Whoops, I forgot to include information on how to load it. Here are the relevant sections from my default.pa: .ifexists module-dbus-protocol.so load-module module-dbus-protocol .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix ... . ifexists module-gconf.so .nofail load-module module-gconf .fail .endif load-module module-equalizer-sink sink_name=equalized master=alsa_output.pci_8086_284b_sound_card_0.analog-stereo set-default-sink equalized Of course you will probably need to change the master sink line to whatever your master sink is (I discover mine from paman). If you want to disable tsched, you will need to find your sink discovery module (hal/udev) and append tsched=0 to the loading line. -Jason