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How to make audio louder in soundbooth

// November 27th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Adobe Soundbooth

This is my first post relared to adobe soundbooth series, its related to most common issue in sound recording, specially when you are using low quality audio capturing equipment like a normal pc mic with builtin audio card etc.

If you are facing same problem, you only need is to have adobe soundbooth or adobe audition. As for the specific series of post i will use the adobe soundbooth. You can convert these steps to any of the software you want to use.

So Lets get started!.

There are many possible ways in which you can make sound louder in soundbooth like using Normalize function, other is by using amplify, another technique use the hardlimiting.

Here in this tutorial i will use both the Normalize and Amplify to make the sound louder.

First lets see how this can be done using Normalize

First open the file in the soundbooth. In my example it a voice over and you can see how it has much lower waves graph. it really bad sound.

Click the Louder button, which is by default in lower right hand side of your screen. What this button does is that it Normalize the sound to -3dB or in other words boost the sound by 3dB each time you click the button.

As you click the button you could see its effect in the waves graph. The waves are bigger now, that what you need.

In my case the file has been restored to sound level i want but if its not done in your case please click the lounder button again to nomalize to anther -3dB.

Now i use second way to make it louder that is throught amplification.

Open the file, and click and drag on the increase/decrease the amplitude value, its to the left side of the louder button. As you will do this you will see the changes in the wave graph, just that much simple amplify it to what ever limit you want

You can also enter the value instead of click and drag just double click the value and put the desired value in the text box.Thats quite easy i think

What if you want to increast the volume of just a specific part of sound.

Simple! just select any part you want to increase the sound of by just click and drag on that part of sound in main edit panel, as you will select you can see a amplification contols on the top of selectio are appeared just do same click and drag or enter the value by your self,     you got what want

Thats all in this tutorial, next tutorial in this series would be to how we can level off the sound or clip the higher frequecies so that the sound plays smoother. Please be in touch.