I'm having trouble with my audio setup. My main headphone's microphone isn't working, but I have another set of earbuds with a great mic. I'd like to use my main headphones for audio and the earbuds just for mic input. However, when I connect the earbuds to my PC, the sound and mic seem to switch over to them, and my main headphones get no audio at all. I'm feeling pretty frustrated with audio settings in both Windows and Linux. I'm currently using Arch Linux with PipeWire, and I've tried using pavucontrol to tweak the settings, but nothing's working. Any advice would be appreciated!
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If you're already using pavucontrol, you can easily set your audio devices. Just click the "Set as fallback" button next to the devices you want to use on the Input and Output Devices tabs—this should help specify which one is used for audio and which for mic!
You need to set a "default source" and "default sink" for your audio devices. Using commands like `pactl list sources` and `pactl list sinks` can help you identify them. Once you know what they are, you can set your main headphones as the default output with `pactl set-default-sink ` and your earbuds as the default input with `pactl set-default-source `.
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