How do I boost the audio of an event? Vegas 9

[solarblast]

I know how to lower the volume (grab horiz line at top of event and puill down), but how do I boost it?

[zoobie]

Lots of times with editors, you can simply copy the audio track and place it on it's own.
However, there are many volume settings on the typical computer...sound card, OS, editors, players, etc.

[aedipuss]

the audio track volume switch normally goes down or up. i usually send the audio to soundforge if it needs work. you can right click on the track and go to switches/normalize, it's the easiest way to boost volume to the max. there are also many different effects you can use to increase vloume.

[guns1inger]

You have a couple of options, in order of convenience :

1. Put the audio on it's own time line and then use the timeline master to boost the output volume. This has the advantage that you can then use the volume envelope to control the levels at various points as well.
2. Use a Non-Realtime Event FX like Volume. This requires producing a new version of the audio clip that has the changes included. Use this is you are applying other FX such as EQ etc.
3. Output the event to your audio editor and do the work there, then bring it back

[budwzr]

Use the volume booster AudioFX.

[solarblast]

I see my Subject has a typo. boost not post. Is there a way to change it? Edit seems to only get at the body.

I decided to use a single audio track and a audio volume envelope on the track. I don't seem to be getting must of a boost. The places where I need the boost are 10 sec at start and 20 sec at the end. I have 10db through the middle and about 5db above that on each end. Maybe I just need to pull the middle line down.

Yeah, that seems to work. So the envelope looks like three horizontal lines. The middle being some 10 min long. I suppose it would be good to get it absolutely flat, but it looks pretty close. The viewers can use their controls to boost it all as they need.

I guess that if one has a lot of audio events and they fade into one another, than the use of the envelope either requires lots of attention around the fades or one just lives with the rises or falls from the envelope in those areas?

[edDV]

"Edit" then "Go Advanced" lets you edit the title.

[budwzr]

When I mentioned the volume SFX, I meant you should raise the gain of the individual audio clip so the highest peak is at 0.0 db. THEN you can use the volume envelope in the track, if needed, to fine tune it.

There is only one volume envelope per track, so if you have three....? You must be using the "bar" volume. That one is just like the Volume SFX I mentioned.

You need to right click the track and INSERT a volume envelope and then you can do fades. Vegas sometimes is so simple and straightforward that a lot of the features are overlooked.

Once the volume envelope is turned on, you double click on it to make "points" and those "points" are your control for fades, just like a video fade when you have the "composite level" or "fade to" or "velocity" envelope on.

Vegas can be used just like SoundForge or Audacity, or Acid, so a big project would not be difficult.

[edDV]

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I guess that if one has a lot of audio events and they fade into one another, than the use of the envelope either requires lots of attention around the fades or one just lives with the rises or falls from the envelope in those areas?

You have lots of control if you widen the view and add volume points. You can do this on each track.


Point Properties

[budwzr]

As mentioned above, if you zoom in far enough, and widen the track, you can muffle a cough, or even a small fart.

EDIT: More likely you will want to make the fart much louder.

[solarblast]

I used points, but I see the zoom idea can be very, very helpful. Whoops, I missed Guya's first post.