I am pretty sure this belongs to a backend package and not the frontend. I have two seperate microphones that have the best sound quality when the "mic volume" (amplification) is set to 10%. It is really weird, I think on other operating systems there dont even is a mic volume, and in fact its only software amplification after all, so it will worsen the sound quality. On 100%, which is the default, my audio is completely useless, unsaveably oversteered. I actually tried to save some with Audacity, still unusable sounds. Alternative: Some way of calibrating the mic and presetting that volume for this device is needed. You never need to change the volume! But 10% for two of my mics (internal and headset) brings the best audio quality, which is very counterintuitive. The auto-adjustment could be to initially just: - enable the mic - record the sound - decrease the mic volume until there are sections of total silence when there is no total silence there is background hiss, which means the mic is over-amplified. So the calibration should be pretty easy. How it is it seems like a desperate "the user can change it so it doesnt have to work normally" way. On Windows or Android this doesnt even exist, for obvious reasons. If just setting 10% works for all devices, this may also be an option. Or preset 10%. But calibration would really be great I think --- Software --- OS: Fedora Linux 38.20230927.0 (Kinoite) KDE Plasma: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks: 5.109.0 Qt: 5.15.10 Kernel: 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64 Compositor: wayland --- Hardware --- Thinkpad T495 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx RAM: 21.4 GB GPU: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics Video memory: 2048MB Audio: Pipewire
> I am pretty sure this belongs to a backend package and not the frontend. Indeed. And the backend doesn't belong to KDE; you'll need to request this from PulseAudio or PipeWire (depending on which one you're using)