Too much bass

antipop · 04-04-2004, 03:20 PM

I've recently installed mandrake 10 on my bro comp and we encountered some problem with the sound card. It's an hercules muse Xl. After working on it for a few hours we were able to make it work (with the help of people on a chan)
However the sound is not very good, it's mostly saturated in bass. It's really awfull and i can't watch a movie on the comp under linux.
Is there a way to correct the sound coming from the sound card?

ps i'm using a 4.1 kit from altec lansing and i can't regulate the subwoofer volume

antipop · 04-06-2004, 07:13 AM

No one?

apokryphos · 08-29-2004, 12:24 PM

I'm running Mandrake 10.0, KDE, and having pretty much the same problem. My sound card is decent, and got surround-sound speakers. Is there no way to adjust the bass?

chozas · 08-29-2004, 05:09 PM

if you are using alsa, the alsa volume mixer has controls for the bass volume and the other different volumes.

Electro · 08-29-2004, 07:46 PM

You can use arts to compress the low frequencies and keep the mid and high frequencies intact.

Did you try with other speakers.

You can try to put in a bug report at ALSA. They will eventually fix it.

chozas, not all alsa modules have a bass and treble settings. It depends on the programmer for the module and the sound card.