Alsa change value to limit maximum volu

Hi!

I am trying to limit the maximum allowed volume without using any softvol (I want to control direct hardware mixer, no dmix). My card is an external usb DAC, stating:

`amixer -c Balanced` Simple mixer control 'D10 Balanced',0   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined   Playback channels: Mono   Limits: Playback 0 - 127   Mono: Playback 34 [27%] [-93.00dB] [on]

Limits are from 0 to 127. I would like to tune this manually so that anything using the card in the system will (for example) never go beyond 98 (and not 127).

I noticed that this value is in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. Any possibility to change this value?

Thanks and have a nice day.

Sylvain