What boosting bass actually does
A bass booster is a set of filters that raise the level of the low end without touching anything above it. This one gives you three bands rather than a single knob, because low frequencies do not all do the same job. Sub Bass at 80 Hz is the weight you feel more than hear — the rumble under a kick drum. Bass at 250 Hz is body and warmth, the range that makes a mix sound full rather than thin. Upper Bass at 500 Hz is punch and definition, the part that lets a bassline stay audible on small speakers.
Each band takes up to 12 dB of boost or cut. That is a large range: 12 dB is roughly four times the perceived loudness in that band, so a small number goes a long way. Preview runs live in your browser through the Web Audio API, which means you can move a slider and hear the change immediately rather than exporting to find out.
How much is too much
Boosting adds level, and level can clip. If the original track is already mastered close to full scale, adding 10 dB at 80 Hz will push the peaks past what the format can represent and you get distortion — usually heard as a crackle or a loss of definition on the loudest passages. If you hear that, cut the other bands instead of pushing one further, or reduce the overall level with the Volume Changer first and then boost.
Small speakers cannot reproduce 80 Hz at all. Boosting sub bass for playback on a phone or a laptop mostly wastes headroom on frequencies you will never hear, while eating into the range you will. For those devices, work with the 250 Hz and 500 Hz bands, which sit inside what small drivers can actually produce.
Tip: Boost less than feels right while you are listening. Ears adapt to more bass within seconds, so a setting that sounds balanced after a minute of tweaking is often noticeably heavy the next day.
Where this fits against the equalizer
The Equalizer covers the same job with ten bands from 32 Hz to 16 kHz and up to 24 dB each, so anything the bass booster does can be done there too. The reason to use this tool instead is speed: three sliders pinned to the frequencies that matter for low end, with no decisions to make about which band to reach for. Use the equalizer when the problem is not only in the bass, or when you need to cut something specific higher up.
Preview happens entirely on your device. Only when you click Apply & Download is the file sent over an encrypted connection to be processed with the gains you chose, and it is deleted as soon as the download finishes.