Boosting volume above 100%?, Like to the volume bar feature in VLC. Options

[pweaves]

I lack the technical knowledge to search for terms in posts already made regarding this, so my bad if this has been answered.



I'm looking for a volume feature similar to the hi-lighted part of the picture I've linked. As far as I know, Foobar2000 doesn't come stock with anything like that, so I was wondering if there are extensions/plugins/whatevah available out there to achieve this.
That's all.

Thanks for reading.

This post has been edited by pweaves: Aug 8 2012, 05:10

[Kohlrabi]

As far as I understand that feature of VLC, raising the volume above 100% will apply additional gain to the signal, which then might and will very likely lead to clipping distortion, depending on the source file. I'm not aware of any clipping protection in VLC. You'd better use the knob on your speakers or headphones, or the Windows mixer, if you need more loudness.

To answer your question, in foobar2000 you can add an equalizer to your DSP chain, and apply positive gain to all bands to get the same effect.

EDIT: You can also preamp your files with positive gain, in Preferences > Playback.

This post has been edited by Kohlrabi: Aug 8 2012, 07:54

[pweaves]

Thanks man, I'll look into that. I've got an entire 320/FLAC library, which is why I've noticed very little distortion and would rather have this capability than not.
But yeah, thanks again, I wasn't expecting such a fast response.

[probedb]

Thanks man, I'll look into that. I've got an entire 320/FLAC library, which is why I've noticed very little distortion and would rather have this capability than not.
But yeah, thanks again, I wasn't expecting such a fast response.

I don't think the format has anything to do with you noticing distortion.

Anyways, just leave windows at it's max 100% and use the volume knob on your amp to crank it up, that's what it's for

[dhromed]

I've got an entire 320/FLAC library, which is why I've noticed very little distortion

What does this have to do with the volume?

If you only have specific tracks that you find too soft, you can manually edit the replaygain value for a boost.

[frogworth]

The other thing you can do is analyse your whole music library with ReplayGain, which will attempt to normalize the volume or loudness or whatever you'd like to call it of all your music. So older un-remastered records will match newer loudness-wars ones

I don't actually particularly like this, because I listen to a lot of new music off CD or downloaded from Bandcamp and so on, and I found it hard to set foobar correctly so that un-ReplayGain-tagged files don't suddenly jump out. Probably a way though.

[Kohlrabi]

I don't actually particularly like this, because I listen to a lot of new music off CD or downloaded from Bandcamp and so on, and I found it hard to set foobar correctly so that un-ReplayGain-tagged files don't suddenly jump out. Probably a way though.

It's of course not a universal solution, but you can apply negative gain to files without RG-info. I currently use -8dB pregain with great pleasure.