So this is an issue I’ve bee struggling with for sometime. I work form home and do hours of online conference calls. I have been trying to get an effective way to control my mic input levels, bet everything I have tried has not worked.
However my mic input volume still keeps changing. I need to have granular control over this so that I can do my conferences and not have the background noise disturb me. Any other solution welcome.
I think this is affecting me, as well… When I’m using my Jabra Elite 75t bugs and I speak, the input microphone “slider” moves steadily to “mute;” does that sound the same as what you’re experiencing?
If you use Zoom on fedora, in the newest version of the software you can deactivate the automatic mic level … maybe it is this what makes you trouble ? I installed it on Fedora 34 and first time the mic volume made what I wanted.
Ok maybe i need to wait for fedora 34, as I need a stable system, its been a huge pain though. I guess my wife and the dog will have to be banished to the back room, thats going to cost me
Thanks for the Zoom setting suggestion; I hadn’t thought about that being part of the problem. I installed and shifted over to pipewire last night, so we’ll see if those two items coupled solve things, as I have a conference call this afternoon.
From my early testing is still looks like the mic auto adjust with pipewire as well. It seems amazing to me that such a simple things is still broken on fedora.
Ok, so Pipewire suffers the exact same issue as Pulseaudio when it comes to input volumes. I’m wondering if anyone knows of any other work around’s or maybe how the input recording volumes could be manually controlled through a script?
I’m not so sure if it is really fedora who make this adjustments of volume. As mentioned above it can be an application. In my case it was Zoom. But in the settings of zoom i could deactivate it !
I think you will find that it is the Conferencing software that is adjusting the mic gain, and most of the popular apps do it whether you want them to or not. I have tried finding a way to disable it on Zoom, Teams, Blue Jeans etc and none of them seem to allow it and each app does it (although I haven’t tried Teams or Zoom in the last 3 months).