How to boost volume?

[Danny Hays]

A compressor plugin will do it. You can raise the quiet parts and not the louder parts.
There’s aready one by default in each audio track in Sony Vegas. Try the 4:1 – 10:1 presets and let us know what you think.

[Ken Bennett]

That did the trick. Thanks.

Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
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[John Rofrano]

You also might want to normalize the clips. Right-click the audio event and select Switches | Normalize. This will bring the volume up without having to use the compressor. Then you can use the compressor to make it even louder if needed.

~jr

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[Stephen Mann]

I use the free program: Levelator.

It was written for podcasters, but it is like magic on dialogue files.

Steve Mann

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for the tip on Levelator Steve. From what I see it only comes as an external pgm and not a plugin?

I’ll give it a try as I often could use it for recorded interviews.
Gilles

[Stephen Mann]

You just render your best audio from vegas to a wav file, drop it onto Levelator, then bring the resulting file back into Vegas.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Got it! Thanks!
G

[Roger Bansemer]

I tried this out but it’s really bringing up the quiet passages to the audio which defeats the purpose for me. I’d love to have something smooth out my audio when I for instance turn my head away from the mike. Any more thoughts on this?

[John Rofrano]

Levelator does what you would have to do manually to smooth out the volume. If Levalator doesn’t do a good job, then manually adjusting is the only other choice. When your head moves off axis from the mic, you not only get a drop in volume but a change in tonal characteristics. Lavalator will only increase the volume but it will not match the tone. You would have to do that manually.

~jr

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