Boosting the volume through laptop speakers

jjlondonuk · Post by **jjlondonuk** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:52 pm

Anyone know of any software that allows you to up the volume through laptop speakers/headphones. Even with all the volume controls (both within the player and windows) set to max, occasionally my volume could do with a boost. Anyone ever heard of a piece of software that will do that for you?

echelon · Post by **echelon** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:05 pm

its called amplification.. I have hardware modules that do that for me.. but yes software does exist to do this.. I wrote some for a friend a few years ago.. hmm they're laying at home on some servers tho so I dont have them here.. but I'm sure u can find them online somewhere.. search for eith of these keywords: amplifier, amplication, amplify

good luck

Post by **astropoint** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:31 pm

I use BS Player which has an equlaliser which can give a sometimes much needed boost the the volume.

echelon · Post by **echelon** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:46 am

astropoint wrote:I use BS Player which has an equlaliser which can give a sometimes much needed boost the the volume.

most players have equalizers.. VLC, BS player, winamp video, even Windows Media Player... if u want a proper boost u'll need an amplifier tho!!

Post by **astropoint** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:48 am

Yes, but for simple short term "I can't hear what's going on", the equaliser is OK

echelon · Post by **echelon** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:51 am

astropoint wrote:Yes, but for simple short term "I can't hear what's going on", the equaliser is OK

I guess.. but the amplifier will give u much better quality.. I prefer to use an amplifier especially in the case that u wanna play the movie/video/music to a crowd (or at least a few ppl or a large space) then the equalizer just wont do the job.. the quality often drops quite badly when using the max on the equalizer... and good amplifying software is easy to turn off/on

CruzerMX · Post by **CruzerMX** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:16 am

winamp has loads of DSP plugins that let you tweak the sound, and give you boost as well.

CrAzYfOoL · Post by **CrAzYfOoL** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:25 pm

and winamp is fully spamable which comes in handy !

echelon · Post by **echelon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:47 am

DSP is a good point I have them in winamp but usually prefer my hardware as the hardware will at the end of the day be the more powerful.. the software can only 'copy' the hardware to a certain extent