#microphone only outputting white noise

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agile cave
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i am on arch
i am using steelserias arctis 1 wired
i can only use the motherboard jacks because i broke the frontpanel ones
i use pipewire if thats relevant
tried to use the headphone on the mic slot it atleast registered some sounds
tried the headphone on other devices it works

flint basin
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You tried to plug in your headphones into the mic slot?

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Show us the input tab in pavucontrol?

agile cave
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ofc

flint basin
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Does that status bar jump at all when you use the mic? And that volume is low, what if you crank it back to 100?

agile cave
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Its just white noise

agile cave
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cranking it back up to 100 doesnt work aswell

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it worked once on steams voice chat but didnt work afterwards

flint basin
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photo of the physical connections?

agile cave
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uh sure

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i dont get how it could be useful tho

flint basin
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just checking layer 1 before I start messing with software

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in alsamixer, press F4, and show me that?

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lets make sure the input there is active

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you might have to press f6 and change the device you're looking at

agile cave
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hold on i unpluged the mic

flint basin
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Could be capture one from that deleted screenshot

agile cave
flint basin
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yeah, anything from turning up capture 1?

agile cave
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let me check

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nothing

flint basin
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oh, wait, rear mic way to the right

agile cave
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nope didnt work

flint basin
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and your mic doesn't have an inline mute that's toggled on right now?

agile cave
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if you mean by inline mute the switch on the headphones

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no

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its should be working rn

flint basin
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in pavucontrol in the configuration tab, does your analog device show Duplex, or Output only?

agile cave
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duplex

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i can configure it tho

flint basin
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I'm still looking at the wiki for a minute

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Are you using wireplumber to manage pipewire, or did you just raw dog install pipewire?

agile cave
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i didnt add anything after the archinstall

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let me check if i have wireplumber

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seems i do

flint basin
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k

agile cave
agile cave
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it seems suspended when i do pactl list sources

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hm

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State: IDLE
Name: alsa_input.pci-0000_0c_00.4.analog-stereo
Description: Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller Analog Stereo
Driver: PipeWire
Sample Specification: s32le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 4294967295
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 0 / 0% / -inf dB, front-right: 18350 / 28% / -33.17 dB
balance 1.00
Base Volume: 6554 / 10% / -60.00 dB

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i fucked it up

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i ran "pactl set-source-volume alsa_input.pci-0000_0c_00.4.analog-stereo 0 6554"

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uh

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nvm suspended wasnt the issue