LinuxMusicians

i recently installed Linux Mint 18 Mate and installed and it was working fine until i installed KX repos on top. according to several posts iv read it seems the problem lies within Alsa

i had no sound at all until in cadence i changed device/interface to hw:1 and now the sound only comes out of the speakers and even with connected headphones only the speakers play.

however when i run alsamixer output is "This sound device does not have any controls" and the only way i can get the controls is by pressing F6 and changing the device to HDA Intel PCH everytime i run alsamixer. the controls are not muted and are all set high.

the brigde in cadence is set to ALSA -> Loop -> Jack

i know it has something to do with the "hw0/hw1" and default sound card stuff but i dont understand how it works.
i suspect this is because of something im missing, or a setting somewhere but i cant figure it out. or is it pulse audio?

i have also searched for solutions on how to fix it but nothing i have tried has worked.

Make sure the pulse to jack bridge is installed. Mint doesn't install this by default.
I disabled the loop. I don't even know why I should use this.

iv tried that and still no success. now it plays through speakers and mutes when headphones are connected.

Muted speakers when headphones are connected is usually normal. Or do you mean both the speakers and headphones are muted?