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EasyEffects

Real-time effects chain for microphone and output, with presets.

Works on WaylandGPL-3.0-only

Install

Any distro

flatpak install flathub com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS

sudo apt install easyeffects

Fedora, RHEL, Nobara

sudo dnf install easyeffects

Arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS

sudo pacman -S easyeffects

openSUSE

sudo zypper install easyeffects

NixOS, or Nix on any distro

nix profile install nixpkgs#easyeffects

The practical answer to “my microphone sounds bad” on Linux. EasyEffects inserts a processing chain on your input, so a gate, compressor and EQ apply to every application at once rather than being configured per app.

The chain worth starting with is gate, then compressor, then EQ, then a limiter. Noise reduction is tempting to max out; resist it, since aggressive settings are what produce the underwater artefacting that is more distracting than the noise was.

It works on output too, which is occasionally useful for taming loud game audio relative to your voice.