The ALSA Utilities package contains various utilities which are useful for controlling your sound card
root@Minnowboard:~# apt-get install alsa-utils
Audio, Kernel Drivers Tests
Are the sound card drivers being installed correctly?
Connect your USB Audio Device or Camera with built-in Microphone
user@Minnowboard:~$ lsusb
[62450.348474] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[62450.437700] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0d8c, idProduct=013c
[62450.437710] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[62450.437717] usb 1-1.4: Product: USB PnP Sound Device
[62450.437723] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: C-Media Electronics Inc.
[62450.446465] input: C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device
as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.3/0003:0D8C:013C.0007/input/input14
[62450.501053] hid-generic 0003:0D8C:013C.0007: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.00 Device
[C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.4/input3
user@Minnowboard:~$ lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0d8c:013c C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM108 Audio Controller