With the latest stable versions of the audio stack on openSUSE Tumbleweed I have also observed mismatches between PA and ALSA with my Thinkpad T530. In the case of my internal integrated mic Capture level, 100% in `alsamixer` corresponds to only ~33% in the `pavucontrol` Input Devices tab. Anything beyond ~33% in `pavucontrol` starts enabling mic overboost in `alsamixer`, which causes distortion. _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss