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How to Increase the Volume in Music

When you increase volume in music or any other sound, it will be perceived as louder by anyone listening to it. On your home stereo, for example, you might increase the volume to better hear certain frequencies of a song, such as the bass, while in a piece of music, one part might increase in volume relative to another part if the composer wishes for it to draw the listener's attention.

Instructions

    • 1

      Press the "Volume Up" button on a CD player, radio or other audio component to increase volume.

    • 2

      Draw a crescendo ("<") sign below the bar in a piece of music. When the music is played, it will crescendo, or get louder, over any span of music marked with a crescendo sign.

    • 3

      Click "Insert Plugin" on a track in a digital audio workstation, and select a compressor. Turn up "Gain" while turning down "Threshold" to reduce the dynamic range of an audio track. This will make the track sound louder and flatter when played back.

    • 4

      Plug a line-level signal coming from a sound board into an "Input" jack on a power amp using a TRS cable. Connect the power amp "Output" jacks to speaker "Input" jacks. Turn everything on, and any music coming from the mixer will be amplified and sent over a speaker system.

    • 5

      Turn up the "Bass" level on your stereo's EQ. Low-frequency sound waves travel further, which will cause music to sound louder and potentially more obnoxious. How well this works will depend on the quality of your speakers.

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