Program to balance speaker output for surround sound 2.1?

Install Pulse Audio Volume Controller (aka pavucontrol).

Open up your Terminal and execute these commands:

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol # Install
pavucontrol # Run

screenshot of pavucontrol gui


If you are doing it by ear, I would simply download a wide-band pink noise (which is random noise, equal energy per octave - which is the balanced sound you are after) sound file and play it back and set the levels between your speakers until they sound even.

The following link has a series of different test tones and instructions on how to use them: http://www.eminent-tech.com/music/multimediatest.html