I've spent all yesterday night and today trying to fix this, but people just say get pipewire but I already got it and it still sounds so bad
#How to make sound sound better? (bose qc45)
eager summit
celest oar
Describe how it sounds bad
eager summit
It sounds like a volcano. No human voice detectable
eager summit
Yes like really low quality
And even when I dont get any audio input my headset sounds weird in the backgroud
celest oar
Bluetooth audio devices have to lower the quality of audio going to the device when making calls to free up bandwidth to send audio in the other direction. It could be stuck in that mode
What have you tried to fix it?
celest oar
It doesn't matter what you're using the microphone for. If it needs to send data from the device it has to use that low quality mode
What have you tried to fix it?
eager summit
I have tried installing pipwire
celest oar
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
eager summit
Yes
covert pecan
Did the microphone happen to need special drivers on windows?
eager summit
Yes scarlett driver was created when I got the mic
covert pecan
That may or may not be the issue then
You can look up if your mic works on Linux on Google. Chances are that it isn't supported because big companies don't care about us Linux users
It may work if you do some wine trickery and use some windows recording software instead
Otherwise you'd have to make a windows VM for recording
eager summit
Oki btw I have a question. Whenever I get errors in arch i know that I need to RTFM. But when I do on archwiki, it all just looks so confusing and I can't understand any of it. That's why I ask here a bunch
covert pecan
It's fine
Do you happen to have any other cheap microphones just to see if those work?
If no microphones work at all then we'll know if you've setup something wrong
If it's just this mic in particular then it's a driver issue
eager summit
If no microphones work at all then we'll know if you've setup something wrong
Its the only one I have and it was perfect
covert pecan
Its the only one I have and it was perfect
Well this is probably a kind of stupid suggestion but maybe you could try launching up some live iso of a beginner friendly distro with drivers setup to see if it works there? No need to install it to your drive, just use the live USB and see if the mic works
Linux mint could work for example
If it works there then you are missing some package in arch
That's as much as I can help you honestly. I've only ever used cheap generic mics so no extra configuration was required
eager summit
That's as much as I can help you honestly. I've only ever used cheap generic mic...
Yeah but it took me weeks to setup arch and I dont wanna remove all that progress 😦
covert pecan
As I said live isos do not need installation
They run from the USB
No damage is done to your arch installation unless you run the installer program
And since Linux is so modular you can basically use it like normal to test if your hardware works before doing permanent damage to your system
eager summit
So youre saying i can choose between mint and arch at startup?
If i get mint in the first place
covert pecan
So youre saying i can choose between mint and arch at startup?
Yes
Your BIOS/UEFI has a key (usually F12) that lets you choose which drive to boot from at startup
If you have a USB plugged in it will show up
Just select it, boot it and you'll be in a desktop environment
Don't click on the install program of course because that's not what you want right now
Open up the start menu and find the installed audio recording software
See if it works
Then reboot
And you'll be back in arch Linux
Nothing will happen to your system unless you click on Install
You can look up some Linux mint installation on YouTube to see what I mean
eager summit
Can i sync the files between the distros?
covert pecan
Yes actually if you want to install Linux mint and dual boot
Dual booting only happens if you decide to install Linux mint though
If you don't want to install it again you don't have to. What you need to do is just see if your microphone is detected
vague jackal
AFAIK you can't have high quality codec with audio input simultaneously, using a bluetooth profile
eager summit
Also what bluetooth should I use? I currently have the default sddm bluetooth manager aswell as the blueman package. Which one of those should I stick with?
eager summit
Sddm shouldn't have a Bluetooth manager
But in my system preferences there is a bluetooth option
covert pecan
But in my system preferences there is a bluetooth option
that doesn't have anything to do with sddm