Volume low even at maximum

Question

I have an Asus UL20FT-A1 laptop whose sound at maximum is not high enough. I have to open the Sound Settings menu and go over the limitation to get a high enough level. Any idea how I can fix this?

Answer 1

Try the PCM settings in alsamixer:

• Open terminal: Ctrl+Alt+T
• Type alsamixer

You may need to select the sound card with F6 first.

Turning up all the other controls may also help

Answer 2

1. Open terminal Ctrl + Alt + T

2. Install PavuControl sudo apt install pavucontrol

3. Open PulseAudio Volume Control pavucontrol

4. Output devices Set to 100% (0dB) the port are you using (Speakers / Headphones etc)

Answer 3

You should enable "Louder than 100%" in sound settings.
This works at least in Ubuntu 17.10

Update:
Pop!_OS 21.01:

Answer 4

This works 100%...

• right click on volume icon located at top right corner of screen (ubuntu 16 )
• Select sound settings
• Go to application section and raise volume up :D enjoy your high sound..

Answer 5

If you were using GNOME 3, definitely you don't need pavucontrol or alsamixer. Instead just use gnome-tweaks to enable over-amplification (in the General tab, or in the Audio tab if any)

Answer 6

This was fixed for me by installing pavucontrol per Sorin Veștemean's answer, going to the Configuration tab and altering my USB headset output format to analog stereo output + mono input, going back to the Output Devices tab and bumping THAT output's volume up to 100% (it was at something like 50%).

Opinion: The fact that Ubuntu fails to retain my audio output settings through reboots and seemingly randomizes the configuration until I go in and manually fix it half the time with a custom-installed tool is a ridiculous usability issue.

Answer 7

If you are using LUBUNTU you might need to try pavucontrol in terminal. In my custom setup ubuntu core + openbox + lxdp I have pavucontrol managing sounds.

Answer 8

I faced volume low issue, I fixed by setting Zoom Application Volume to max.
Settings -> Sound -> Applications see here

Note : I see Zoom volume control available under Applications tab only when Zoom is running.

Ubuntu version I am running : 18.04.4 LTS
My Zoom version : 5.0.413237.0524

Answer 9

This has been an intermittent problem for me. Sound works perfectly fine in windows, but is often low or distored in Ubuntu. Most of the suggested fixes have not worked for me.

I have however found a workaround solution, which is to pair Ubuntu to Alexa via bluetooth "Alexa, Pair" and use her as my in-room speaker. I get full volume without any distortion.

Answer 10

This is what worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04:

From Terminal, I open pavucontrol (no need to install it, it is there by default), and below are the settings I did and which raised the volume on the speakers automatically:

Answer 11

When the microphone level on the system settings is > 100% (and it sometimes seems to adjust itself to > 100%) in my setting the microphone becomes almost completely silenced. The solution is to make sure that the microphone level stays < 100%.

To test microphone settings the best is to record oneself and listen to the recording.

Answer 12

It sounded very very very low to me and my solution with a Realtek ALC1220 card was to increase the volume of "Headphone" in alsamixer