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How should my computer speakers be set?
Spectral Swallow
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This is going to sound stupid, but I have never been able to set my computer speakers up right.
For example, I'll be playing music and I'll have to set it at 5% volume (in winamp) for it to be a decent volume. BUT in youtube videos I have to crank it all the way to 80% for it to be a decent volume. And then some videos it's 100%, others its 50%. Then when watching a movie in VLC, I have to crank that to around 130-160% for it to be a decent volume.
Basically I'm tired of always having to adjust random soundbars.
I DO have soundlock installed, but that just adds another dimension of confusion.
Am I missing something super obvious?
For example, I'll be playing music and I'll have to set it at 5% volume (in winamp) for it to be a decent volume. BUT in youtube videos I have to crank it all the way to 80% for it to be a decent volume. And then some videos it's 100%, others its 50%. Then when watching a movie in VLC, I have to crank that to around 130-160% for it to be a decent volume.
Basically I'm tired of always having to adjust random soundbars.
I DO have soundlock installed, but that just adds another dimension of confusion.
Am I missing something super obvious?
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50% on the computer volume gives me a buffer to smash on the volume down hotkey on keyboard in those cases at least.
But, until a decent decibel regulator hits the market, we're all at the mercy of the volume set by the creator
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How is there not already some standard decibel range?
Because as soon as there was one, some soap commercial would pump the EQ to flat and the intensity to +5 over the standard maximum, so their ads would catch your attention more.
I'm like 99% sure that's illegal. Like wasn't there a court case about that?
Edit: Yep
It's an ok built in audio compressor that windows has, that should help keep things from getting too loud/soft. it's not great, but it's better then nothing.
I would go into Winamp and run ReplayGain on your song library, that will also normalize the volumes so you don't have to turn it up/down each time the track changes.
It's a pet peeve of mine that movies don't come with a built in "the kids are sleeping" setting, that you can pick. Where you can hear people talking while various disaster and alarm noises are muted to softer and gentler levels.
I set the "Loudness Equalization" option, so hopefully that does some good. I tried the replay gain, but it is suuuper slow, like I have several thousand songs and each one takes about 5 seconds. So that may be something I do later on.
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You might try downloading 'soundlock', basically it prevents the sound from being too loud. It doesn't help make things louder though.
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Have a few atm, where once game loaded, it's a nice low volume, but the start up screens, are at like heavy metal concert levels