alsamixer allows me to adjust the mobo headphonejack left&right channels independently, however for some peculiar reason alsamixer locks the left&right channels together for the arctis 7 headset. that might make sense for a mono device, but this is a stereo headset (tho is configured with stereo and mono outputs and mono mic). i can hear stereo separation just fine, but one side is annoyingly weaker, so i want to adjust the balance. or in pavucontrol, tho in pavucontrol i don't see how to independently adjust left&right channels for any other device either. can anyone suggest where to look for what to tweak? these are what i've found so far, tho it's not clear to me what if anything can be done with them: $ head -99 /u*/s*/p*/a*/p*/*s-7* /e*/ls* ==> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/steelseries-arctis-7-input.conf <== ; Steelseries Arctis 7 USB headset microphone path. Works also with Arctis Pro ; Wireless. [General] description-key = analog-input-microphone-headset [Element Headset] volume = merge switch = mute override-map.1 = all override-map.2 = all-left,all-right ==> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/steelseries-arctis-7-output-mono.conf <== ; Steelseries Arctis 7 USB headset mono output path. Works also with Arctis Pro ; Wireless. The headset has two output devices. The first one is mono, meant ; for voice audio, and the second one is stereo, meant for everything else. The ; purpose of this unusual design is to provide separate volume controls for ; voice and other audio, which can be useful in gaming. [General] description-key = analog-output-headphones-mono [Element PCM] volume = merge switch = mute override-map.1 = all override-map.2 = all-left,all-right ==> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/steelseries-arctis-7-output-stereo.conf <== ; This path doesn't provide hardware volume control, because the stereo ; output is controlled by the PCM element with index 1, and currently ; PulseAudio only supports elements with index 0. [General] description-key = analog-output-headphones ==> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/steelseries-arctis-7-usb-audio.conf <== [General] auto-profiles = yes [Mapping analog-mono] device-strings = hw:%f,0,0 channel-map = mono paths-output = steelseries-arctis-7-output-mono paths-input = steelseries-arctis-7-input [Mapping analog-stereo] device-strings = hw:%f,1,0 channel-map = left,right paths-output = steelseries-arctis-7-output-stereo direction = output [Profile output:analog-mono+output:analog-stereo+input:analog-mono] output-mappings = analog-mono analog-stereo input-mappings = analog-mono priority = 5100 skip-probe = yes ==> /etc/lsb-release <== DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS" $ dpkg-query -W alsa-utils pulseaudio pavucontrol alsa-utils 1.1.3-1ubuntu1 pulseaudio 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.4 pavucontrol 3.0-4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20200304/1cd381de/attachment.htm>