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My name is Ron M and I’m from Sydney, Australia. I’m a professional Sound Supervisor/Audio Director who’s into my fifth decade of ongoing work in the field, mostly live and on location.

I’ve now spent five months using Boom on a daily basis, waiting to discover “the catch”.

In my experience, Boom’s clever multi-band companding (controlled by the “Boom Volume “slider”) rivals that from digital rack-mount systems at around ten times the price, …having adjustment ranging from the truly subtle and transparent “evening-out” of perceived loudness to the harshest imaginable dynamic boosting that’s either for the hearing-impaired, or is a valuable “last resort” for recovering intelligibility from horribly degraded source material.

That tool alone would be worth Boom’s cost, but then, …there’s the absolutely intuitive to operate, (roughly octave-spaced) graphic equaliser that “remembers” user-defined presets.

It boasts just enough sliders to facilitate the rapid “panel beating” of any sound or system in the absence of pink noise and measurement microphone.

Speaking of “absence”, the addition of harmonic and temporal distortion is also notably absent when using this device.

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In over forty years of touring audio worldwide, I’ve experienced nothing that approaches Global Delight’s “Boom”.

Boom stands alone as the “weightless” system that allowed me to instantly turn the “sow’s ear” formed by a large-scale distributed array of “peaky-sounding” ceiling speakers into the smooth-sounding “silk purse” that distributed seamless, top-quality, full-spectrum “dinner music” from my MacBook pro to over a thousand diners…

…And that “Boom Preset” remains, for return engagements.

As for “the catch”…

…I’m still waiting.

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One of our customer, Ron M, shared his experience using Boom volume booster app for the Mac. Ron was generous to provide some photos and said we could share his Boom experience. And why not, we thought of posting it here for everyone to read.

We thank our wonderful customers who provide their support, feedback, suggestions to improve our Mac apps. If you would like to experience what Ron’s talking about, you can try Boom volume booster for free. And if you have your Boom story, do share with us in the comments section!

~Guruprasad

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Today we are releasing updates to Boom – the volume booster and Mac equalizer app, and Voila – the Mac screen capture and recording tool. The updates mainly improve the apps’ quality by way of defect fixes and some improvements in the features. Let’s go through the changes we have made to these Mac apps.

Boom volume booster and Mac equalizer app: Some Boom customers running Mac OS10.7.1 to 10.7.3 experienced some missing UI elements. A quick fix was to update their OS to 10.7.4 or to the latest version and this would have automatically fixed it for them. However, we have now fixed this in Boom v1.7 for those who are yet to update their Mac OS X to the latest version. In addition to this, all Boom lovers would get the following 6 new system-wide Mac equalizers to enjoy with your music/video play:
1. Acoustics
2. Classical
3. Electronic
4. Jazz
5. Pop
6. Rock

Voila Mac screen capture app: This all-in-one screen capture and screen recording app for Mac now sports some new options and defect fixes. Below you’ll find few highlights and you can visit the Voila v3.4 Release Notes for complete change log:

1. Voila Helper: The menu bar icon now enables you to screen-capture or screen-record even after you have quit Voila from your Dock. Voila Helper is an option for you to turn on or off from the Preferences; however, the first time you quit Voila it puts up a prompt on whether to run the app in the background via a menu bar icon presence.

Please note, Voila Helper will run only when you have quit the app while it was running from Dock. Quitting Voila app from menu bar icon will not enable Voila Helper to run and you need to re-launch Voila to perform your screen capture or for other image editing needs.

2. Pause/Resume option during screen recording: This is a new addition to the screen recording feature and this option is provided in the status menu. When you start a screen recording, the ‘Pause Recording’ option gets enabled. You can pause the recording based on your needs and the pause recording option changes its status to ‘Resume Recording’. Any action that you perform on your screen when you have paused the recording will not be recorded till you continue recording by clicking the ‘Resume Recording’ option.

3. Voila audio recording component: This is a separate audio recording component that needs to be downloaded and installed on your system. It is a new component that we have built to improve Voila’s audio recording capabilities from the system. When you start a new video recording, you will be prompted to download and install this Voila audio component. Once installed, ‘VoilaDevice’ would get listed under the Sound Output devices in System Preferences. This is a one-time action and you can un-install this audio component from the Voila Preferences –> Video Recording tab.

4. Other improvements and fixes: Tag auto-completion feature helps to find better matches of tags by providing a drop-down list that was added earlier to other image or video files. Postbox mail client support has been added for you to mail the images/videos directly from the Voila app (go to Voila Preferences–>Export–>Default mailing client drop-down to choose this option). We have fixed defects related to error while saving video with USB device selected as audio input, and also the YouTube login authentication problem is now solved.

These are free updates for all the existing customers. Mac App Store users will get a notification badge on the Mac App Store icon. Hit the ‘Updates’ section on the Mac App Store and download the app updates for free. Non Mac App Store version users would get an update notification prompt (if not, click the ‘Check for Updates’ option manually) to download the free update.

We thank our wonderful customers who provide their support, feedback, suggestions to improve our Mac apps and we don’t forget our Beta users as well. Hope you like the new updates and if you are a first-time visitor to the Global Delight site, you can try Boom volume booster and Voila Mac screen capture for free.

~Guruprasad

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Two times winner of Macworld Best of Show, we are very excited to announce the presence of Global Delight at Macworld/ iWorld 2013, Booth 852. We have some wonderful memories of the Macworld event from previous years where we have received immense love and appreciation. This time we have some amazing prizes exclusively for the attendees. So if you are going, do not forget to visit the Booth 852 to try your luck.

We will be showcasing our apps, with Game Your Video taking the hot seat with it’s latest major update in version 2.0 and going FREE forever.

Boom – volume booster and equalizer for Mac is the Macworld Best of Show 2011.

Game Your Video – the ultimate iPhone video making app is the Macworld Best of Show 2012.

Hope to see you there!

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The MacBook Pro with Retina display has been lauded as the best laptop in the market, boasting of an unparalleled stunning display and all-round performance. Boom lovers have been enjoying the great audio quality and equalizer performance from the Stereo speakers in-built in these Mac notebooks.

Ever since the release of MacBook Pro with Retina display, Boom customers have been asking for an update to Boom’s graphics to compliment the MacBook Pro’s Retina display. This release of Boom v1.6 lets MacBook Pro users finally experience Retina display-quality videos, movies and apps with booming audio, system-wide.

And Boom is now available with localized Help file support in five additional languages: Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish, German and French.

Boom would improve the audio quality from the Mac’s built-in Stereo speakers on the latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro with Retina display and the to-be-released new iMac as well.

This is a free update to all the existing Boom customers. If you have been looking to improve your audio experience of videos, music, games, movies, and communications apps like Skype or FaceTime on your Mac, then you must give Boom a try for free. If you like it, you can buy Boom from the Mac App Store or from the Global Delight store for just $6.99.

We look forward to your feedback and suggestions for the new version of Boom. Hope you like it!

~Guruprasad

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Scare your friends! Scare your kids at their Halloween Party this year by Booing with Boom! Make the next days of October the scariest by booming your favorite scary songs and YouTube videos, frightening films and terrifying TV. Watch AMC’s Scariest webisodes like The Walking Dead or AMC’s annual 19-day Fearfest, which just kicked off this weekend, available for immediate viewing on your Mac through Amazon. Whether it’s zombies, ghosts or ghouls, Boom brings our beloved horror-obsessed creatures to life with the best quality sound for all your movies, videos and music.

You have 16 days left and counting to save big! Boom your Mac for only $4.99 today at the Mac App Store. Offer expires on Nov. 1 and the price will then be $6.99.

~Guruprasad

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