Volume 100% and it's still VERY quiet [SOLVED]

I FINALLY got to installing and running Arch Linux (LOVING IT!) but I have one issue so far. I have Master & PCM set to 100%, and not muted, in alsamixer and my speakers turned up all the way and the sound is very very quite.
I can faintly hear it when I put my ear up to my speakers. The cords are plugged in all the way and the speakers and sound works fine when I'm running XP on another partition.
I went to the ALSA page here on the wiki but the troubleshooting was for if you can't hear any sound. I can hear VERY little.
What could it be?!?
PS: PC Speaker is disabled in rc.conf
Last edited by Spacesurfer (2009-07-13 22:13:49)

ladspa has an amp.
You will need to follow the same steps here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … _Equalizer
And use these values instead:
label amp
id 1181
controls [ 40 ]

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