# Reduce volume of audio consumer

**URL:** <https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/reduce-volume-of-audio-consumer/3253>\
**Category:** mediasoup libraries\
**Created:** [September 1, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/reduce-volume-of-audio-consumer/3253 "2021-09-01T16:27:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/reduce-volume-of-audio-consumer/3253/1 "2021-09-01T16:27:15Z")

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Is there a way to reduce volume of audio consumer on mediasoup server?

Regards,  
Amit M

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/reduce-volume-of-audio-consumer/3253/2 "2021-09-01T17:33:42Z")

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On the client you can use set [HTMLMediaElement.volume - Web APIs | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/volume) and use WebAudio APIs to analyse it.

Server side wise I think you need to pipe the stream over to ffmeg or some other util which will take some CPU.