Comment 107 for bug 275998

I think software volume boost (both capture and playback) is a fantastic idea - wouldn't it be great if alsa incorporated it into the hardware controls as standard once you adjust past 100%? (On my XPS M1530 the playback volume is very low - I need to have everything set to near 100% to make it audible.)

Having it in pulseaudio is a great idea as well (if only pulseaudio worked consistently).

@mabawsa - thanks for the tip. It works for me in skype, although not in sound-recorder (presumably because the new control doesn't appear in gnome-sound-properties, so you can't assign it as the default gnome sound capture device).