Topic: Best way to handle recording with low levels on music, but crowd hitting 0?

[dank]

So, I typically have been recording nothing but rock & roll shows and have had my levels nice and hot on pretty much every recording I've mastered the  last couple of years.  I used to do lots of editing, but feel like a total noob here as pretty much every tape Ive done the last couple years has been: chop up in CDWav, FLAC, torrent.

I remember some years back, when I was recording more folk music, I had a great plugin by Waves that I used in Sound Forge called L2-Ultramaximzer that I could use to bump up my levels on quiet shows w/ loud clapping/crowd nosie - and the results were quite nice.

What does everyone else do for a recording of theirs where the music has very low levels, usually hitting -18, but there is plenty of clapping/crowd interaction that peaks out?

My Tom Waits tape from Saturday is a prime example of this - would like to do some editing here.

Thanks for any pointers.

[Belexes]

Recent discussion:
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,106292.0.html

[dank]

+T - Not only is that thread bout the same topic, it's the same show.  Small world. 

Go Brewers!

[cbd]

either run soft limit on your recorder if you have it or apply a combination of soft limit and/or compression is post preduction. I use soundforge & its pretty easy