How to overclock my Volume

cumulusjames · 10 Dec 2010 at 22:07

Is there a way to some how increae the output volume of your system? I am at the moment listeing to 'The Riddle' by Nick Kershaw (stop it) and it just aint loud enough. I have studio quality headphones plugged into a logitech speaker system. Suffice to say the logitech thing is on full, I have turned media player full and the system volume full. But it just aint enough. I want louder. I dont care that I will be deaf by the age of 50 I just want loudness.

Is there any way to make it louder?

SoundsGood · 10 Dec 2010 at 22:10

compress it

edit: using something like this http://www.winamp.com/plugin/audio-compressor-dsp/115820

cumulusjames · 10 Dec 2010 at 22:17

SoundsGood said:
compress it

edit: using something like this http://www.winamp.com/plugin/audio-compressor-dsp/115820

thanks I will look at that tomorrow. Far too drunk now. I am on 'The living Daylights' by a-ha now. You just litesn to 80's music and it excites you. I download so many albums in search of a decent song and nothing past 1995 has any effect. I am not only after advice on my volume, while I think of it why is music so damn s*** for like the past 20 years. I was barely born when this music was made. So I could not take part in it or enjoy it. There should have been a scene for me. No scene for me and no scene for our children. Thouse who descover 80's compilations are lucky. Will pop remain in the 80's? or will it ever live again?

me227 · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:06

Look up a program called mp3gain. It'll let you change the volume of mp3s.

Ease · 11 Dec 2010 at 12:58

cumulusjames said:
Will pop remain in the 80's? or will it ever live again?

Well there's the source of your misery. Try listening to a half-decent genre, i.e., anything other than pop.

SiriusB · 11 Dec 2010 at 16:04

cumulusjames said:
I download so many albums in search of a decent song...

Downloaded via a fully licensed digital music retailer of course.

Mattus · 11 Dec 2010 at 23:01

If you really do have studio-quality headphones plugged into a Logitech speaker system, that's probably the source of your problem. Decent studio headphones have a much higher impedance (resistance) than bog-standard in-ear ones. A Logitech speaker system isn't designed to work well with them. You need a headphone amp, or at least a decent external amplifier - either that, or some different headphones. 'Compressing' the music by changing the gain might well make it seem louder, but it'll also reduce the sound quality a lot, which kinda defeats the point of having decent headphones.

PhillyDee · 11 Dec 2010 at 23:08

Look for the combined community codec pack (CCCP), it allows you to overdrive your volume to 400% (I use it on my laptop)

masterluke · 12 Dec 2010 at 13:00

as above you can use CCCP or just install ffdshow and do it from there. Also I know VLC lets you boost the volume on playback but its a little limited as a music player.

MikeHunt79 · 12 Dec 2010 at 13:18

A headphone ampis what you need...

Dynamic compression will kill the dynamics, and overdriving the volume in VLC will result in clipping which is even worse...

cumulusjames · 14 Dec 2010 at 21:58

Thanks