I’ve always found it really annoying when watching movies on my PC that some scenes are super loud and some scenes I can barely hear what is going on. I understand they are trying to make it as realistic as possible, but it’s really annoying if you can’t crank up the speakers all the way or if you’re not able to use headphones.
This is especially true at night or in a public place where I’m listening to something on my laptop and suddenly there is really loud dance music or loud action scenes. What do I normally do? Well, I manually turn down the volume until the loud scenes are over and then I turn the volume back up later on.
I’ve been super frustrated with this for a long time until I found a cool program called Sound Lock that works for Windows which will limit the sound output level on your computer! Basically, it’s really a simple piece of software. You just tell it the max sound level you want and it will make sure that the volume never goes above that.
But you’re probably like “Well, can’t I just reduce the volume on my computer to 50% and it would be the same thing?”. Nope! So the program doesn’t just turn down your volume. It plays back quieter scenes at a normal volume and then turns the volume down if something becomes really loud.
This is exactly what I wanted because I could listen to the dialogues clearly, but whenever a loud scene started playing, it would keep the volume at the lower level that I set it too.
Once you install the software, it’ll pop up in your system tray and if you click on it, you’ll see the following sound adjuster:
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