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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #1085402
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1085402

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Luke Marsden (v-luke) wrote :

This was also affecting me, causing very loud hissing on Skype calls.

The change in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1085402/comments/6 fixes it for me, that is, in /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-mic.conf in the "[Element Mic Boost]" section, change "volume = merge" to "volume = zero" and restart Pulseaudio ("sudo pkill pulseaudio") then restart Skype.

I also had to manually set the Mic Boost values to zero in alsamixer (F6, change card, "HDA Intel PCH").