Turn up the volume on the iPhone/iPod Touch, not just on the screen!

This product works as advertised and works well, contrary to several of the reviews stating that the sound is no louder with the app than it is in free air. The developers are now recommending that the user use earphones without a built-in mike, but they are completely failing to point out that you have to use the volume control on the side of your iPhone or iPod Touch to first set the volume! Instead, they offer what appears to be a volume control on the front panel of the virtual device, seducing people into thinking thats the only control necessary.

To use this app, turn the iPhone or iPod Touchs own built-in physical volume control 50% to 75% of the way up, and then use the "Microphone Boost" slider to zero in on your desired volume. With the phones volume sufficiently raised, this app is extremely loud!

The app appears on the screen upside-down to force you to turn the phone around so the microphone, normally pointing down, is pointing up. Keep that in mind when setting the volume: With the phone upside down, up is volume-down and down is volume-up.

(The developers do tell you, in the instructions, to adjust the volume of the "device," but fail to point out they are talking about the piece of hardware in question--an iPhone or iPod Touch--rather than the virtual device on your screen, as a user might naturally assume. They could have saved themselves a lot of bad reviews if they had just done the most minimal usability testing. Handing this app to a non-technical person with the iPhones volume most of the way down as a starting point would have made the problem instantly clear. Five minutes, one person, zero dollars. They would have then had the instructions poll for the name of "the device" and tell the user, "Turn up the volume using the regular volume control on the side of your iPhone....)"

Asktog about Amplitude