Microphone feedback loop with PulseAudio

Posted on Tue 06 October 2015 in Linux

Moving to PulseAudio is pretty painless. Just need to install the package and edit /etc/pulse/client.conf to have:

autospawn = yes

One issue I did have was I kept hearing my microphone input in my headphones using a USB headset.
Fixing this was quite simple - in alsamixer, use F6 to select the 'sound card' and select your headset.
Mute the 'Playback' for the microphone while leaving the capture options on.

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