Topic: Recording levels - Am I doing something wrong?

[rjp]

Another technique you might consider for dealing with loud clapping is to duck the level down to something more reasonable during the applause. An approach that I use now in Audacity is to create an extra track containing a steady tone, mute it, and use the Auto Duck function on a selected section of audio. It can be a bit fiddly, but I'm liking the results better than chopping off the peaks of the applause, especially so when it's much louder than the music.

[a_doubt]

Thanks to all of you, I found some good advice in this topic 

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To me, the degree of limiting (or compression, EQ, etc) is dependent upon not only what I'm going to be doing with it (web samples, personal listening, professional production), but the target audience.

What we really need is it to become accepted practice to have multiple mixes produced for a given album; a "Car/Radio mix" and an "Audiophile mix."

This is what someone suggested to me in another discussion in another forum. I did not like the idea at first because of the doubled file size and space for it, but after thinking about it again (and while reading here), I think it's a good idea.

[F.O.Bean]

if my recording is dull, or not too loud, i normalize to 0db and then add +2db or so in wavelab 6

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if my recording is dull, or not too loud, i normalize to 0db and then add +2db or so in wavelab 6

[F.O.Bean]

if my recording is dull, or not too loud, i normalize to 0db and then add +2db or so in wavelab 6

Hey, it works

[Gutbucket]

if my recording is dull, or not too loud, i normalize to 0db and then add +2db or so in wavelab 6

Hey, it works

jives with the thread title.