Definitely you either have Pipewire or PulseAudio for your setup. The short of it is the package ‘pipewire-pulse’ will take over anything PulseAudio did.
Also Easyeffects only works with Pipewire.
To rectify:
- Uninstall PulseAudio:
sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf
- Make sure Pipewire, Pipewire-pulse, Wireplumber and pavucontrol are installed (where pavucontrol is a handy mixer with a GUI AND assuming you do not have ‘pipewire-session-manager’ installed).
sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack wireplumber pavucontrol
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