sound volume

[Spider Mycron]

Hello,

  i got lost really and need advice please

every time i upload a sound file then play it it sounded low , i tried to make it very lauder in my pc but the result is all same

any idea please ?

Thanks

[Madelaine McMasters]

Low sound volume is a common complaint in SL. There's no way to play sounds louder than 1.0, so you have to boost the amplitude before importing.

At a minimum, every sound file should be normalized, meaning that the loudest passage in the clip should be made nearly as loud as possible. Normalize does this.

If that's not enough, compressing the loud portions of the clip so you can boost the softer portions should help.

Both Normalize and Compressor are functions of my go-to free sound editor, Audacity.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/normalize.html
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/compressor.html

 

Edited May 25, 2021 by Madelaine McMasters

[Quistess Alpha]

5 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

There's no way to play sounds louder than 1.0

I have seen some gestures which play the same sound multiple times on top of each other. It's a bad problematic (echo) practice, but it does seem to work to a degree.

[Spider Mycron]

Thank you both