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I just installed pulseeffects today because I wanted to have a noise-gate and compressor on my microphone for work (whereas I use lv2 plugins with JACK on my pe

by bisby 6y ago

I just installed pulseeffects today because I wanted to have a noise-gate and compressor on my microphone for work (whereas I use lv2 plugins with JACK on my personal machine). The "app" and "mic" both showed up as outputs and I couldn't figure out how to make zoom use the "pulse effects mic" and then I realized it was just haphazardly hijacking the actual mic rather than letting me pick it as a separate output. And pulseeffects needs to stay in a window running to work, with no minimize to tray option that I could tell? Felt useful if you only needed it running sometimes in certain scenarios, but felt like it didnt fit my use case, or I was definitely missing something.

rektide 6y ago
In the lower left of the Zoom conference window is a mute button. If you look closely, you'll see an arrow there, which, when clicked, causes a drop down menu to appear, where you can pick your audio input and output devices. TYL! Today You Learned!
- bisby 6y ago
  yeah... except both "app" and "mic" pulseeffect devices appear under "output devices" and there is no additional input device... it appears that the standard mic input is being modified without being a second device, so I'm not 100% sure what the other devices are for, if it just in-place modifies existing devices.
Zardoz84 6y ago
have you try NoiseToch ? it's a dumb to use AI noise filter (like the NVIDIA filter) that works over pulse audio. It's very impressive.
- app4soft 6y ago
  > have you try NoiseToch¹? ¹ NoiseTorch, not NoiseToch.[0] [0] https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch
- guywhocodes 6y ago
  Just tried as per your recommendation, I have a loud AC unit behind me but the high noise floor is entirely gone. It's almost magical, sure it sounds a bit like low bitrate lossy compression artifacts but it's incredibly clear. I'll be using this for all my calls in the future.
8bitsrule 6y ago
PE (I've used it only for listening, not recording) takes a while to 'sink in' (pun intended). At least some of the PE preset settings still function when it's 'closed'. In ?Ubuntu it'll minimize with the panel icon visible (if you've include it there). Some options can't be enabled without installing 'lsp-plugins'. 'pavucontrol' is essential to see the goz-intas/outas.
LukeShu 6y ago
> And pulseeffects needs to stay in a window running to work, with no minimize to tray option that I could tell? You need to launch PulseEffects as a daemon ahead-of-time, then if the daemon is running the GUI will attach to it. You can launch the daemon by running `pulseeffects --gapplication-service`. In the GUI, if you go upper-right-hamburger-menu→General, there's a toggle for "Start Service at Login", which will write a ~/.config/autostart/pulseeffects-service.desktop file that runs that command. Most desktop environments will do the correct thing with that.

by bisby 6y ago

rektide 6y ago

In the lower left of the Zoom conference window is a mute button. If you look closely, you'll see an arrow there, which, when clicked, causes a drop down menu to appear, where you can pick your audio input and output devices. TYL! Today You Learned!

bisby 6y ago
yeah... except both "app" and "mic" pulseeffect devices appear under "output devices" and there is no additional input device... it appears that the standard mic input is being modified without being a second device, so I'm not 100% sure what the other devices are for, if it just in-place modifies existing devices.

Zardoz84 6y ago

have you try NoiseToch ? it's a dumb to use AI noise filter (like the NVIDIA filter) that works over pulse audio. It's very impressive.

app4soft 6y ago
> have you try NoiseToch¹? ¹ NoiseTorch, not NoiseToch.[0] [0] https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch
guywhocodes 6y ago
Just tried as per your recommendation, I have a loud AC unit behind me but the high noise floor is entirely gone. It's almost magical, sure it sounds a bit like low bitrate lossy compression artifacts but it's incredibly clear. I'll be using this for all my calls in the future.

8bitsrule 6y ago

PE (I've used it only for listening, not recording) takes a while to 'sink in' (pun intended). At least some of the PE preset settings still function when it's 'closed'. In ?Ubuntu it'll minimize with the panel icon visible (if you've include it there). Some options can't be enabled without installing 'lsp-plugins'. 'pavucontrol' is essential to see the goz-intas/outas.

LukeShu 6y ago

> And pulseeffects needs to stay in a window running to work, with no minimize to tray option that I could tell? You need to launch PulseEffects as a daemon ahead-of-time, then if the daemon is running the GUI will attach to it. You can launch the daemon by running `pulseeffects --gapplication-service`. In the GUI, if you go upper-right-hamburger-menu→General, there's a toggle for "Start Service at Login", which will write a ~/.config/autostart/pulseeffects-service.desktop file that runs that command. Most desktop environments will do the correct thing with that.