Soundblaster AE-5 100% Muted on alsamixer every boot!!

[David <DavidRLTG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am on Linux Mint Wilma (22), 64-bit.
Obviously, I have a Soundblaster AE-5 Sound card
The issue I am encountering is, well, every boot I have to enter Alsamixer and unmute every channel on my Soundblaster AE-5.

alsactl store does nothing, and yes I ran it as superuser.
Also, I'm on pipewire! I think Wilma comes with it preinstalled.

sudo alsactl store is also temporary, the config is lost at every reboot, and doing sudo alsactl restore does nothing.

Any ideas for a fix?