I haven't checked, but I assume PulseEffects must have a module to convert stereo to mono.
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Pulse effects, is that some sort of addon to pulse audio? Will look into it, thanks!
It's an application that runs in the background and applies all sorts of filters and effects to your sound before it goes to the speakers. It's actually quite cool, it can upgrade a crappy set of speakers/headphones to a mediocre one by applying the right adjustments.
Oh i see, tried to install it here but it didn't work, the app doesn't start, Lots of people are recommending switching to pipewire, i think i may try that
I see. I've never used it but it sounds like a good suggestion :)
hey! So, i ended up trying to download this again and it worked perfectly, it was exactly what i needed, i think it didn't work before cuz i had downloaded the wrong app, didn't saw that the name was "easyeffects" and downloaded this "pulseeffects-legacy" one, which didn't work probably cuz turned out i was using pipewire-pulse all along, so yeah, your suggestion was the one i needed soo, thank you!
I'm glad it's working! Yeah, right after posting that message I also noticed they forked it with a new name.
Hmm, the easy way would be to simply set the balance to 100% left, but that's just the left channel and not both. Maybe combined with some of the other's suggestions it could work.
Unfortunately I do not remember how, but I did this a few years back. However, I used jackd instead of pulseaudio on that machine, so that might be one of the requirements.
Ooh, will keep that in mind thank you!
Good god I remember doing this like 10 years ago. I don't remember what I did, only that it was a nightmare. I only hope the situation has improved.
https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/pulseaudio-como-cambiar-a-mono-en-lugar-de-stereo/ this looks like something similar to the solution I came to in the end. Here's some more information https://askubuntu.com/questions/17791/can-i-downmix-stereo-audio-to-mono and this https://askubuntu.com/questions/71863/how-to-change-pulseaudio-sink-with-pacmd-set-default-sink-during-playback/72076#72076
Good luck.
thanks!
You can also use Helvum, it's a patchbay native to Pipewire
after some messing around to see how the app works i got it, it's working thank you so much!!
Great! I agree it's a little rough for now, and it seems development is kinda slow, but it works for what it tries to achieve already
Give qpwgraph a try, does the same thing
Oh thanks, didn't know there was a Qt counterpart, it looks pretty good!
Just found out my system is actually running pipewire, so that's why everything i tried didn't work right! But when i checked i remember seeing pulse-audio
Or maybe i just read it wrong... well that makes things easier, will look into y'all suggestions about pipe, thanks!
It's probably the pulseaudio provided by the pipewire backend, it is there for compatibility with apps that still rely on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#PulseAudio_clients
How much latency can you endure? There are several patch bays for Jack that will let you do this, maybe requiring a mixing plugin or something. Gstreamer also has your back https://stackoverflow.com/a/16480476/9331018
Vlc or ffmpeg can probably do something similar
I play osu! So latency is something I'd want as small as possible
Oh, i didn't thought about that, won't any solution have some sort of latency? Oh well, let's see, i always play it with headphones so I'd Like to go with with a disablable method or something of that sort tho
either install an old version of pulseeffects or update to pipewire and set a mono filter