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I had a similar issue previously. The cause appeared to be that the sample rate of the microphone didn't match what the OS was expecting. The solution was to limit the sample rates that the microphone and the sound card were allowed to use.
I don't remember where to go to fix it, but I had to edit some config file and reboot, and then it worked fine.
so i tried searching and found this one
and weirdly enough my pc has the daemon.conf file and my laptop doesnt
in the (laptop)pulse/ has only client.conf and client.conf.d folder
also i have no clue what is the freq rate for this
the specs only have freq range
changed sample rate and tried to kill pulseaudio as outlined but it isnt running
so i changed the main rate to 48000 and alt is 44100
44k has been standard for several decades, but not everything supports 48k. If this is what's causing your issues, you'll want everything to run 44k only on all audio devices liated.
I don't know if that will fix your problem, but it did fix mine.
oh it was running at 44k changed it(like 2 seconds ago) to 48 with no solution
i changed it back with no fix still
also i tried to make both to be 44100 but that gave me in the sound settings a flashing no mic is available error
so im not the best but with what you said before with your other laptop not having the file I would usually try to rename the file with like a .bak extension on the end and restart and see if it just worked. then you just remove the .bak if you want to get back to where you were.
renaming or cutting the file to a diff folder even with root permission doesnt do anything since i dont even have pulse running if it was running diff story
What kind of mic is that? Do you connect it to a sound interface (like p2 plug), or does it have its own interface (like usb-c)? If the first case, have you tried connecting a different mic to the same interface, just to rule out any possible hardware problem? Have you tried the same machine, but with another os, just to check if it's specific a problem with mint?
its a generic jack microphone (ill add specs here and on mint page)
i have tried connecting multiple mic with the same problem
i also tried connecting it to the back of the pc with similar results
and the other os thing is kinda hard to do due to limited space on drives
mic specs as written on box
freq range 35-18 hz
sensitivity -30db +/- 3db 0db=1v/pa, 1kz
connector 3.5 trrs connection
also wanna add its most like an os problem as b4 mint i used to run windows with microphones fine
You can try another os in a live usb environment, without installing. It's important so you can be sure it's not something in the hardware. I once had some problem with noise, and it took me years to find the cause. I even bought a usb sound card to be able to use a mic. In the end, it was a problem in the power source generating interference (probably along with poor isolation).
In the software side, have you tried using alsamixer or a similar tool to 1- mute everything not related to the mic and the output 2 - lower the mic volume (high mic volume can generate noise)? It's also worth checking if you have conflicting sound servers or something like that. Have you installed anything related to sound, or are you using the defaults?
okay so i think it may be hardware related cuz it doesnt pickup my voice at all like it produces the usb noise when plugged in (when recording or when it is in the sound menu) i disabled enabled and changed everything in alsa with no diff i mean when lowering the mic audio the noise gets lowered i dont think i installed anything but if i did it prolly was a dependency for something like reaper or some other app im going to live boot fedora rn using ventoy will update after testing is there any other oses i should test too?
after testing it on fedora it still does the same glitch where it doesnt pick up anything and produces usb noise