i have never really checked as i dont really do anything with my files other than normalize. did it with 3 small files last night all under 1 gig. a 870mb file 568mb after exporting and so on and so forth with the other 2. i checked the output bit depth and it was set too 32 float. i changed it too 24 just to check and getting the same results. doing something wrong?
i had no luck searching online or on here. thanks for any help, ed recording on a mixpre3 line in basic
what version of audacity?
PC Mac or Linux?
Choice of file output format? (wav? FLAC?)
Sample rate (should not matter but I am curious)
ps rather than normalize, I prefer to use the "amplify" plugin to measure the amount of boost up to -1.0 dB or closer to 0 dBfs, and then set the levels right by using the gain sliders before doing my "export multiple"