@hikari does it have a way to disable loopback? i could see (possibly kind of bad) reasons to want to do that in software instead

@leo i'm not using loopback here, my earphones are connected to the pedal's output and the pedal is receiving audio from my laptop and simultaneously processing guitar input

not sure if it has a loopback function for the audio interface, wouldn't be surprised if it does though

@leo if i wanted to, i could connect my earphones to my laptop's 3.5mm output instead, and then have my laptop do a soft-passthru of the audio output from the pedal output (received via usb) to the laptop output, which would produce a similar overall result to my current setup except having worse latency and more noise (laptop's 3.5mm output sucks)

@leo oh, wait! do you mean having the normal pedal output be suppressed for the headphone output, and instead it only outputs what is received via usb? i think that'd be called disabling monitoring rather than disabling loopback. i would have to check the manual…

@hikari yeah, i was calling it loopback bc of the pulseaudio module name lol

@leo i checked and there's an option in the pedal's settings to adjust the monitoring balance, by default it's 50:50 incoming usb audio vs pedal output, but you could set it to 100:0 for the use case you envision

@leo “loopback” is fun because it's both a thing you might want a computer to do (mix microphone/guitar audio with outgoing computer audio and send it back to the audio interface for listening) and a thing you might want an audio interface to do (mix microphone/guitar audio with incoming computer audio and send it back to the computer for recording), and indeed both kinds of loopback exist!