Hey Mycroft, stop screaming at me (Raspiaudio Mic+)

I’m setting up a Picroft using the default Raspbian image and installing Mycroft from the Github repo. The hardware is a Pi B+ with a Mic+ hat from Raspiaudio. Everything has gone swimmingly so far except for one tiny detail. Mycroft seems to be stuck at Max volume.

I’ve used the alsamixer to try to change the volume, and it seems to be changing the volume for pretty much everything else on the Pi, but not for Mycroft. I feel like I’m out of my depth here and could use some advice.

My asound.conf looks like this:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm plugequal;
}

ctl.!default {
type hw card 0
}

ctl.equal {
type equal;
}

pcm.plugequal {
type equal;
slave.pcm “plughw:0,0”;
}

pcm.equal {
type plug;
slave.pcm plugequal;
}

I’m using the command alsamixer -D equal to run the mixer as the pi user. What else am I missing here?