> > I'm trying to get the following to work: There's a SoundBlaster Live > (emu10k1) soundcard in my PC and the bass is set to 90%. This causes a > lot of audio distortion on the audio output because Pulseaudio always > sets the front volume to 100 % (and keeps resetting it to that value). > If I set it down to ~50 %, there are no issues. > > What I'd like to do now is forcing Pulseaudio to leave my front audio > volume where I set it. I've consulted this page: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes/ > > There it says I should add the "control=" parameter to module-alsa-sink, > so I added this to my configuration: > > load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0 control=PCM > > Now I have a second sink for the soundcard, but the sound is still > cracking and the front volume setting doesn't have any impact on the > sound anymore. > > Does anyone have a solution for this? The tone controls treble/bass of SB Live have -12dB atten to +12dB gain , this mean that you need to keep those DSP volume controls to -12dB if you set bass to maximun -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20151107/d7c78749/attachment.html>