Most volume boosters are a bare gain slider — push them past 200% and the sound turns to mush. SoundLift puts a real limiter after the boost, so loud stays clean. Night mode evens out films, and a 10-band equalizer shapes the rest.
Four controls, no account, nothing running in the background.
A limiter and soft saturation sit after the gain stage. Measured on a rendered sine at 600%: peak 0.965, never past full scale, and far less distortion than the raw clipping every bare-gain booster produces.
Compresses the dynamic range so whispered dialogue is audible and the explosion two seconds later does not wake the house. Measured: speech +13.8 dB, bangs −3.0 dB.
32 Hz to 16 kHz, ±12 dB per band, with presets for films, speech and music. Drag a band and hear it instantly.
YouTube at 100%, that quiet lecture site pinned at 400% with night mode on. Settings are stored per site and applied when you come back.
Alt+Shift+↑ / ↓ for volume, Alt+Shift+N for night mode, Alt+Shift+0 to reset — without opening the popup.
No “read your data on all websites”. Only activeTab: the extension can touch a page solely at the moment you click the icon or press a shortcut.
You turn it up to catch the dialogue, then dive for the volume when the action starts. Night mode closes that gap: quiet parts come up, loud parts are held back — so you can leave the volume alone.
Numbers measured on rendered audio, not estimated: a −30 dB dialogue and a −6 dB bang pushed through the actual processing chain.
Most volume boosters ask to read your data on every website you visit. This one does not.
The honest answers, including what it cannot do.
No — and no extension can. Those services use DRM-protected audio that the browser deliberately keeps out of reach of any processing. Everything else works: YouTube, Twitch, Kick, lectures, webinars, podcasts, local files opened in a tab.
That is exactly what the limiter is for. Boost happens first, then a fast limiter and soft saturation catch the peaks, so nothing goes past full scale. On a rendered test at 600% the peak stays at 0.965 with far less distortion than plain clipping.
Because it does not need it. It uses activeTab, which grants access only when you deliberately invoke the extension. The trade-off: after a page reload you may need to open the popup once more.
Compressing dynamic range. Quiet passages are lifted and loud peaks held back, so the distance between a whisper and an explosion shrinks from about 24 dB to 7 dB. The strength slider goes from barely-there to almost everything at one level.
No. The processing is a handful of native Web Audio nodes running inside the page — the same engine every web player already uses. Nothing runs on pages you have not activated.
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