I thought the whole time that something about the driver was broken or misconfigured, but it turned out it wasn't and I was using the sound from Monitor forever because the connector on the motherboard was way too quiet (but that's another problem).

[@sebastianknapek1467]

as usually. good video. from the linux channels i watch your seems to be the most competent and nice to watch. btw.i have got SoundBlaster Z SE, got annoying problem recently with analog audio which disappears or crashes and i cannot restore it back (i guess it has something to do with recent kernel release). i tried Fedora and Arch both cases same behaviour. Now i back to OpenSuse and so far no problem.

[@_Mr_Megh_]

LOVE UR VIDEOS

[@MichaelNROH]

[@g9super]

Awesome video❤❤❤

[@MichaelNROH]

Thank you

[@rwx-zach]

The only audio related Linux issue I have had was Discord constantly auto-adjusting my Blue Yeti Nano input volume. Finally fixed it, by disabling the Discord "Advanced Voice Activity " setting.

[@NorthstriderGaming]

Yeah, audio has been quite an adventure. Just wanted to bump the sampling rate and it turned into a deep dive into pulse audio...

[@xard64]

Then there are corner cases like the PS5 controller where the haptics can be utilized via audio stream, which is kind of cool. What is not so cool is that when you plug in the controller for the first time Pulseaudio does recognize it as USB soundcard and switches to it automatically: It's confusing to hear a muffled audio output from coming from somewhere but you're not quite sure what just happened. This is where blacklisting comes in to play which I've done manually to the configuration files. I'm not sure if pavucontrol allows graphical management of preventing automatic switching, but that would be a nice option. Hopefully these kind of exceptions get mitigated in the future.

[@j_t_eklund]

You forgotten one option. For SPDIF passthrough I use mpv with: conversion filters for audio types that my 5.1 device does not support. Also bypass my pulseaudio/pipewire software by using a device specific config option that uses alsa. Muting the default audio in the system is recommended and not trying to play multiple tracks at once. I do this so my full library of mixed types of audio tracks seamlessly "works". It will work on any system, even without pulseaudio or pipewire.. 🌱

[@GraveRobot]

That's interesting.

[@birbychirpy5573]

1:21 What in tarnation ...

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

JamesDSP! It works well. It uses very little cpu.

[@disturb16]

you have saved me, thanks.

[@sanjunandi1627]

Vote for Gnome 47 Customisation 🎉

[@GabrielM01]

i always selected digital because my brain was digital better analog old, thanks for letting me know im wrong

[@MichaelNROH]

Well not wrong per say, but the other option might be better. It's quite confusing and information on this is often mixed

[@GabrielM01]

@@MichaelNROH i have a corsair void elite wifi, it has a usb dongle, i use it with pro audio because it has pro on the name, but i did feel it out of nowhere lower my volume way too much, on windows its okay but linux i had to use easy effects to boost the output maybe switching to analog would help, i might try it later

[@Linux4theMac]

Yeah, I definitely benefited from this video… Thanks Michael will be using analog output with my headset cans

[@ashleydsilva9284]

thank you !

[@MichaelNROH]

You're welcome

[@joebruno2675]

I wish there was a GUI way to change the sample rate. You have to edit the etc/pulse/daemon to set it. Also a way to turn off the suspend on idle which can cause popping on some systems. You need to edit default in the same directory. All as Root btw.

[@OtakuGunsoNY]

my audio is very small since switching to Linux ): It's safe to say only 2 out of my 4 speakers are even working so my audio is very small sounding and even a video like this I have to turn way up just to even hear it. It seems I have ALC245 Analog

[@brokegamer353]

You should make a video about how to use a custom icc profile for a monitor in linux . Especially in Wayland.

[@MichaelNROH]

I'm not sure if I have a way to test it though. Even if ICC profiles load, there is no way to verify it without some sort of tester

[@brokegamer353]

@MichaelNROH well i tired it in kde distro but didn't work. My lcd monitor is very bad when i switch to 180hz The colour just washed out. I did create an icc profile for that but in windows and it works well in windows but didn't work in linux.

[@IPnator]

@@MichaelNROH I would really appreciate a video about this, even if it doesn't work on Linux but just as I don't understand anything about colour profiles, who creates them, how they work, why we need them and you're so good at explaining things!

[@sneekylinux]

Nice video Michael, you are too young to remember when Audio was a pain up the backside in Linux!😅

[@jamesvandamme7786]

I do.

[@1pcfred]

I'd say audio is still a pain up the backside in Linux. It isn't quite the sharp pain it used to be though.

[@ConsolasEight]

I recently changed over to Linux. Linux didn't seem to know what to do with my 3.5mm jack headset: It treated the microphone and the headphones as a single audio source, so I got crossfeed. Windows handled this easily enough - plug it in, done. I got myself a USB headset instead and that sorted the issue right out of the box. Easy Filters is a great feature to have. One thing, though, is how to hide all the audio channels I simply don't use...? I've got my line-out speakers and then my headset and the microphone, but when I pull down the list it's got a lot of options - digital and analogue versions as well.

[@jamesvandamme7786]

What distro? Mint works great for me and I even use it on my 10 year old Chromebook.

[@ConsolasEight]

@jamesvandamme7786 Ubuntu 24.04. Not a major issue, as I said the USB headset sorted the sound problem.

[@siggevibes]

Great video, I'm considering maybe getting Linux, if I wasn't so damned lazy…

[@Python3526]

HI, I have been using Fedora for a year now. But in the latest update, Fedora 41, Xorg on Gnome desktop environment is removed, so i am using default GNOME, the problem is that Telegram's built-in notifications don't work on it? any way to fix or how to set xorg on gnome up again?

[@MichaelNROH]

I'm pretty sure Fedora still has the dependencies in their repos. Probably called gnome-x11 or something similar

[@Tracing0029]

I was extremely confused for a long time after coming from Windows because of the surround stuff, until I realised that I was essentially lied to 😂

[@MichaelNROH]

It's kinda weird on why they even want to sell it like that. Stereo is perfect for two speakers and of course everything gets mixed for that

[@shapelessed]

For me the issue is completely different. My 5.1 is just a single analog output, SPDIF port won't show up at all and instead I'm seeing an HDMI monitor. I use displayport......

[@beneficialhistory]

My headset has Dts feature. There is a physical button on headset. I can activate it with it. Since it does not need any application, it works on Linux. But the Dts feature doesnt work well. I dont use it

[@MichaelNROH]

Interesting. Not many seem to even have that

[@kartikroy5966]

My hp laptop has Bang & Olufsen audio support, whenever is install linux on it irrespective of the distro the audio is so worse compared to windows. It is not allowing me to completely switch to linux.

[@IPnator]

@@kartikroy5966 I have, or rather had, a similar problem with my sound card. The only problem was that some FX sound effects were enabled by default and I had to disable them in alsamixer. Maybe this is the same problem for you?

[@Mr_Thinks-0k]

Perfect timing for this video. Would have any ideas why I would need to unplug and replug my blueyeti, every-time I turn my PC on? I'm using CachyOS and cannot figure it out for the life of me

[@ArkboiX]

can you make a video about getting the global menu in GNOME? its a great feature and there are no GNOME 47 supported extensions for a global menu

[@beginOgami]

If i can't fix my audio, i just reinstall the whole OS...

[@ajmalmahtab6914]

Help! when i connect my bluetooth headphone it goes max volume in fedora 41

[@miguel0deltasq]

Yesterday i installed pop os for the first time in years and tried gaming... result: im moving from windows to linux. Now... when i tried to make work my 5.1 audio system, i almost quit linux. The dam thing does not work plug & play, but also, it responds very weirdly to configurations. After 1 whole day, i found someone who made a config for my very specific audio system and... it worked (never managed to configure it myself). However, the fact that i could not use the hardware i payed for was... i almost returned to windows after just 1 day. Thats the kind of thing that make people not want to use linux... and they are right.

[@BsetXOXO]

what if i want the output to come out of BOTH my bluetooth headset AND analog speakers at the same time?

[@BsetXOXO]

I was using Helvum for this - but over time the sound begins to distort and do weird stuff.

[@MichaelNROH]

Mh, maybe just using Wireplumber could solve the issue (there is a GUI for it as well), but I've never heard of issues with Helvum. Could be related to latencies if the headset talks back to the PC

[@talkysassis]

And still, I can't use the USB output of my ui24r on Linux because It only reads the master channels and not the other 30

[@creytax9802]

Thank you for that video. I love Linux and will leave Windows 10 after it runs out of support. Currently, I use it for my favorite game, BF2042. However, I will not buy games in the future that are not supported by Linux. I have one problem with Linux and sound. In Windows 10, I use a software called "Medi Mixer" to control my hardware, the Behringer X-Touch Mini (a MIDI controller), for the sound lines. This allows me to control the master volume, game volume, browser volume, and music volume separately. Is there a tool that can do this in Linux? I use Fedora KDE. Thanks for all your tips.

[@MichaelNROH]

Depends on how fine you want to tune it. The one I used once was "Helvum", whereas you can connect audio streams from or to applications or audio devices

[@creytax9802]

​@@MichaelNROH Oh, thanks. I will test it. What hardware do you use for controlling the different sound lines?

[@MichaelNROH]

@creytax9802 I don't really have anything for my headset. For my microphone and my videos, I do use the Focusrite Scralett 2i2, which is natively supported

[@creytax9802]

@@MichaelNROH Thank you very much. Let us Linux be the Nr. 1 Gaming OS.

[@ArkboiX]

i thought it was easy as the audio buttons!

[@__Brandon__]

Now I just got to figure out why my speakers hiss when coming out of idle. If I open up a Firefox tab that supports media is hisses for half a millisecond. Open a game and hiss. Leave a program that can produce audio and is never hisses untill all connections are closed and then the first new one hisses. I've just started leaving pavucontrol open and I don't experience the problem. Wish I could fix it properly

[@danielagustinmorales5696]

@@__Brandon__ In old achool amps, just sound in sound out, it's normal for it to output some noise on startup, it's just how it works. In conventional audio amps IC with more advanced digital features like in a car, there is a signal that you send to a pin of the IC to let it know that is connected to a speaker so it can start up silently. If it only happens on Linux maybe there is some part of the driver that is not addressing that, or maybe it just not that kind of IC so this does not apply lmao

[@__Brandon__]

@danielagustinmorales5696 it's an old Sony Blu-ray player/surround sound system. I'm sending the audio over HDMI 1, yes it's that old.

[@revan-e8x]

hi. how we can change sound on linux like on windows with myAsus app. there is several options for output sound. for example: voice, music, game...

[@MichaelNROH]

I'm not familiar with this app and what the profiles do (Nothing fits every headset / every speaker) Generally speaking you probably want to create similar profiles via EasyEffects (or PulseEffects) and save them. There are probably even pre-defined templates to download somewhere if you search for them

[@LinuxEvrenim]

can i use on my dolby digital speakers?

[@MichaelNROH]

It should with TrueHD, which is from Dolby

[@itamar1313]

I sure understand that we can improve sound quality and more. However, I've been trying to set my headset microphone to run the side-tone which is pretty simple to find and switch it on windows but not here on linux, right? Could anyone possibly help me out, please? 😀🙃

[@TheCongressman1]

I have two audio ports one front for headphones, and one rear of case for speakers. On windows I could combine those two devices so they both play at the same time. However on fedora I can only use my speakers when my headphones are unplugged. Is there a way I can get playback on both at the same time?

[@MichaelNROH]

You should be able to do that with "pavucontrol" (Volume Control), I've shown in the video in one of the tabs (I think the last one).

[@TheCongressman1]

@@MichaelNROH Hmm, I can select either 'headphones' or 'line out'. If both are plugged in, only one port will play at a time.

[@BsetXOXO]

@@TheCongressman1 got this same issue - would love to use both.

[@Techno_steve24]

Hey i enjoy your videos, it helped in setting up my Linux machine. Can u make a video on gaming setup on linux, (a video abt launchers like heroic, lutris, setiing up wine and dependencies etc)

[@MichaelNROH]

Heroic will get it's own video at some point. For the rest, I already did a couple of videos which cover Bottles for that

[@Leo-hf9wo]

i actually have a question my audio output keeps sending out a system notification sound every few minutes, i had to turn off system notification sounds on kde

[@MichaelNROH]

I would check if it occurs on one device or specific port. Sounds more like dust or something blocking the connection

[@ZaharielEl-Zurias]

is thera way to better control audio volume in gnome? it's either too loud or too quiet. im talking about junky way that it increases/decreases volume.

[@joebruno2675]

Pulse effects has some filters that can do auto volume like things if that helps?

[@milutinke]

Btw, does HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless work good on Linux? I have HyperX Cloud Orbit S, it's getting old and it's wired.

[@MichaelNROH]

Mine works just fine. I do recommend changing the ear cups to cloth ones however if you don't wanna go into equalizing (In general though, not just on Linux)

[@milutinke]

@@MichaelNROH Thanks

[@kanishkkumar3390]

i recently installed fedora41, the audio works fine most of the time but sometimes the audio starts to crack and i don't know the issue. it get fixed if i reboot the device but it is such a hassle. please tell me if there is a solution for this issue.

[@thehundaltech]

Which Distro you daily drive.

[@MichaelNROH]

Fedora

[@thehundaltech]

@MichaelNROH I was thinking of Debian 12, is Fedora that stable? I don't want annoying daily updates. What you suggest?

[@collin1558]

@@thehundaltech In my experience Fedora was extremely reliable. It is absolutely sufficient if you update like once per month, or even less often. Vanilla Fedora did not even crash once on me.

[@bigboydriver1021]

What? (new to linux)

[@Singlton]

Bluetooth headphone on Linux please 🙏

[@chronyk743]

Solution: Dac/Amp unit.

[@HAL_NOVEMILA]

I had trouble with my DAC, no matter the actual quality of the source the PC would pump the audio out at a sampling rate of 44.1 and there wasn't any setting to change that... I had to change some config file to fix it.

[@mercuriete]

Not want to sound fanboy but the main problem in Linux is users buying hardware with lack of support. On windows they have WHQL seal. And they pretend that WHQL hardware works on Linux. On Linux we have the ununtu certification program and others. The thumb rule in Linux is buy a usb audio class interface like scarlet 2i2 and enjoy. If motherboard vendors put usb class audio on internal jacks everything will be better.

[@IPnator]

@@mercuriete The problem is, that most of the users already had their hardware when they switched over, just like me.

[@Usuarioepico]

76 views in just 6 minutes. Channel on decline lol

[@kevinsteinman8967]

Hrmn, I'd say those are great numbers for only 6 minutes till KZbin pushes out the algorithm to more user feeds. I'm not a subscriber to his channel either but sometimes I like to hear what he has to say. I've seen a lot of channels get suppressed also and that could be happening.

[@Error8x8]

Just learn the terminal commands and stop being lazy

[@MuhammadSalman7236]

We got a master hacker here

[@CatFace8885]

I love the CLI, but this advice isn't good for Linux newcomers.

[@laminathith2530]

Please give resources regarding audio related cli command....