Yes, thanks.  I was trying to put that into words - the volume sliders change (multiply or divide) all volumes up or down   <br><br>for example, you listen to a quiet piece of music and turn up the volume in the output device tab (or any volume setting, actually.<br> <br>The next piece is especially loud, and it blows your ears out.   It could have been recorded that way, or somebody decided to mix it up or down or whatever.   A limiter would not play sounds above a certain volume, leaving all other sounds alone (not reducing or amplifying). <br> <br> I don't know if the best thing is to <br>1 clip at some limit (which would sound harsh)<br>2 or see if a sample is above the limit and just drop the sample (not send it to the device at all) and go to the next sample <br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Michal Sawicz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michal@sawicz.net">michal@sawicz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dnia 2008-11-23, nie o godzinie 23:41 +0000, Colin Guthrie pisze:<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">> You just need to set the hardware volume of the sink. You can do this<br> > in<br> > pavucontrol under the device, not the stream.<br> <br> </div>I think you misunderstood, what you can set in the volume control is,<br> actually, amplification. It always multiplies the 'incoming' volume by a<br> set amount.<br> <br> What Sanjeev meant, is that he would like to limit the outgoing volume<br> regardless of the input volume, so actually he meant compression.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Michal Sawicz <<a href="mailto:michal@sawicz.net">michal@sawicz.net</a>><br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> _______________________________________________<br> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a><br> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>