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> I'm trying to get the following to work: There's a SoundBlaster Live<br>
> (emu10k1) soundcard in my PC and the bass is set to 90%. This causes a<br>
> lot of audio distortion on the audio output because Pulseaudio always<br>
> sets the front volume to 100 % (and keeps resetting it to that value).<br>
> If I set it down to ~50 %, there are no issues.<br>
><br>
> What I'd like to do now is forcing Pulseaudio to leave my front audio<br>
> volume where I set it. I've consulted this page:<br>
> <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes/">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes/</a><br>
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> There it says I should add the "control=" parameter to module-alsa-sink,<br>
> so I added this to my configuration:<br>
><br>
> load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0 control=PCM<br>
><br>
> Now I have a second sink for the soundcard, but the sound is still<br>
> cracking and the front volume setting doesn't have any impact on the<br>
> sound anymore.<br>
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> Does anyone have a solution for this?</p>
<p>The tone controls treble/bass of SB Live have -12dB atten to +12dB gain , this mean that you need to keep those DSP volume controls to -12dB if you set bass to maximun</p>