jackhack96 / easyeffects-presets

Collection of PulseEffects presets

EasyEffects Presets

Note: if you're searching for PulseEffects presets, select the pulseffects branch from the branch menu and follow the manual installation.

A collection of presets for wwmm's EasyEffects

It currently contains:

1. Bass Enhancing + Perfect EQ

   This preset is based on Ziyad Nazem's "Perfect EQ" combined with the Razor surround impulse response.

2. Perfect EQ

   This preset only enables Ziyad Nazem's "Perfect EQ"

3. Boosted

   This preset is based on Ziyad Nazem's "Boosted" equalizer settings, which especially enhance lower frequencies

4. Advanced Auto Gain

   This preset is targeted for laptop speakers and tries to improve both lower and higher frequencies. It also tries to normalize the volumes in different medias like speech and music. More information can be found in this blog.

5. LoudnessEqualizer

   This preset is targeted for laptop speakers to get clear voice locals and prevent dimming of sound when bass part gets played. More info can be found on Digtalone1's github

Installation

The install.sh script will try to install the presets automatically, just fire up a terminal and run the command:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JackHack96/PulseEffects-Presets/master/install.sh)"

NOTE: the script requires curl to be installed. Ubuntu doesn't ship with curl installed by default, so you have to first run

sudo apt install curl

before running the script.

Manual installation

Just clone the repository and then copy the .json files into the EasyEffects/output directory which you can find in the local config directory. Obviously the location of that directory depends on how you installed EasyEffects. If you installed it through Flatpak, you can find it in ~/.var/app/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects/config/easyeffects, or if you used the PPA for Ubuntu (or the AUR package for Arch) it should be ~/.config/easyeffects

easyeffects-presets's Issues

Thank you

@JackHack96 I just want to say THANK YOU. For two years I was suffering with shitty sound because of Beats Audio and nothing helped when I tried to fix it. But today I've installed PulseEffects and imported yours presets, and I'm no longer suffering from shitty sound.

Compressed Audio + Bass Enhancing + Perfect EQ - sounds weird now

Hey there,

first of all thanks for your presets, they've greatly increased my audio experience in Linux.

I just wanted to leave my observation that after Pulse effect switched to calf for certain effects in 3.2.2 the Compressed Audio + Bass Enhancing + Perfect EQ present has a weird reverb sound to it.

I am not sure if it's just me, but it can be fixed by turning of the input limiter. Might also mean some of the settings need to be adjusted.

Add small improvements to documentation

Hey :)
if you want you could add that presets are stored in ~/.config/easyeffects/output and that they can be loaded with the preset button in the upper left corner in EasyEffects and combine multiple effects and are more than simply an equalizer.
Those were the things that were unclear to me at first because I have never used EasyEffects before and maybe that would also be helpful for others!

Still works

I just installed from the script and all is still working. Thank you!

Tested on:
Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
Pipewire 1.0.7 (Pulseaudio removed)
EasyEffects 7.1.6

"Bass Enhancing + Perfect EQ.json" needs adapting after installation to new /home/{user} folder for .irs settings

FYI: By default the path is set to

"kernel-path": "\/home\/matteo\/.config\/PulseEffects\/irs\/Dolby ATMOS ((128K MP3)) 1.Default.irs",

so the Convolver part will not work - also I had to select one of the irs profiles in the Convolver part of the app to make it work.

In a nutshell:

Just select the irs profiles in the Convolver part of the Application via the "impulse response file" setting (the wave form button) the first time you launch it - and it should be fine,

Great settings ! - loving the irs files - never had this great sound output on Linux so far <3

Thanks

PulseEffecet is replaced with EasyEffects

As PulseEffecet replaced with EasyEffects, please fix configs with EasyEffects.
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

I want to delete it, how can I do it?

And if I want to delete it, how can I do it ?

Laptop preset corrupt?

When trying to load the preset "Laptop":

(easyeffects:125455): easyeffects-WARNING **: 20:43:36.091: 	lv2_wrapper.cpp:65	Could not find the plugin: urn:zamaudio:ZaMaximX2

(easyeffects:125455): easyeffects-WARNING **: 20:43:36.091: 	lv2_wrapper.cpp:353	urn:zamaudio:ZaMaximX2 port symbol not found: thresh

(easyeffects:125455): easyeffects-WARNING **: 20:43:36.091: 	lv2_wrapper.cpp:353	urn:zamaudio:ZaMaximX2 port symbol not found: ceil

(easyeffects:125455): easyeffects-WARNING **: 20:43:36.091: 	lv2_wrapper.cpp:353	urn:zamaudio:ZaMaximX2 port symbol not found: rel

(easyeffects:125455): easyeffects-WARNING **: 20:43:36.496: 	presets_manager.cpp:797	A parsing error occurred while trying to load the blocklist from the preset. The file could be invalid or corrupted. Please check its content.

(easyeffects:125455): easyeffects-WARNING **: 20:43:36.499: 	presets_manager.cpp:331	[json.exception.out_of_range.403] key 'blocklist' not found

Eq

Installation

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Make the PulseEffects version available for non-pipewire users

So after PulseEffects changed to PipeWire it changed to Easyeffects, myself I don't like Pipewire and find it to behave really badly at times, would it be possible to perhaps add a note in the readme with a script that allows you to download the old pulseeffects compatible versions?

Cave sound with Laptop preset using Easyeffects on pipewire.

Using EndeavourOS Apolo build 2022.04.08 with easyeffects installed via pacman. Had this issue with every distro I used with pipewire and easyeffects. When I select the Laptop preset the sound is like in a cave and it goes lower and lower until there is no sound at all.
Same on my desktop.
I can give more information if needed.

Randomly very garbled/distorted sound with "Advanced Auto Gain" preset on Chromium based applications

Everything works fine on all applications (including chromium based ones) but after some time, seemingly randomly an issue crops up for chromium based applications (e.g. WhatSie snap, Skype snap, Chrome official .deb, etc) (haven't noticed/encountered it for other applications till now).

The issue is that all sound output (don't know about sound input but can check it too if you want me to) becomes very garbled until either laptop/EasyEffects is restarted or an empty preset (with no effects in it) is loaded* or EasyEffects is turned off via the button on top-left corner*.

*Reverting these makes the issue come back.

The issue hasn't occurred mid-sound-playback yet, i.e. so far it has always occurred after one playing sound has finished and then after a while (>10 minutes) when another sound is played, it is all garbled, after which all chromium applications exhibit the issue.

I can attach a recording of the issue too if you need me to. Also, these have all been only my rough observations over a few weeks so take them with a grain of salt.

Some more info:
Laptop: ThinkPad T580
Distro: Kubuntu 22.10 updated to plasma 5.26.5
EasyEffects: Installed through flatpak
Might be related or have some causal linkage on my setup: kmonad/kmonad#668 (or could be sleep related?)

PS: Thanks for the awesome presets!

Paths with flatpak

Hi,

The Convolver does not find files if PulseEffects is being installed with flatpak. The actual path will be ~/.var/app/com.github.wwmm.pulseeffects/config/PulseEffects/irs while ~/.config/PulseEffects/irs is not permitted by default for security reasons and sandboxing. The install script should adjust it. Maybe there is an option to detect PulseEffect's correct path or use some magic variable for the config path?

Permanent hardware damage

I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9. I installed pulse effects from apt along with presets from here https://github.com/JackHack96/PulseEffects-Presets

I selected convolva and then chose the Dolby Atmos preset. I started playing music on Spotify and turned up the volume a bit. I heard a slight bit of distortion and then one of the speakers on the bottom of the laptop stopped working. It appears that I pretty much instantly caused permanent damage to my laptop. I've tested the speakers using a live boot disk and they don't work there either.

I didn't see any warnings about hardware damage and honestly thought I'd hear sounds if distress long before anything broke. So user beware I guess?!

No laptop preset for pulseeffects branch

When using fedora 38 with easy effects, the laptop preset is what i used. But now on Ubuntu 22.04 with pulse effects I cant seem to get a similar present even in the pulseeffects branch. Hopefully you could provide me with the laptop preset for easy effects that works for pulse effects as well thanks!

Rename repo to EasyEffects-Presets?

Since EasyEffects is the primary target of this repo now, I think it makes sense the repo name matches that.

GitHub lets you just rename the repo, and old links to https://github.com/JackHack96/PulseEffects-Presets will be seamlessly redirected to https://github.com/JackHack96/EasyEffects-Presets

Irs file not loading

I get the following error
(pulseeffects:15704): pulseeffects-DEBUG: 04:51:34.786: convolver: irs file does not exists or it is empty: (pulseeffects:15704): pulseeffects-DEBUG: 04:51:34.786: convolver: we will just passthrough data. (pulseeffects:15704): pulseeffects-DEBUG: 04:51:34.798: sie: convolver is disabled
Eventhough I have the files inside ~./config/PulseEffects/irs/.
I even tried loading them through the gui.

Bass sound slightly reduced when I installed Realtime Privileges on Arch Linux based distro (EndeavourOS)

Hi. In the past, when I didn't install Realtime Privileges a few months ago, the mid range sound was a bit muffled, the bass was pretty good. Now that I have installed Realtime Privileges on EndeavorOS, added a user group and restarted, the vocals are clear, but the bass sound is reduced, even less audible in some songs via the headset.
Presets I loaded: Bass Enhancer + Perfect EQ

Translation from .preset to .json

From version 4 of PulseEffect, the preset format has been completely changed, and it's not back compatible.
The preset currently in the repo are not usable anymore.
Is it planned to translate them to json format or everybody should take care of it on it's own?

Loading a preset doesn't change anything

Question might be quite stupid or I don't know how to set it up, but once I've downloaded a json file and loaded it into pulseeffects all the categories on the left are still disabled (equalizer, crystalizer and so on). I've tried another json file from different resource and it enabled most of the categories and provided adjustments which makes sound much better. This is how it looks in my case:

So how to set it up to hear the difference?

Couldn't install

I have downloaded Pulse effects using flatpack, and downloaded curl. However when use the bash script you provided it reads: Error! Couldn't find EasyEffects presets directory!

Flatpak dependency

Running the install script requires the user to have flatpak, which not many people have. The flatpak checking must be done only if flatpak exists

No sound after update Easy Effects to `7.1.3`.

Hi, thanks for this project, I've been using it for a long time, and it works perfectly fine until today, I updated Easy Effect to 7.1.3, and now it has no sound, but the sound will come back when I remove presets or exclude the apps. Any help will be appreciated.

Manual installation section small correction

Love your presets!

Very small error noted in the manual installation section. Where it is written, "If you installed it through Flatpak, you can find it in ~/.var/app/com.github.wwmm.EasyEffects/config/easyeffects," the com.github.wwmm.EasyEffects should be written com.github.wwmm.easyeffects such that the directory to seek is, ~/.var/app/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects/config/easyeffects.

Caused a (small but forgivable) headache!

Distorted sound when source goes mildly silent and gains volume while using the Advanced Auto Gain preset.

Just to say thank you

It works perfectly. Thanks for doing the install script

Install-script default is broken

when using the install script and not selecting an install option (i.e. using the default) the script behaves unexpectedly

console output:

$ ./install.sh
Please select an option for presets installation (Default=1)
1) Install all presets
2) Install Perfect EQ preset
3) Install all bass boosting presets
4) Install Advanced Auto Gain
5) Install Laptop speaker preset

environment: line 28: [: : integer expression expected
environment: line 28: [: : integer expression expected