Excuse me if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find an immediate answer in a search, so here is my question:
Is there a way to adjust the "baseline" volume level of songs transferred to the iPod, when using the Sound Check feature?
In another words, I was wondering if there was an adjustment similar to the "adjustment" amount setting in the DSP Studio >> Volume Leveling, but when playing back music on the iPod with Sound Check enabled.
I really like to not have to constantly turn up/down music while listening to random tracks, but it seems the iPod drastically reduces the output volume so much that I can't turn the music up load enough on headphones and especially on my portable iPod dock. When I first bought the Logitech portable speaker system I have (after reading great reviews), I was really disappointed at how loud it would get. It wasn't until I accidentally had sound check turned off that I noticed the thing would get over twice as loud as I had ever heard it -- so much so it blasts out a good size room. Enabling sound check, especially on some tracks, can reduce the volume almost (what I perceive to be) like a quarter of what it was.
Here is kinda what I would wish for (realizing I don't really know how the iPod does it's own math)... say I have a track that has a replay gain of -14dB and another one that is -4db. Instead of the Ipod adjusting the sound down that exact amount, I would rather have a higher baseline, say of +6. In essence, now, the iPod would play the first track at -8db and the second at +2db. I understand this would normally probably cause clipping in some peaks, but so I've read the iPod has a limiter when using sound check.
Does anyone have any ideas (realizing that I do not want to manually update all the tracks replay gain higher)?
RESOLVED in 12.0.94 - Woo hoo! MC now boosts the sound check values by +6db (confirmed). I would still prefer to have an actual adjustment "setting", but this will do for me for now. Thank you guys!