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[Jerry3904]

Good work! We should probably bring that to the attention of @dolphin_oracle for consideration in MXPI.

[dolphin_oracle]

so dumb question:

does pulseeffects work if its installed this way:

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sudo apt install --install-recommends pulseeffects

[Stuart_M]

Yes - the initial output is as shown in the code window below. Accepted it and PulseEffects works fine with all the effects enabled with the exception of "Import Model" which is greyed-out, the same as my result in Post #20.

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sudo apt install --install-recommends pulseeffects
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  calf-plugins gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0 gstreamer1.0-adapter-pulseeffects
  gstreamer1.0-autogain-pulseeffects gstreamer1.0-convolver-pulseeffects
  gstreamer1.0-crystalizer-pulseeffects libebur128-1 libzita-convolver4 lsp-plugins-lv2
  lsp-plugins-r3d-glx rubberband-ladspa zam-plugins
Suggested packages:
  ladish
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  calf-plugins gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0 gstreamer1.0-adapter-pulseeffects
  gstreamer1.0-autogain-pulseeffects gstreamer1.0-convolver-pulseeffects
  gstreamer1.0-crystalizer-pulseeffects libebur128-1 libzita-convolver4 lsp-plugins-lv2
  lsp-plugins-r3d-glx pulseeffects rubberband-ladspa zam-plugins
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
Need to get 45.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 192 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Had I known (remembered) the recommends command I'd have saved myself a few hours of monkeying around...

Edit: Just FYI, the recommends installer for PulseEffects in MX-21 made the same package installations that I did manually with the following four exceptions.

1. libebur128-1 was installed in MX-21 (it was not listed in the MX-21 MXPI)

2. libzita-convolver4 was installed in MX-21 (it was not listed in the MX-21 MXPI and "convolver3" was used in MX-19)

3. lsp-plugins-r3d-glx was installed in MX-21 (there was no mention of it in the MX-19 installation of PulseEffects)

4. mda-lv2 was not installed in MX-21 (it was installed with the MX-19 installation of PulseEffects).

[davidy]

Pulseeffects is sweet. You can drag the icon to your panel and have it start at boot. Thanks Stuart_M. Merry Xmas too y'all.
Best of all, the basically crappy speakers on my laptop make good use of the 'Auto Gain' feature which is now always on by default (and the only thing I use it for atm).

[ionmich]

I am back on MX Linux. My equalizer solution was simple. I stuck a car equalizer under my monitor foot and run it off my desktop power supply. It gives me 7 bands, adjustable by knobs as sound is playing. I do appreciate all of your efforts to help me.

[MXRobo]

I wasn't going to try to follow this post as it seemed somewhat confusing but the car equalizer kind of brought it full circle.
@ionmich I suspect that alsamixer was not the app that worked as an equalizer, perhaps alsaequl or something else.

Anyway, In MX-21.3 Xfce an MXPI search for equalizer in the Test Repo finds pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa
Homepage: https://github.com/pulseaudio-equalizer ... /equalizer

I just installed it and only played with it for a minute, but it seems to work OK.
Volume Control pavucontrol switches from the USB DAC back to laptop speakers, of which I might find a fix, but other than that it seems fine. I like my settings rather flat, but I'll probably keep it installed.

This link https://www.baeldung.com/linux/sound-equalizers also mentions Easy Effects, formerly Pulse Effects.

Good Luck!

[Eadwine Rose]

If you have a help question, please ask in the help forum. Don't dig up an old topic. Thanks.

[MXRobo]

Hello Eadwine,

I'm not sure if post # 27 was directed to me or meant for another topic.
I'm receptive if I did something wrong, but the only thing that I can see is that part of my reply may have been misinterpreted as a request for help was:

Volume Control pavucontrol switches from the USB DAC back to laptop speakers, of which I might find a fix, but other than that it seems fine. I like my settings rather flat, but I'll probably keep it installed.

That was simply an explanation stating that my solution perhaps did not work perfectly.

I think that it is a good solution to this topic if I correctly understand what the OP wanted but this topic seemed confusing to me as I suspect mixers and equalizers, and alsamixer and alsaequal, (and perhaps other terms) may have been conflated.

Cheers!