I have been struggling with crackling/static audio on only one of my audio input devices. My audio technica AT2020USB microphone. After waking up from hibernate, and multiple times through the day I have to go into Sound recorder and do a sound-check on my microphone to make sure it hasn’t reverted back to static/terrible quality.
The other day when this happened, I went into device manager and disabled this “AMD-Dynamic Audio Noise Suppression” device and my audio reverted (I already had confirmed that inside the AMD software noise reduction/suppression wasn’t enabled).
But then the problem recurred. For some reason it’s always the microphone input from the AT2020USB+, never the Logitech C920 webcam.
One thing that was throwing me off is that elsewhere in the Device Manager, the USB Microphone input appeared to be using Microsoft drivers,
but then when I would go into Settings, it was showing that the AT2020USB was using AMD drivers:
(This screenshot now shows the generic driver I assigned, instead of AMD in the upper right corner
I was able to switch the AT2020USB+ to generic drivers from the “Sound, video and game controllers” section, but the problem returned again.
Now I have Disabled all of the AMD Sound controllers (AMD BT Audio Device, AMD High Definition Audio Device, AMD Streaming Audio Device, AMD USB Audio Device)-> After disabling the AMD USB Audio Device, it said that I needed to reboot the computer. :
So far the problem hasn’t come back today, but time will tell.
If I could figure out this problem, and my problem where both of my Thunderbolt 4 docks (Dell and Lenovo) have to be unplugged and replugged every time I wake up the laptop in order for app switching from the taskbar to work (a new problem since the last week of December) I’d be a pretty happy camper with my Framework 13 AMD. (Well, also if sleep would actually work and stay asleep so I didn’t have to use hibernate if I didn’t want a dead battery or a cooked laptop in the bag.)