IMovie 10.0 Audio adjustments

It looks like you can't make audio adjustments to sevenths if clips in a project anymore.
Before you could select the audio to a section if a clip and adjust the volume, but I just can't do it any more?
Does anyone know if it's possible?
Cheers
Ben

**** autocorrect!
That should say 'segments of clip'!

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