sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
qpaeq
There was an error connecting to pulseaudio, please make sure you have the pulseaudio dbus module loaded, exiting...
then load these two modules using pactl
:
pactl load-module module-equalizer-sink
pactl load-module module-dbus-protocol
~/.config/pulse/default.pa
(create it if necessary) and add these lines:load-module module-equalizer-sink
load-module module-dbus-protocol
from https://askubuntu.com/questions/980876/how-do-i-start-pulseaudio-equalizer