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Hello, this is my first post in the forums but I've been here for many years. I love the site immensely and I really consider it near perfection, but my number one criticism has always been the lack of a volume control slider / button.

I don't know if it's just me, but I tend to have my headphones on a lot and my system sound on full. It may sound like a weak point, but I don't have a volume control option on my headset and I would really appreciate my best and favourite sound effects website to include the option to adjust the source audio volume when previewing wildly different submissions. Maybe a slider or knob between the 'Stop' and 'Display' buttons, at least that's where I've always expected to find one. Even if it's just to play a sound alongside another source that I wish to compare with different volumes, I think it's a long needed feature and a basic one that every sound/video hosting site should have.

Compared to all the other free sound websites alike, this is certainly my first pick and I owe a lot to the FreeSound community in my work as a foley artist and sound editor. So my best regards, whatever you choose for the future.

I would love this as well, I have the same problem with my headphones and I think it would help users find out what a certain sound would sound like at different volumes. I know I sometimes find sounds that sound like something else at different volumes and then I edit them and change them a bit but for me I never turn down my volume when listening to sounds(Not even for loud sounds) so I think this would be perfect for the site.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned this sooner.

Best Regards,
18hiltc