At this point,you've actually made it louder, but at the cost of distortion. If you boost the bass (or if you boost anything) you'll usually "see red". Most commercial music is normalized/maximized to 0dB (or near 0dB). However, if you play the file at full-digital volume you'll clip your digital-to-analog converter or if you export to (regular) WAV or make an audio CD, it will be clipped. If you go over 0dB Audacity will "show red" for potential clipping (distortion).Īudacity uses floating-point internally so there is virtually no upper (or lower) limit and Audacity itself won't clip. I believe the default is for Audacity to Show Clipping. It takes a big woofer to make strong-deep bass.ĭoes "reducing the volume of everything" refer to using normalize?Yes, it's related. 1 Watt at 1kHz sounds louder than 1W at 100Hz. The equal-loudness curves also show that the ear is most-sensitive a mid frequencies (around 2kHz which are perceived as rather "high pitched) so it takes more energy for low frequencies to sound equally loud. But, that's gone out of style.Īnd there are a couple of other things going against you. I the "old days" most stereo receivers had a loudness compensation switch (usually labeled "Loudness") that would boost the bass as the volume was turned-down. There's a characteristic of human hearing that when you turn-down the volume it seems like the bass was turned-down ( Equal Loudness Curves). And of course, some headphones will have more bass than others.Īt more "reasonable" levels you won't feel the bass, and the bass will seem to be reduced even more. With headphones you don't experience bass the same way, although you might feel the headphones vibrating. If you have a good stereo (including big woofers/subwoofers) and you crank it up to "live levels" you should also be able to feel the bass in your chest.So with most music you shouldn't have to boost the bass.īut, the average home stereo can't put-out that kind of deep-powerful bass.
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If you listen to live music you can usually feel the bass in your chest. What's the real issue? To you have few songs with weak bass or do you just like a lot of bass? Or did I just hit the goal? You want Audacity to do all the work. Song matching is a master class in audio production. If your real goal is to make songs match in a play list but only some of them have boosted bass, then all the songs have to be quieter to make up for the bass that may not get there for two or three songs. Once you export the sound file, all the rules come back and high bass notes will either distort (buzzy bass) or on some systems cause music pumping or fuzzy melody line. That stops working when you leave Audacity. For example, if you apply an effect or filter that accidentally boosts the volume, you can just bring the volume back to normal later. Audacity uses a special sound format that allows you to get too loud without any damage. You can boost the bass volume inside Audacity because Audacity doesn't overload. They are an overall volume change, once per song. The way you want to do it, with the bass track stiff and firm in your headphones, yes.Īmplify and Normalize do the same thing. So does this mean no matter what a bass boosted song will sound quieter than the original song? Of course the same thing can happen with speakers, but it usually takes big speakers & big amplifiers. Although your hearing seems to come back after awhile there may be a tiny bit of permanent loss each time.
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If you "feel deaf" after listening you are probably accumulating hearing loss.
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Compression and limiting reduces (compresses) the dynamics which can be boring, but I guess lots of people like it.īe careful with loud headphones.
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That's how modern Loudness War music is produced (but it's unlikely you can get the same results as a pro mastering engineer with experience and professional software). That can make "everything constantly loud". You might also want to try some compression/limiting. If you find yourself boosting the bass with most music you may need better headphones (or headphones with more bass) or you may just have a preference for lots of bass, and in that case it would be best to boost the bass at playback-time rather than adjusting all of your files.
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However, the analog volume into your ears is only limited by your amplifier and headphones/speakers.Maybe you need a bigger headphone amplifier.Ĭertain amplifiers also have analog EQ or bass & treble controls. Then if they want to maximize loudness they'll try to get the most loudness with minimal damage to overall sound quality. Pros usually start by trying to get the best overall sound before working on "loudness". As you probably know, there's a digital peak-limit of 0dB so if you boost the bass you may have to lower the overall digital volume.