On 02/10/2015 02:12 AM, David Henningsson wrote: > Are you sure that the problem is with the mic and not with the laptop? Yes, because the problem did not occur with older earbuds (that broke) and the internal microphone is working fine too. Laptop is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd gen, fwiw. > PulseAudio does not currently have any noise reduction to filter out > static. In that case I suppose I'll investigate ways to keep using the internal microphone even when headphones with a mike are plugged in. I could not get that to work, but perhaps I didn't try hard enough. Thanks, -C.