My microphone has constant crackling noise. This problem seems to be very common, but none of the solutions worked for me. My pulseaudio automatically starts after I pulseaudio -k
even though autospawn was marked as no. Therefore I couldn’t close my pulseaudio and thought maybe settings didn’t apply, but restarting the pc didn’t work and I assume that restarts pulseaudio. Issue doesn’t persist in Windows 10.
And some system information
System: Host: eren-gl638rc Kernel: 5.10.42-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GL63 8RC v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16P6 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16P6IMS.109
date: 05/22/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 40.4 Wh (98.8%) condition: 40.9/43.2 Wh (94.6%)
CPU: Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 9 MiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 465.31
Device-3: Acer HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.42-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: 96:57:91:21:b2:a5
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 30:9c:23:8e:f3:a2
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: see --recommends
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.48 TiB used: 35.05 GiB (2.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: RBUSNS8180S3128GJ size: 119.24 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Portable SSD T5 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24.44 GiB used: 13.5 GiB (55.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc4
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 1.5 MiB (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdc3
ID-3: /home size: 84.59 GiB used: 7.49 GiB (8.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc5
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sdc2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 292 Uptime: 29m Memory: 15.48 GiB used: 3.24 GiB (20.9%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.04
1 sink(s) available.
* index: 0
name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
state: RUNNING
suspend cause: (none)
priority: 9039
volume: front-left: 40720 / 62% / -12,40 dB, front-right: 40720 / 62% / -12,40 dB
balance 0,00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 100,85 ms
max request: 18 KiB
max rewind: 18 KiB
monitor source: 0
sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
used by: 1
linked by: 1
fixed latency: 100,00 ms
card: 0 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3>
module: 6
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "ALC892 Analog"
alsa.id = "ALC892 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xa4310000 irq 134"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "a348"
device.product.name = "Cannon Lake PCH cAVS"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "19200"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "4800"
device.access_mode = "mmap"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
ports:
analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
active port: <analog-output-headphones>
Some solutions I tried:
Static noise in microphone recording
Microphone crackling with Realtek ALC892
[solved] Crackling sound
Constant static sound coming from input device, even when microphone is muted