PulseAudio Equalizer its not working (for me) after recent update

[johnnywilly16]

I’m having problems with the app, PulseAudio Equalizer (pulse-audio-equalizer-ladspa) v3.0.2-6,.
And I don’t know how to fix it was working perfectly and suddenly it stopped, when I press the button to turn on and close the program it automatically turns off. Could anyone help me? If I wasn’t specific with the problem forgive me I’m new on manjaro forum/community and forgive my English, as you try to help me I’ll provide more system information and details

[cscs]

@johnnywilly16

pulse-audio-equalizer-ladspa

No such package exists in the repos or the AUR … whered you get it?
(Note: nor does pulse-audio-equalizer …)

Ah,

But if I change to pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa it does exist.

First things first … are you up to date?

sudo pacman -Syu

[johnnywilly16]

yeah im up to date, i just found that app on official repositories and it was working…

[cscs]

Well … you accidentally included some extra information that is useful…

You have pipewire packages installed … so … is that what you are using?
Why trying to use a pulseaudio equalizer then ?

Please verify … maybe inxi -Azy

[johnnywilly16]

Actually I don’t know what I’m using I just wanted to find an equalizer that would improve the sound quality and make it louder, sorry for the useless information.

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-3: Logitech G435 Wireless Gaming Headset
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
  Device-4: Fifine Microphone driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.7-4-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active

[cscs]

The information was not useless … it was just provided by accident.
Your sound server is not pulseaudio … it is pipewire.

You should ditch whatever you have been trying to do and investigate pipewire post-audio processing or equalizers.

You probably want easyeffects.

Theres also some guides on here about it somewhere …

[How To] Make Linux sound GREAT!

Make Linux sound GREAT!!! [Linux PipeWire easyeffects setup] Pipewire is a new audio processing engine in Linux designed to be a drop in replacement for PulseAudio. PipeWire is the future of Linux audio, it is low latency, handles Bluetooth audio much better than PulseAudio, has Flatpak and Wayland support, real-time multimedia processing and so on. If you are running PulsAudio and want to switch to PipeWire, Manjaro provides manjaro-pipewire, package that makes it very easy to do so. Install…

[HowTo] Enhance your Linux audio with EasyEffects or PulseEffects Legacy

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Why? Who is this for?

Click to expand

If you find your audio on Linux doesn’t have enough of a kick to it, this is probably for you. This guide is made for complete beginners to tuning their audio. (You don’t even need to know how to configure an equalizer.) Although you could just use a simple equalizer like qpaeq or pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa For those of us who want something with a little more options, we have EasyEffects, formerly known as PulseEffects. Which unlike t…

(note I cant attest to those … but they should give you an idea of how to do the things)

[johnnywilly16]

I’ll follow your tutorial, but what if I switch to Pulse Audio? Which one is better? Or do you think I should avoid trouble and stay with pipeware ?

[cscs]

pipewire is newer, less of a mess, less resource hungry, and required for some things like Flatpak audio support, certain types of recording, etc.

pulseaudio is legacy … and unless you have some specific reason to do so you should not go switching pipewire for it.

PS.
Neither of those are my tutorials. I simply included them as examples of how to configure effects for pipewire. For even more information see the archwiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

[johnnywilly16]

thank you so much for the help