Comment 5 for bug 514902

I don't have a default.pa.

So some more digging and googling has returned some documentation, I can now make alsa work with pulseaudio. Though, reading further it would seem a smarter thing to potentially use pulseaudio to load the ladspa plugins.

so the plughw pcm syntax should just be 'slave.pcm "plughw";'?

I can now specify a device in my default.pa as such:
load-module module-alsa-sink device=ampd

have slightly changed the .asoundrc

# was !default
pcm.ampd {
  type plug
  slave.pcm amp
}

Thanks Daniel, it is very difficult to find appropriate documentation that is correct for your system.

Please close this bug.