Sound Equalizer for Qubes...Solved

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Good morning guys,

Well I am looking for some kind of “Sound Equalizer” either for my qubes “Dom0” or Template install so I can improve the quality of my music as I work. The sound at best is to much bass or some songs sound grabbled. I have tried “Pulse-audio Equalizer” in one of my Template builds, it installed but I got no GUI to adjust. I tried to get it to launch,qapeq, I get dbus errors, I tried you know pactl load-module xxx; other fixes. I kept getting no dbus module installed or running.

I tried easyeffects, that was a waste of time. I got a GUI but no presets to load or sliders to adjust, you have to download them from GitHub.

Is there some “sound equalizer” that will work with Qubes? I just want to hear better music

Thank you

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We don’t know are you using pipewire or pulseaudio.

pactl info | grep Server

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Easyeffects will be your best bet.

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Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native

Server Protocol Version: 35

Server Name: PulseAudio (on Pipewire 1.4.2)

Server Version: 15.0.0

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The music is so FLAT, sound like to much bass and missing treble.

Metallic & Slayer sound very BAD!!

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JamesDSP and EasyEffects are to go. I can’t help with better than that. You should also update your pipewire. It is pretty old.

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QubeOS doesn’t change the frequency profile of your music in any way (unless you choose to add your own equalizer).

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I thought “pipewire” would update along with Dom0 updates, and so how do I update pipewire then?

IS JamesDSP offered for dom0?

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Sorry, I have no idea. I thought you were using sys-audio, and there I have f43.
JamesDSP is available as Flatpak version

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Yeah I saw that about JamesDSP, doing my research. I checked pipewire and it appears I am on the latest version for my build. I went ahead and grabbed easyeffects and have been playing around with it. It appears that have more features then I first saw and appears to be working for now.

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