Microphone volume very low when routed through Pulseaudio

[deano_ferrari]

@ajohnw

I can only mention what I found deano. Alsa mixer making no difference to sound levels at all other than when the vol is set to zero it muted it. It was driving me nuts trying to track down my particular problem - all of those grunts rather than clean sound all of the time. Pavucontrol was mentioned in another thread. Once I installed that things made more sense. All of the vol controls worked and the 2ndry one tracked phonon either way. It could be adjust in pavucontrol or phonon and the both matched which ever was used.

I wasn’t referring to the ALSA mixer, just where it sits with respect to PA. I tend to install pavucontrol as a matter of course since it provides an easy way to configure sources, sinks and respective levels.

[oldcpu]

With so much time having gone by, another look at the output of the alsa-info.sh script might be useful to see if it yields any hints.

Else this could be bug reporting territory.
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