May as well join the fun. Believed I tried every suggested work around above, still got crackling.
In my case the crackling is present on the line-in 3.5mm jack plug and not a microphone. I run: X470 GAMING PRO (MS-7B79) motherboard with a ALC892, Ryzen 2700, Radeon RX Vega 54. Running Ubuntu 19.04, Kernel 5.0.0-20-generic (was hoping kernel 5 would improve things). I did notice that the crackling reduced a bit when using this setting in /etc/default.pa ### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available .ifexists module-udev-detect.so load-module module-udev-detect use_ucm=0 tsched=0 .else ### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev suppor$ load-module module-detect tsched=0 .endif I use a Loopback (# pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1) to pipe some line in audio (chiptune device('s)) into PulseAudio if that's something useful to know. Really annoying problem, makes me feel ashamed using Linux, really nice up to date computer (hardware) and some trivial piece of sillycon working with every other OS refuses to work on Linux. Don't know who to blame, but blaming I do! USB soundcapture isn't really the thing I'm looking for. Unnecessary latency is often a thing I try to avoid. Who wants to trade a X470 GAMING PRO for a X470 board that has working sound on Linux?? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1801540 Title: Microphone distorted sound on ALC892/1220 on AMD chipsets Status in Linux: Confirmed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Not sure if I'll report this upstream but there is definitely an issue with microphone recording on my desktop, this is not happening on my laptop which has a different codec. Already tried all workarounds possible, no luck. Only with my desktop with this particular motherboard. No issues in Windows, the sound recorded in there is distorted and has some static and robotic tone on high-pitch. alsa-info on the attachments To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1801540/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp