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[SOLVED] HD Audio Controller (specifically Laptop Speakers) issue

I've noticed that the Speaker Audio settings for my Laptop are quite weird on Artix Linux, - I haven't had this happen on other distros on the same machine. I am using KDE Plasma currently, but the issue persists onto other WMs and DEs. [Important addition is that I use pipewire-pulse]

The issue is, instead of the volume control going from 0-100 %, it only really works from 0-10%, with 10% volume being maxed out, sounding a bit distorted and a bit quieter than the 100% I've heard in other distros and Operating Systems. The headphone audio is completely fine.

The laptop is a fairly new one, It's an Acer Swift 3 SF314-42. Running lspci, I have found the Audio processor:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c3)
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 1637
03:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
03:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir USB 3.1
03:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir USB 3.1
03:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor (rev 01)
03:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller

I'm out of my depth here, I wouldn't know where to start to remedy this.

Edit: I've found that my speakers were using the sound card's headphone mode, so now I need to switch them any time I swap from speakers to headphones and vice-versa. Will be worth automating that process. Next step is to get volume control to work in sway/i3.