Some songs have a lot of bass in them, or are just too loud for the microphone. This makes them sound bad when played. This article will teach you how to reduce the bass and volume for your sound using a program called GoldWave.
Please only follow this article AFTER you have converted your wav by following the
Converting Wavs guide on this website. GoldWave will NOT be used for converting your wav, but only for reducing the bass and volume, so you should have the wav properly converted before hand.
Step 1
- You are going to need to download and install GoldWave if you haven't already. You can find it in the downloads section. After it's installed, open it up. By default you will see a help file. Just close out of that, you wont need it.
Step 2
- Now that the GoldWave is open, click the open button 
. Locate your wav that you would like to reduce the bass or volume in, and open it up. There is a single method that will work with every sound that is too loud, or had too much bass. After the wav is open, you may notice that the green and red bars are touching the top of the chart. You want these to be short and not too tall to where they are touching the top and bottom of the grid. So heres how to adjust it:
- Click 'Effect' at the top of the program, point to 'Filter', and finally click Equalizer. In the window that pops up, you will see a bar that looks like this:
Move the bar to the left to lower the bass and volume. You can preview how it will sound be clicking 
to play, and 
to stop the preview. You will have to re-click play each time you adjust the volume to hear the new outcome. Normally you only need to mode this bar just a little bit to the left. It doesn't need to be way over in the green or else you might not even hear the sound. Click OK when you are ready to adjust this Master (dB) setting, and it will take a moment to do its job. Once it's done, you will notice that the green and red lines have shrunk... which is what you want! Now just click File > Save and you're all done! It should be ready to play with HLSS!
This article was last updated July 21, 2007.
