Bookmem Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Seems there are a multitude of ways to boost the bass volume, but I want to do the opposite. I'm 83 and have hearing loss and have problems hearing the dialog when streaming. If I turn the volume up on either speaker or headphones the bass distorts the dialog so that I can't understand what's being said. I can't find a mixer for Linux Mint that allows me to increase the volume for freqs just in the speech range, about 400 to 3000 Hz. Anybody know of a way to do this? Edited July 21, 2022 by Bookmem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Bookmem....I'm not sure if this would be of any help but it may be a start. PulseEffects Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookmem Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 25 minutes ago, wa4chq said: Bookmem....I'm not sure if this would be of any help but it may be a start. PulseEffects Hmmmm!! I install it but when I run it, the Equalizer won't turn on. Do I have to install something else to get that to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 I'm not sure. I've not used it. Maybe there's something in the man pages or even on YouTube....everything you ever wanted to know is on YT. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Same as wa4chq, I have no experience with it but perhaps.. https://askubuntu.com/questions/138611/how-to-change-audio-bit-depth-and-sampling-rate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 6 hours ago, Bookmem said: Hmmmm!! I install it but when I run it, the Equalizer won't turn on. Do I have to install something else to get that to work? Do you have the "Recommends" installed? $ apt depends pulseeffects |grep Recommends Recommends: calf-plugins (>= 0.90.0) Recommends: gstreamer1.0-autogain-pulseeffects Recommends: gstreamer1.0-convolver-pulseeffects Recommends: gstreamer1.0-crystalizer-pulseeffects Recommends: liblilv-0-0 |Recommends: lsp-plugins-lv2 (>= 1.1.24~) Recommends: lsp-plugins (>= 1.1.24~) Recommends: rubberband-ladspa Recommends: zam-plugins I think it's the lsp-plugins that supply the equalizer. Are you using MX Linux by any chance? They disable installing recommends and I have had several arguments with MX devs as it's a stupid idea. Years ago some packagers added useless recommends to their packages but these days most recommends are sane and required for full functionality. Debian apt itself installs recommends by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookmem Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 2 hours ago, sunrat said: Do you have the "Recommends" installed? $ apt depends pulseeffects |grep Recommends Recommends: calf-plugins (>= 0.90.0) Recommends: gstreamer1.0-autogain-pulseeffects Recommends: gstreamer1.0-convolver-pulseeffects Recommends: gstreamer1.0-crystalizer-pulseeffects Recommends: liblilv-0-0 |Recommends: lsp-plugins-lv2 (>= 1.1.24~) Recommends: lsp-plugins (>= 1.1.24~) Recommends: rubberband-ladspa Recommends: zam-plugins I think it's the lsp-plugins that supply the equalizer. Are you using MX Linux by any chance? They disable installing recommends and I have had several arguments with MX devs as it's a stupid idea. Years ago some packagers added useless recommends to their packages but these days most recommends are sane and required for full functionality. Debian apt itself installs recommends by default. Thanks. The lsp plugins were the only recommends that weren't included and they worked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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