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Is it possible to set the default sound level more than 100%?

Every time after booting I've to manually increase the sound level from the sound settings which is a bit irritating.

I am using Ubuntu 13.04

Nishant Jadhav
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kkdeep
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  • Are you able to manually increase it above 100? How? Possibly related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/111930/how-can-i-increase-volume-beyond-max-in-xubuntu, http://askubuntu.com/questions/219739/adjust-max-possible-volume-in-pulseaudio – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Feb 22 '15 at 13:47
  • yes it does. but the sound quality deteriorates. thanks anyway. –  Jul 13 '16 at 21:53

3 Answers3

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Using the following command in terminal, you can set sound level as you wish:

pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 150%

In this case we have set the volume of the sink #0 to 150%.

Now, if you want to set this setting as default at startup, add the above command in /etc/rc.local file. You can use sudo -H gedit /etc/rc.local to open an edit this file:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 150%

exit 0
Radu Rădeanu
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in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, you can simply open Settings and after that search for "sound" or just click on the Sound tab on the left side of the Settings panel. After that press "Over-Amplification" and change your max sound volume to more than 100% (more details on the screenshot below)

Sound volume up

alexey boltynov
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  • It only goes up to 150% though. The accepted answer can go beyond that. – bwdm Jan 10 '22 at 21:13
  • that's fanny, @bwdm because it's a hack in the accepted answer and you can kill your sound card or something else, if you'll use a sound level of more than 150%, it's unsafe and dangerous. – alexey boltynov Jan 17 '22 at 20:23
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pactl list short sinks

Sample output:

0  SymbolicNameHere  value value value valueHz  RUNNING

To increase volume:

 pactl set-sink-volume SymbolicNameHere value%

Supporting Answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/565397/430146

Leon Africa
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