There’s a really cool equalizer for Pulse Audio which can be installed by adding a repository. Its a system wide equalizer hence no matter what media player you use, you will be able to utilise this setting.
The image below is a screenshot of the same:
How to install:
Open the Terminal (Accessories > Terminal) and type in the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:psyke83/ppa
Next type the following in the Terminal:
sudo apt-get update
Finally, type the following (in the Terminal of course)
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
Thats it. You can access the Pulse Audio Equalizer from the Sounds & Video menu.
Update: The creator of this Equalizer has added a new .deb file for both 32 and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 10.10, simply click on the following link and install: Download Link
To make it work in Meerkat:
1. Follow all the steps described above
2. Edit psyke83-ppa-maverick.list and
change “maverick” to “lucid” in both of the two lines
$ sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/psyke83-ppa-maverick.list
3. Copy the missing icon
$ sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Humanity/apps/16/gnome-volume-control.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16×16/apps/gnome-volume-control.svg
Executing from Applications/Sound & Video/PusleAudio Equalizer gives nothing.
Executing from Terminal gives the following:
dennis@PC:~$ pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk
Getting settings…
ls: cannot access /home/dennis/.pulse/presets/*.preset: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/pulseaudio-equalizer/pulseaudio-equalizer.py”, line 519, in
Equalizer()
File “/usr/share/pulseaudio-equalizer/pulseaudio-equalizer.py”, line 362, in __init__
icon = self.window.set_icon_from_file(“/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16×16/apps/gnome-volume-control.svg”)
glib.GError: Failed to open file ‘/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16×16/apps/gnome-volume-control.svg’: No such file or directory
Typical for Linux…so…what next?
ur installation didnt work. try installing it again.
I have exactly the same problem, giving exactly the same error message. I have re-installed and re-installed and re-installed, to no avail. I am running Maverick and have followed the procedure as given by Kenneth Freeman above, still no luck. Any other suggestions?
Brilliant. Worked a treat. Laptop sounds a billion times better.
I’m trying to get the equalizer enabled by default at startup. I’m running 10.04. I’ve tried adding the following entry to the Startup Applications:
Command: pulseaudio-equalizer enable
However, this isn’t working.
I also tried adding sudo pulseaudio-equalizer enable to my etc/rc.local script to no effect.
I’m a Linux n00b, so does anyone have a better way to do this?
Thanks.
Go to System-Admin-software sources-other software and add this –
ppa:psyke83/ppa
Then bring up System-admin-synaptic package manager and search for –
pulseaudio-equalizer
Click to install.
The command would be pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk enable 🙂
I got the following:
:~$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package pulseaudio-equalizer
I’m new at this. Help?
make sure you added this line:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:psyke83/ppa
pulseaudio-equalizer is already in Fedora’s repos. Ubuntu should keep up.
installed the pulse equalizer based on instruction here… the output sound doesn’t change even there’s a check mark in the “EQ enable” checkbox & even i kept adjusting many Hz switch. how to make it work…? i’m using ubuntu 10.4 & c-media PCI…
tried pulseaudio-equalizer enable in the terminal, then it shows:
PulseAudio Equalizer/LADSPA Processor 2.7 (05/02/2010)
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Current operation: disabling equalizer
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Unloading & reloading stream-restore module…
Unloading module-ladspa-sink…
Moving active PulseAudio clients to ALSA sink (alsa_output.p
tereo)…
Transferring current mute (0) & volume (100%) to ALSA sink (
0b.0.analog-stereo)…
————————————-
Current operation: enabling equalizer
————————————-
Unloading & reloading stream-restore module…
Loading module-ladspa-sink…
Transferring current mute (0) & volume (100%) to LADSPA sink
7.mbeq)…
Setting ALSA sink (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0b.0.analog-stere
Setting LADSPA sink (ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq) as defaul
Moving active PulseAudio clients to LADSPA sink (ladspa_outp
————————————-
Equalizer status: [enabled]
Equalizer configuration status: [disabled]
Equalizer plugin: [mbeq_1197/mbeq]
Equalizer control: [-1.6,2.6,2.6,-8.5,-10.5,-11.2,-20.3,-14.
,7.3,30.0]
NOTE: Using user-customized settings from ‘/home/administrat
.
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but still no effect. can somebody help me?
but still no effect. can somebody help me?
i noticed something, the pulse audio equalizer doesn’t work with an input sound & in real time recording (equalizing the input sound of an electic guitar) or whatever it called but it only works with output sound & when i played a recorded sound (like playing music) or playback or whatever it called… is there anything that can equalize any input sound in real time or during recording so the input sound (from electric guitar or something) is equalize or clean during recording? (i don’t know how to use JACK)
Just what I need for using cmus music player!
Update added to the blog post guys, hope it solves all issues with 10.04
Is there any way to make this work when playing music through spotify?
So far spotify stops everytime I change anything in the equalizer program.
Is it gonna work on 11.04 too?
for me it worked right away, thanks
Thank you
HEY! It works WITHOUT GRAPHICAL INTERFACE!
Got the same problem:
pulseaudio-equalizer works (terminal)
pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk works not (terminal or menu)
In that case, go to /home//.pulse/equalizerrc
and modify the 1.0 in the file, right below “Multiband EQ”, this is the master volume.
restart the EQ via terminal:
pulseaudio-equalizer disable
pulseaudio-equalizer enable
Done!
Awe, man!!!
between home//.pulse
there’s the username (your home-folder)
I set “username” in “less than”-“greater than”-parentheses and they were removed automatically. 😥
UPDATE
woks fine on Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
well done!
Thanks, it works great under Linux Mint 14 (Nadia)
I installed succesfully but I cant find the EQ anywhere. Tried running it from the terminal but none of the commands above work. I tried “man -k pulseaudio” and couldnt find anything there about it, either.