It can be used.
The form with по- is more colloquial, and it has a shade of meaning of ’a bit’. «Посветлее» — ‘a bit lighter’, «подешевле» — ‘a bit cheaper’.
I’d say that ‘even louder’ was «ещё громче» or «ещё погромче». Just «погромче» doesn’t have this meaning.
BTW, I don’t understand the sentence