Ah, well, no LiveISO I've tried has worked. I've tried two different versions of Manjaro (Xfce and Gnome), Antergos (to see if it was a Manjaro and not arch problem), Fedora (to see if my previous distribution would work), and Ubuntu 14.04 (to see if older software would work and maybe it was a bleeding edge problem). The stranger part of this is that my Windows install has pretty much the same issue except that sound comes back if I move a youtube player around to another buffered area of the video, instead of being permanently muted. That's why I was wondering if this was somehow a hardware issue and not a config file issue earlier, its persistent across distributions and OSes. Could Grub be causing it? That's the only thing I can think of that ultimately effects both OSes.
I'll try removing all alsa and jack files and then rebooting and installing them. I'll report back to see if that changes anything.
Thanks for all your help btw, its nice that there is someone else trying to help because this was driving me crazy when I was trying to figure it out by myself.
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Also, I forgot to mention that when I try to remove the state-daemon.conf part it says that there isn't a file of that type. How important is that file and should I have it in the first place?