elliot@funbox ~ $ time amixer get Master
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 48 [75%] [-16.00dB] [on]
real 0m2.099s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.003s
elliot@funbox ~ $