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Mastering, mixing, recording and fixing quiet audio — practical articles from the SoundBooster team, plus what's new.
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Introducing SoundBooster: louder, clearer, finished — in your browser
A volume booster for every tab, a mastering engineer you can talk to, and the everyday audio tools we always wished were free.
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LUFS explained: how loud should your master be?
Peak meters tell you when you'll clip. LUFS tells you how loud people will actually hear you — and why louder isn't always louder.
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True peak: the ceiling that protects your master
Your meter says the loudest sample is −0.1 dBFS. The waveform your listeners hear may go higher. Here's why.
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How to prepare your mix for mastering
Mastering can make a good mix great. It can't rescue a mix with problems baked in. Ten minutes of preparation changes everything.
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Loudness normalisation on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music
Every major platform turns loud songs down. Some turn quiet ones up. Knowing which does what saves you from over-compressing.
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Stem splitting explained: what AI separation can (and can't) do
Pulling a finished song apart used to be impossible. AI makes it routine — with a few limits worth knowing.
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Reverb, delay and echo: a practical guide
Space makes a mix feel real. Too much of it makes a mix feel distant. Here's how to use each effect on purpose.
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Critical listening: train your ears in ten minutes a day
Better plug-ins help. Better ears help more. A few minutes of focused listening a day compounds quickly.
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Audio latency and buffer size, explained
That delay between hitting a key and hearing it has a cause — and a simple fix that depends on what you're doing.
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Choosing your first microphone
The best first microphone isn't the most expensive one — it's the one that suits your room and what you record.
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Setting up studio monitors in a small room
Placement costs nothing and often improves your monitoring more than new speakers. Start here.
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Why your export sounds different from your DAW
It sounded perfect in the session. The exported file doesn't. The cause is almost always one of these.
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How to boost volume above 100% in Chrome
Chrome stops at 100%. Here's how to go further, safely, on any tab.
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YouTube volume too low? 7 fixes that work
Why some videos stay quiet at full volume — and how to make them louder.
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How to make your laptop louder
Settings to check on Windows and Mac, and how to go beyond 100%.
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How to make Google Meet and Zoom louder
Hear quiet people on calls without touching your microphone.
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How to make an MP3 louder online (without distortion)
Raise a file to a target loudness and download the louder copy.
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Why volume boosters distort — and how to boost cleanly
Clipping vs limiting, and how to boost up to 600% without crackle.
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