Frédéric Pierret was the first here to identify a possible origin for the problem. And Marco did preliminary work on this. The "jcs way" looks promising to me, but surely it requires a lot of work. I'm joining you on the fact that we might never get help from Realtek on this, but I don't think we should disregard community's effort :)
On my side, I also have a Realtek ALC1220 codec Codec: Realtek ALC1220 Vendor Id: 0x10ec1220 Subsystem Id: 0x18492220 Revision Id: 0x100101 equipped on an ASRock B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard ("AMD Promontory B450" chipset). The sound coming out the green jack is OK. The sound recorded from the microphone plugged on the pink jack is crackling. I'm running Linux 4.19.44. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio 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/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp