diff --git a/esphome/components/es8388/es8388_component.cpp b/esphome/components/es8388/es8388_component.cpp
index 7d5b1b5678..e85fdf67e6 100644
--- a/esphome/components/es8388/es8388_component.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/es8388/es8388_component.cpp
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ namespace esphome {
 namespace es8388 {
 
 void ES8388Component::setup() {
+  PIN_FUNC_SELECT(PERIPHS_IO_MUX_GPIO0_U, FUNC_GPIO0_CLK_OUT1);
+  WRITE_PERI_REG(PIN_CTRL, READ_PERI_REG(PIN_CTRL) & 0xFFFFFFF0);
+
   // reset
   this->write_bytes(0x00, {0x80});
   this->write_bytes(0x00, {0x00});