[Farinhir]

Originally Posted by Von Manteuffel

@Farinhir

There are two ways to get the radio louder:

1. In the Audio Settings menu you can put the Radio Volume to max and lower all the others. ( I prefer period music to in-game "mood" music so I actually uncheck it.)You might have to raise the Master Sound Control. It's a bit of trial and error, but all the levels can be accessed in-game via "escape" so a few minutes fiddling mught give you an acceptable result.

I understood this. My master and radio volume are maxed out but I still can not get a good sound out of the ingame radio without blasting my speakers. The game volume might sound fine, but if someone were to sign in on trillian then my poor ears (and this happens quite often).

Originally Posted by Von Manteuffel

2. Process all your audio files into Mp3s and then use a batch "Volume Gain" program to increase their volume by several dBs. For my "Instant Radio" files I increased the volume of the tracks to 96.5 from an average of around 85. I don't think there's a batch gain-changer for .ogg files, or wavs - only mp3s.

The problem with increasing the replay gain is that you begin to run the risk of "clipping". This does not sound good when it happens. Basaically, a good understanding of the physics of sound tells me to not use a something to increase replaygain. When I play MP3 on foobar2k (best player out there) I usually have it reduce the replaygain to normalize everything at an amplitude which will give about 98dB max. For some files this means it boosts it, but most of the time it reduces it. This prevents sound clipping from happening in general. Basically, there is a very limited bandwidth for this signal to go through, and increasing the amplitude of the signal will use much more of that bandwidth.

Thanks anyways,
~F~



FYI, dB is a measure of loudness based upon the displacement of air from the sound source (think pressure here). While amplitude is an actual measure of how intence the signal is. Not that anyone cares. I just think that using "dB" when talking about increasing the loudness of the digital signal is silly. Just my 2 cents there. People can use whatever measure they like, I am just stating why I find it silly. have fun.