I need another way of increasing/decreasing the volume in OS X.

Long story short: The F11 and F12 volume keys on my Apple keyboard change the volume in too large of steps. There's a key combination for tiny increments, but come on... Do I really want to use two hands to press three keys just to turn up the sound a bit?
F12 turns the sound up in big increments.
ShiftOptionF12 turns the sound up in tiny increments.
My thought was to use the function keys as standard function keys (keyboard prefs option) and then use hotkey software to make F12 trigger fnShift+OptionF12. That failed because, apparently, it's impossible to create a hotkey macro that includes using the fn key. Garr!
This made me realize there must be another way to create a hotkey that turns the volume up just a little. I've tried using an applescript, but applescripts and hotkeys are apparently buggy (click the key too quickly or too lightly and you can get a loop where the Applescript executes a billion times because it thinks the key is being held down... which means the volume won't stop rapidly turning up!!!) Keyboard Maestro and Spark both seem to have this problem.
SO....
I'm trying to find creative ways to create an F12 hotkey that turns the volume up a little. And then, obviously, I'll do the same thing with F11 to turn the volume down a little.
How many ways are there to turn the volume up in small increments?
ShiftOptionF12.
Applescript.
...can you think of any others?
Are there any other key combinations? Lesser known key combinations maybe? Something else entirely?

I already own an Apogee Duet, which, among other things, serves as an amazing volume knob, but since my hands are on the keyboard already typing, I'm hoping to fix the volume keys that turn up/down too quickly unless I use two hands and three keys. No thanks.
I'm convinced there's a way to make an F12 hotkey that turns the volume up just a little instead of a full five steps. I have hotkey software (Keyboard Maestro and Spark). I'm just missing the solution that'll make it work. If I could use the fn key in a macro, this would be easy. That's why I'm seeking creative solutions I haven't thought of or that I'm just unaware of.

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