Persistent virtual audio cables

Currently running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS X64 I'm extremely new to linux as a whole so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm attempting to set up virtual audio cables for recording and I've managed to find that using pulseaudio I can have them, but it will not persist through a reboot. I was told to make a file called default.pa in ~/.config/pulse directory and what I have in there at the moment is

.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
.ifexists module-virtual-sink.so
load-module module-virtual-sink sink_name=VAC_1
load-module module-virtual-sink sink_name=VAC_2
load-module module-virtual-sink sink_name=VAC_3

but it was not working after a reboot and even attempting to format it the same as the command I run in Terminal to make them. The command I am running to make the audio channels normally is

pactl load-module module-virtual-sink sink_name=VAC_1

I'm sure I am doing something wrong but, as I am inexperienced, I am lost.