Audio volume very low

My audio volume was very very low, and very annoyingly I had to boost to 200% 300% which had the problem that the volume buttons were not working properly. You just cant see anything above 100% unless you go into the control panel.

Now when it comes to audio I'm the village idiot, but I found a proper solution I think. After some experimentation I found that the module "module-cli-protocol-unix" ( #20 in my case) can be amplified with

pactl set-sink-input-volume 20 10db

Now YMMV depending on your attached hardware, so change the 10db to whatever suits your situation.

After that I made it permanent by adding it to the /etc/pulse/default.pa like this:

# Default volume amplification
set-sink-input-volume 20 10db

Yay!

Edited October 26, 20232 yr by Dantes