KDE sounds are much too loud

After doing a system update a few weeks ago, all of a sudden, no matter what the master volume currently is set to, KDE blares the notification noises at 100%. It is quite a bother. I have tried fiddling with the sound channel levels in alsamixer, but to no avail. After searching for the problem on the internet, I found one other person with the same problem, but I couldn't get his solution to work for me:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=104786.0
Namely, my PCM volume was already higher than the master volume.
Thank you for your time.

I solved using "/usr/bin/paplay" as a custom player for notifications (the playback options in the system notifications tab of KDE control center).
EDIT: never mind, that apparently didn't work...
EDIT 2: nope, it actually does work! Just had to restart KDE!
Last edited by palmaway (2014-07-16 02:12:55)

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