I am having an issue with my system’s audio being transmitted through the microphone channel on my headset. This persists even if my mic is physically muted (flip-to-mute). This issue has been confirmed to happen across multiple headsets, and it can be reproduced no matter what recording software is used. I’ve tried googling what to do but apparently nobody has had this issue before (or worded it in the same way I have). I have absolutely no idea where to start on fixing this. Please help.
I installed Manjaro days ago and have the same problem. Did you find any solution?
I have a Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series] as soundcard and no clue to solve that problem. Every sound is still played through the “microphone-channel”.
Creative had a patented option in their old soundcards called ‘What U Hear’ that would allow any audio capture or playback to be mixed and recorded. and most of it was turned on by default
Win7 and later has a similar option of an audio capture recording ‘Stereo Mix’, usually turned off by default because it does not work with some audio devices
Some Realtek audio codecs have a similar feature for ‘loopack mixing’ to monitor audio capture inputs, but they are usually turned off by default
for an X-Fi card, ALSA sound settings has 3 audio capture devices - Mic, Line and IEC958 (S/PDIF)
Each capture device has a capture control for recording,
and an audio playback control for monitoring audio
To turn off the audio monitoring you can use ALSA mixer controls in terminal
alsamixer --view=Playback
Press F6 and select the X-Fi card
Arrow keys ←→ to find the control for MIC
and M to mute the control - so it is shown as [MM] in mixer
When settings are to your liking, exit alsamixer and save ALSA settings