Hi, it took me all day but I figured it out. It had nothing to do with alsa-base.conf but rather using kernel 5.16.18-051618-generic (installed with the Mainline tool) which works with this wifi fix (second answer) and detected the sound card. I then reinstalled 22.04 because I borked my install (whoops). Then I found this post (somehow) and ran the alsa commands listed:
amixer cset name='Headphone Switch' on
amixer cset name='Speaker Switch' on
amixer cset name='Headphone Playback Volume' 3,3
amixer cset name='Right Headphone Mixer Right DAC Switch' on
amixer cset name='Left Headphone Mixer Left DAC Switch' on
amixer cset name='DAC Playback Volume' 999,999
amixer cset name='Headphone Mixer Volume' 999,999
Sure enough it works now! I hope someone else finds this helpful lol