Increase sound volume

[cowboy]

I don't see the "limiter" option under the "effect" pulldown ?

p.s. Thanks Gale, duhhh, I missed the tab at the bottom, was looking on top of the post at the various buttons

[steve]

I don't see the "limiter" option under the "effect" pulldown ?

Perhaps you are using an old version of Audacity.
The current version is Audacity 2.1.1. Look in "Help > About Audacity" to check the version number.
If your version is not 2.1.1, then get the current version from here: http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows

[cowboy]

I installed 2.1.1, still don't see it ??

[steve]

In the list of effects, look below the dividing line.

[cowboy]

Found it,
I did look there before, not sure why I didn't see it, maybe I had to restart the PC 1st ??

In any case I ran as mentioned and it did work, although not much of an increase ?
I played both, and to the ear, it might have gained one click on a volume dial....
So is there a way to get even more vol ?

[steve]

So is there a way to get even more vol ?

In the Limiter, increase the "Input Gain" and/or decrease the "Limit to" setting.
If it is a stereo track, both *Left and Right" Input Gain settings should be the same. If the track is mono, only the first (Input Gain, Left/Mono" is used.
Note that at extreme settings, it will start to sound weird

[steve]

Here's the manual for the Limiter effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/limiter.html

[Gale Andrews]

Found it, I did look there before, not sure why I didn't see it, maybe I had to restart the PC 1st ??

No, one objective of the Plug-in Manager is that you don't need to restart Audacity after enabling plugins.


Gale

[cowboy]

made adjustments as described and worked.

Now a follow up question, if you had to do many of these, is there a way to write a script file
to adjust/change the same parameters that audacity did ?

[steve]

made adjustments as described and worked.

Now a follow up question, if you had to do many of these, is there a way to write a script file
to adjust/change the same parameters that audacity did ?

What exact step and settings did you use to achieve the desired result?