Wired microphone static in obs

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Im on kde plasma and when i try to use a wired external microphone it makes a loud static its mostly on the left ear but its still on the right ear the static blocks all other noise im using a dell 7440 optiplex AIO and ive updated kde plasma

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You will usually find more help providing details about your system via the output of

inxi -zv8

And paste it in a code block.

That said, I’ve fixed a lot of microphone/line-in problems directly through ALSA.

Finding your card number/ID:

alsactl info

And for me it’s:

alsamixer --card=2

From there you can use arrow keys to modify levels, F1 for help.

Gain will often introduce static, and you can modify left/right channels separately; if your chipset/driver supports it.

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