I do quite a bit of recording of folk music concerts (Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, etc), and I've gotten some really great shows. However, I'm a newbie when it comes to anything other than track marking and normalization. I notice 2 main problems with my shows... 1) clapping at end of songs is loud - although I've seen that the way to fix that would be to use "fade special" in Sound Studio (my app of choice on OS X). The other problem is these folks are great storytellers - so I get very soft spoken word inbetween the songs. What is the best way to bring up the level in these sections without it being too noticeable?
I'd also love to hear from any other "experts" in Sound Studio with any other tips for turning out a really nice sounding recording. My usual process is simply do a normalize, and then mark tracks and save.
Thanks!