SoundControl

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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• Apr 17, 2026
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  **Your audio. Your way.**
  
  SoundControl gives you two powerful modes in one extension — **Sound** for shaping and enhancing the audio, and **Spatial** for placing yourself inside the scene. Switch between them instantly, or let **Auto** choose the right mode based on what you're watching.
  
  Works on **YouTube, Twitch, and Vimeo.**
  
  > ⚠️ DRM-protected sites (Netflix, Disney+, Tidal, Spotify) use browser-level encryption that blocks audio processing in all browser extensions — this is a platform limitation, not specific to SoundControl.
  
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  ### 🎛️ Sound Mode — Shape the Audio
  
  17 presets plus full custom control:
  
  **Smart**
  ⚡ **Auto-Enhance** — Analyses your audio in real time, maps the EQ curve, and locks in the optimal enhancement for that specific video. Set-and-forget intelligence.
  
  **Enhance**
  🗣️ **Vocal Clarity** — Lifts dialogue and vocals above background noise. Great for interviews, commentary, and talk videos.
  🔊 **Bass Boost** — Deep, punchy low end without muddiness.
  ✨ **Bright** — Crisp, airy top end. Great for acoustic music and detail-heavy content.
  🎵 **Warm** — Analog-style richness. Rolled-off highs, full mids.
  📢 **Loudness** — Fuller, louder sound with controlled dynamics.
  
  **Space**
  ↔️ **Wide Stereo** — Expands the soundstage beyond your headphones.
  🎬 **Cinema Room** — Enveloping reverb, deep bass. Movie theatre atmosphere.
  🏠 **Intimate Room** — Cozy and present, like a small recording studio.
  🌤️ **Open Air** — Spacious, natural, and bright. Sky above, bass-light.
  
  **Content**
  🎙️ **Podcast** — Optimised for spoken word. Clear voice, no rumble.
  🎶 **Music Video** — Balanced for produced music. Respects the original mix.
  🤫 **ASMR** — Enhanced binaural detail. Ultra-wide, boosted high-end.
  📻 **Lo-Fi** — Warm, muted, background-friendly. Tape character.
  
  **Utility**
  🌙 **Night Mode** — Heavy compression and bass compensation for quiet late-night listening.
  ⚪ **Mono Centre** — Collapses to mono. For single-ear listening or accessibility.
  
  **Your Sound**
  🎛️ **Custom** — Full manual control: Bass, Mid, Treble, Width, Reverb, Compression, Warmth. Your own settings, saved automatically.
  
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  ### 🎧 Spatial Mode — Place Yourself in the Scene
  
  18 POV scenes across 4 categories:
  
  🎵 **Music**
  🎤 **Front Row** — Close to the stage. Main sound directly ahead, crowd behind.
  👥 **Midfield** — Mid-crowd. Stage further away, crowd energy surrounding you.
  🎸 **On Stage** — On stage with the artist. Monitors and crowd from all sides.
  🎪 **Festival** — Massive outdoor festival with PA towers. Sky above, bass everywhere.
  🎷 **Jazz Club** — Small intimate venue. Musicians close, room warmth all around.
  🎻 **Orchestra** — Concert hall. The full orchestra fills the space below and ahead.
  
  🏟️ **Sports**
  ⚽ **Sideline** — Field-level. Action slightly left-front, stadium rising around you.
  🏟️ **Stands** — Stadium seating. Pitch far below, crowd chanting left and right.
  🏀 **Courtside** — Right at the court. Action close, arena crowd towering above.
  🥊 **Ringside** — At the boxing ring. Crowd surrounding from all sides.
  🏎️ **F1 Pit Lane** — Cars sweep past at close range, engine roar left to right.
  🦅 **Aerial** — Bird's-eye view. All sound rises from far below.
  
  🎬 **Cinema**
  🎬 **Front Row** — Screen towers above you. Audio in the near-field.
  📽️ **IMAX Centre** — Massive curved screen, surround channels filling the space.
  🎞️ **Back Row** — Screen distant ahead, room reflections filling the space.
  
  🌿 **Ambient**
  🌿 **Immersive** — Full 360° ambient wrap for nature, ambient, and environmental videos.
  🎙️ **Close-up** — Intimate near-field for interviews, podcasts, and quiet content.
  
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  ### ⚡ Auto Mode — Just Turn It On
  
  SoundControl can run completely hands-free:
  
  - **Auto mode** reads the video title and switches between Sound and Spatial automatically — "concert" and "live" trigger Spatial, "podcast" and "interview" stay in Sound.
  - **Auto-Enhance** (Sound mode) analyses your audio for ~5 seconds on each new video and locks in the optimal EQ. It adapts to *that video*, not a generic curve.
  - **Auto-Scene** (Spatial mode) detects content type from the title and tracks real-time energy levels to dynamically shift your POV — quiet verse pulls you close, loud chorus puts you in the crowd.
  
  ---
  
  ### How It Works
  
  SoundControl uses the Web Audio API to process audio entirely within your browser:
  
  - **Sound mode** uses a multi-band EQ, Mid/Side stereo widener, convolution reverb, dynamics compressor, and waveshaper for warmth/saturation.
  - **Spatial mode** uses room simulation — per-scene EQ, early reflections, and matched reverb impulse responses — to recreate the acoustic signature of each location.
  - A/B crossfade architecture means scene transitions are click-free and seamless.
  - The **Effect Intensity** slider blends from subtle to full effect on both modes.
  
  ---
  
  ### Best With Headphones
  🎧 Spatial mode requires headphones for the 3D positioning to work. Sound mode works on any output.
  
  ---
  
  ### Privacy
  SoundControl does not collect, transmit, or store any user data. All audio processing happens locally in your browser using the Web Audio API. No accounts, no analytics, no network requests beyond the video platform itself.

  Your audio. Your way.
  SoundControl gives you two powerful modes in one extension — Sound for shaping and enhancing the audio, and Spatial for placing yourself inside the scene. Switch between them instantly, or let Auto choose the right mode based on what you’re watching.
  Works on YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and Tidal with full Sound and Spatial support. On Netflix, Sound mode and manual POV scene selection work normally — Auto scene detection is limited by DRM, and the extension will let you know. On Spotify and Disney+, DRM may limit audio processing, but your original playback is always preserved.
  SoundControl never silences or interrupts your audio on any platform.
  
  🎛️  Sound Mode — Shape the Audio
  17 presets plus full custom control:
  
  SMART
  ⚡	Auto-Enhance	Analyses your audio in real time, maps the EQ curve, and locks in the optimal enhancement for that specific video. Set-and-forget intelligence.
  
  ENHANCE
  🗣️	Vocal Clarity	Lifts dialogue and vocals above background noise. Great for interviews, commentary, and talk videos.
  🔊	Bass Boost	Deep, punchy low end without muddiness.
  ✨	Bright	Crisp, airy top end. Great for acoustic music and detail-heavy content.
  🎵	Warm	Analog-style richness. Rolled-off highs, full mids.
  📢	Loudness	Fuller, louder sound with controlled dynamics.
  
  SPACE
  ↔️	Wide Stereo	Expands the soundstage beyond your headphones.
  🎬	Cinema Room	Enveloping reverb, deep bass. Movie theatre atmosphere.
  🏠	Intimate Room	Cozy and present, like a small recording studio.
  🌤️	Open Air	Spacious, natural, and bright. Sky above, bass-light.
  
  CONTENT
  🎙️	Podcast	Optimised for spoken word. Clear voice, no rumble.
  🎶	Music Video	Balanced for produced music. Respects the original mix.
  🤫	ASMR	Enhanced binaural detail. Ultra-wide, boosted high-end.
  📻	Lo-Fi	Warm, muted, background-friendly. Tape character.
  
  UTILITY
  🌙	Night Mode	Heavy compression and bass compensation for quiet late-night listening.
  ⚪	Mono Centre	Collapses to mono. For single-ear listening or accessibility.
  
  YOUR SOUND
  🎛️	Custom	Full manual control: Bass, Mid, Treble, Width, Reverb, Compression, Warmth. Your own settings, saved automatically.
  🎧  Spatial Mode — Place Yourself in the Scene
  18 POV scenes across 4 categories:
  
  MUSIC
  🎤	Front Row	Close to the stage. Main sound directly ahead, crowd behind.
  👥	Midfield	Mid-crowd. Stage further away, crowd energy surrounding you.
  🎸	On Stage	On stage with the artist. Monitors and crowd from all sides.
  🎪	Festival	Massive outdoor festival with PA towers. Sky above, bass everywhere.
  🎷	Jazz Club	Small intimate venue. Musicians close, room warmth all around.
  🎻	Orchestra	Concert hall. The full orchestra fills the space below and ahead.
  
  SPORTS
  ⚽	Sideline	Field-level. Action slightly left-front, stadium rising around you.
  🏟️	Stands	Stadium seating. Pitch far below, crowd chanting left and right.
  🏀	Courtside	Right at the court. Action close, arena crowd towering above.
  🥊	Ringside	At the boxing ring. Crowd surrounding from all sides.
  🏎️	F1 Pit Lane	Cars sweep past at close range, engine roar left to right.
  🦅	Aerial	Bird's-eye view. All sound rises from far below.
  
  CINEMA
  🎬	Front Row	Screen towers above you. Audio in the near-field.
  📽️	IMAX Centre	Massive curved screen, surround channels filling the space.
  🎞️	Back Row	Screen distant ahead, room reflections filling the space.
  
  AMBIENT
  🌿	Immersive	Full 360° ambient wrap for nature, ambient, and environmental videos.
  🎙️	Close-up	Intimate near-field for interviews, podcasts, and quiet content.
  ⚡  Auto Mode — Just Turn It On
  
  SoundControl can run completely hands-free:
  •	Auto mode reads the video title and switches between Sound and Spatial automatically — “concert” and “live” trigger Spatial, “podcast” and “interview” stay in Sound.
  •	Auto-Enhance (Sound mode) analyses your audio for ~5 seconds on each new video and locks in the optimal EQ. It adapts to that video, not a generic curve.
  •	Auto-Scene (Spatial mode) detects content type from the title and tracks real-time energy levels to dynamically shift your POV — quiet verse pulls you close, loud chorus puts you in the crowd.
  How It Works
  SoundControl uses the Web Audio API to process audio entirely within your browser:
  •	Sound mode uses a multi-band EQ, Mid/Side stereo widener, convolution reverb, dynamics compressor, and waveshaper for warmth/saturation.
  •	Spatial mode uses room simulation — per-scene EQ, early reflections, and matched reverb impulse responses — to recreate the acoustic signature of each location.
  •	A/B crossfade architecture means scene transitions are click-free and seamless.
  •	The Effect Intensity slider blends from subtle to full effect on both modes.
  Best With Headphones
  Spatial mode requires headphones for the 3D positioning to work. Sound mode works on any output.
  Privacy
  SoundControl does not collect, transmit, or store any user data. All audio processing happens locally in your browser using the Web Audio API. No accounts, no analytics, no network requests beyond the video platform itself.

Permissions & access

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Host access

*://*.youtube.com/*, *://*.twitch.tv/*, *://*.netflix.com/*, *://*.disneyplus.com/*, *://open.spotify.com/*, *://*.vimeo.com/*, *://*.tidal.com/*

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